—Sandra Dodd
Marta saved that quote and shared it in 2011. I don't know where it came from.
photo by Gail Higgins
For purposes of helping people see how unschooling can work, advice that seems (though perhaps it wasn't intended) to say that moms shouldn't worry or feel responsible seems headed the wrong direction.
Paula wrote:
I WANTED to be a thoughtful, respectful parent..... I wanted to say yes as much as possible, and respect and enjoy my children for who they are, not who I thought they should be.—Paula F.
automatic doors and scanners and scales and deli ticket machines are and all the different kinds of fish and lobsters andJust live life amazed. 🙂
how many different sounds you can hear when you close your eyes and
the man wearing a polka dot bow tie and
how high up the cereal is stacked (lift her up to get one🙂) and
whether there are more tie shoes or slip ons on the people in the store and
how you can draw pictures on the inside of the glass doors of the freezer after they're opened and they frost over and
whether the different coffee beans and candles and apples smell different and
whether she likes blueberries or raspberries or blackberries better and
how many different kinds of circle cereal there are and
how the different types of potatoes feel and
whether people say Hi when you say Hi to them and
how many different kitties or different types of pets there are on the products in the pet food aisle and
whether the stories in the Weekly World News are true or not (well, maybe for an older kid since at 3 *anything* is possible) 🙂 and
whether you recognize the Muzak version of the song playing and....
"Production" is for factories. Your children are learning and growing. There is nothing they need to "produce."
There's no advantage in looking at what you wish or hope a child will learn. Look at what he learns.