photo by Cátia Maciel
more context, Always Learning, January 2012
Let's try it, or
I'll help you, or
Okay, yes.
Video (on tapes, discs, YouTube, streaming services) is all made up of pictures, and probably voices, and maybe music. Those, too, are boxes of gifts of stories and ideas.
If you feel stuck, remember the gift of escape into stories of other times and places.
They help people who need help. The people who need help ask for it. These are good things. —Deb Lewis |
For fun, or for practice, be flexible enough to use items for things other than their "intended purpose." In the 1970s, I was told that it's a sign of intelligence, if a person can creatively use an object well for something it was not designed for. |
Sometimes deschooling works best when there are surprising (maybe even shocking) surprises, or stark refutations of what the mom has “guaranteed will happen,” or is positive can ONLY happen—that having candy out all the time will make kids throw up, have cavities, get fat. The stories of kids in the presence of the same old bowl of candy asking for vegetables and fruit are important stories to share. |
Choices can’t happen without choices, and choices don’t happen well with a mom hovering around and predicting negative outcomes. Lots of people have reported that their experiences with food, and unschooling, changed everything. Seeing kids learning about food, and making choices about food, made other choices seem to make total sense. |
Find things that make your children's lives better and that make you and your family feel more calmly alive in the world. |
Baby powder gave me good memories another day.