photo by Roya Dedeaux
Saturday, June 22, 2024
Unschooling's "educational supplies"
photo by Roya Dedeaux
Friday, June 21, 2024
Connecting and learning
Everywhere we go, we meet women who have loved their Barbies, young babysitting-age girls, grandmas with collector editions, women at the toy store commenting how they still love to get their Barbies out. Barbie-lovers are everywhere! Who knows when this shared interest will help them connect with someone down the road?
Who would have imagined - design, construction, dramatic narrative, social skills, a little bit of history mixed in - it's really a wonderful learning experience!
—Kelly Shultz
photo by Karen James
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Thursday, June 20, 2024
Hale and whole
photo by... someone with Cátia Maciel's camera maybe
(photo sent by Cátia Maciel)
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
...never say "having screentime"
—Virginia Warren
photo by Janine Davies
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Pets
photo by Sandra Dodd, of a stile in England
for humans and dogs
(Officially, humans over and dogs through, though I'm sure young children love going through. This was not farmland.)
Monday, June 17, 2024
Purposes and choices in the moment
I didn't say "live your live with a purpose," though. Not a singular overriding goal that would cause any other outcome to be failure. That's what some people mean when they say "a purpose," but I didn't say "a purpose." It makes a world of difference.
I was talking about individual situations, projects, days, ways to decide. Not about a whole life.
People do that with decisions, too, sometimes. When we talk about making decisions within unschooling discussions, it's not something like "I made the decision to be an unschooler." It's small decisions in the moment, right before each action or response, about what to have for lunch, where and how and why.
photo by Janine Davies, of a stile in England
Sunday, June 16, 2024
Teens can feel crowded
Baby birds have no idea what's outside that nest.
Young children will occasionally find some corner of the house, some closet or a wall surface that was always covered by furniture before and they are not surprised that there are parts of that house they had never seen before. The house is everything.
Teenagers know they are meant to get up and go out. They're not happy about it, sometimes, especially when their house is a haven of love and sweetness and creativity, but their instincts kick in anyway and their perspective changes, very literally, and that nest seems like just a little wad of sticks on one little branch of one of ten thousand trees....
Crowded by their new awarenesses and raging hormones and their relative size (their rooms and beds are getting smaller by the day) and their collections of stuffed animals and action figures and Lego.
Sandra
(January 2000, with one teen and two pre-teens then)
photo of Holly Dodd on her way to a party
This photo was in the Just Add Light folder for many, many years, waiting for a quote or topic it might slightly match.
Good enough.
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