photo by Tessa Onderwater
Friday, March 8, 2024
The cool thing is...
photo by Tessa Onderwater
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Paths and choices
"Your role isn't to set up a path for them to follow but to set up the environment for them to explore."
—Joyce Fetteroll
photo by Sandra Dodd
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
More important
Melissa Raley wrote:
My daughter asked me to play a computer game with her and I told her that I "had" to clean the kitchen first. I got halfway between the computer and the kitchen, stopped, turned around, went back, told her I was sorry that the kitchen could wait, and played her game with her. She was so happy that I didn't care if the dishes rotted in the sink! 🙂 She only played for about five minutes but, I know that it will stick with her, that I found HER more important than the housework.
—Melissa Raley
photo by Jo Isaac
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
More peaceful and fun
Debbie Harper wrote:
When the environment is contributing to a child's anxiety, improve the environment, rather than seeking to improve the child.
If you make your home-life more peaceful and fun, anxiety will lessen without any need to venture away from unschooling into the land of rewards and punishments.
Working to make the home more peaceful and happy has helped lots of families heal, and flourish with unschooling.
—Debbie Harper
photo by Roya Dedeaux
Monday, March 4, 2024
Helping them share
The problem I see with measured turns is that the quality of game play is compromised. If someone sees the clock and that's when they have to stop, they won't play as thoughtfully. They're less likely to look around at the art or appreciate the music. If they're starting to read, they're less likely to take a moment to look at the text and see if they can tell what it says.
The benefits of game play will not come to full fruition if kids' time is measured that way, and they're not learning to share.
If they only have an hour, they will take ALL of that hour, just as kids whose TV time is limited will.
It they can play as long as they want to, they might play for five or ten minutes and be done.
photo by Sarah S.
Sunday, March 3, 2024
The world opens up
Joanna Murphy wrote:
With trust, the world opens up, horizons expand and life can seem exciting and limitless. Without trust, the world shuts down, gets narrow and petty.
I want more expansiveness in my life, not less.
The expansive quality of trust grows out from the center to touch every part of our lives. Trust that we ARE capable and that we will, through our honest endeavor, figure out a way. Trust that our children will find, ask or be provided with what they need, trust that they are in connection with us by their own choosing and free will—not through "enforcing." And trust that they will grow up loving and caring and interesting people without being "taught."
—Joanna Murphy
photo by Cátia Maciel
Saturday, March 2, 2024
Clear language, clear thoughts
Rhetoric and terminology can masquerade as thought or as progress. There are a few terms (and a very, very few) that have been used for many years in unschooling discussions, and they don't seem to have been harmful, nor to have had simple equivalents:
photo by Denaire Nixon
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