I'm home from a New Year's Eve party at Marty and Ashlee's (our middle "child," now 27, and his wife of two years). They live in the house Keith and I were in when we were younger than any of our kids are now, where we lived when our children were young, and where we lived until Marty was nearly 9. There were people there tonight I've known for years and some I just met. Nice people.
It's too late to get a good post together; sorry.
Best wishes for peace and happy surprises!
Sunday, January 1, 2017
Saturday, December 31, 2016
Does TV create violence?
Deb Lewis wrote:
Does TV create violence, really? Maybe guns create violence. Knives. Baseball bats. Hammers. Axes, shovels, saws? Rope? Dynamite? Sharp sticks, rocks? Maybe it's language causes violence because most killers spoke. Maybe it's books. Clothing? Day time night time wind rain snow trees birds frogs.
For lots of kids, even the bad guys on TV are nicer than the real life crazy people they live and go to school with.
SandraDodd.com/t/violence
photo by Tara Joe Farrell
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The page also has this quote:
"There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?"
Does TV create violence, really? Maybe guns create violence. Knives. Baseball bats. Hammers. Axes, shovels, saws? Rope? Dynamite? Sharp sticks, rocks? Maybe it's language causes violence because most killers spoke. Maybe it's books. Clothing? Day time night time wind rain snow trees birds frogs.
—Deb Lewis
photo by Tara Joe Farrell
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The page also has this quote:
"There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?"
—Dick Cavett
Friday, December 30, 2016
A real human being
They learn things that we don't know! It's awesome.
(rephrased slightly for this post, but the original is at the link)
photo by Rippy Dusseldorp Saran
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Wednesday, December 28, 2016
A fascinated adult
Because John Holt was SO interested in children, every time he interacted with one, he saw a child interacting with a fascinated adult. THIS is one of the things unschoolers need to remember. When the adult brings boredom, cynicism, criticism and doubt to the table, that's what he'll see and that's how he'll see it, and it will be no fault of the child's whatsoever.
photo by Lisa Jonick
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Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Associations

Billy the Kid reminds me of my grandmother. She lived in Lincoln County, New Mexico, in the nineteen-tens and a while after, when the events were more recent and richly local. She had been places he had been, and collected articles and booklets about him.
Louise's children remember one castle by giant ice cream cones they had there, and another by lollies.
Any association that help us recall or connect ideas is a useful part of our personal web of knowledge. In school, it is possible to cheat. In school, there is "trivia." In the real world, though, learning is learning.
photo by Louise Mills
Monday, December 26, 2016
Thirty, twenty-seven, twenty-five
All three of my children were here for Christmas. The youngest is twenty-five.
Twenty-five years ago this summer, we did not register our five year old for kindergarten; we registered him as a homeschooler. That's a long time.
I've been explaining unschooling to a growing number of people over all those years. No wonder I'm tired!

The quote is partly lifted from Twenty-five and twenty
photo by Sandra Dodd; window snowflake by Irene Adams (my sister)
Twenty-five years ago this summer, we did not register our five year old for kindergarten; we registered him as a homeschooler. That's a long time.
I've been explaining unschooling to a growing number of people over all those years. No wonder I'm tired!

photo by Sandra Dodd; window snowflake by Irene Adams (my sister)
Sunday, December 25, 2016
Quite small

Appreciate small moments, small gestures, small ideas. Small things make up a rich life.
photo by Colleen Prieto
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