Supporting someone or something requires strength and confidence.
Support is holding something up.
Support is upholding something.
Support your child. Lift him up above you.
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Mary Gold wrote:
I used to HATE the resentment of "Why should *I* do this?" and so I just decided to change what I thought about what "this" was and why anyone had to do it. It was a philosophical shift. BINGO! It's the shift that makes all the difference. —Mary Gold
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Yvoire, on Lake Geneva
Be as nice to your child as you can be, as often as you can be. |
Quicker than training a cat not to get on the table, she trained him not to start any books at all.
If you don't think before you act, if you don't consider two options, then you haven't made a choice. If you don't think before you act, you have acted thoughtlessly. |
Unschooled kids are out in the world learning as humans are designed to learn: by gathering in what they observe and pulling understanding from it.
Schooled kids lives are limited. Unschooled kids lives are as big as the world around them. And with the internet and TV, that's practically infinite!
It's easy to see beauty in nature. It's good to learn to see beauty in tables, cloth, air, spoons, socks, switches, handles, doorknobs, words, sounds, air, clouds, breeze, and ideas. |