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Topic: Newbie - EmmaMelissa Lake <meli...@gmail.com> Sep 22 07:26AM -0700 ^
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Hi Emma,
I love that when your son was 3 he refused to go to school because they
wouldn't let him wear his Superman costume! That's my kinda kid!! I have 2
bio boys (15 and 13) and a daughter from China (7). How fun that you live
in Manhattan! My brother, sister in law and niece live in Jersey City and
SIL works for MTV in Times Square. We live in Arizona and absolutely LOVE
to visit. What a fun place to live. My daughter and I spent a week there
in July and the humidity about killed me. I thought since I'm used to 110+
most of the summer, a little humidity wouldn't be a big deal. Haha. My
daughter and I took the ferry from Hoboken to Manhattan on a Sunday and
walked to the Build-A-Bear store so she could find a friend for her bear
Alice, who is from Phoenix. So she now has Alice from Phoenix and Alice's
best friend, Alicen, from Manhattan.
My kids have never been in school and when we started out, we were
homeschoolers. We gradually moved toward unschooling and have been
unschooling now for the past 3 years. I'm most active on the
unschooling-dotcom site:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unschooling-dotcom/?yguid=321209154
Melissa
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That might help you with seeing what kind of process it is. There's a process to get to the process, even, but at some point it becomes the way you think, and then the way you live.
-=-Are your kids thinking about college? Does that make them more focused (not to say they weren't -- I am just asking)?-=-
Focus isn't a good goal, with unschooling. Not for the kids. For the mom, for a while, perhaps, to learn how to get away from hoping her children will "focus." But the advantage from learning from and in the real world is that it's expansive. It's as big as everything, literally. :-)
Rather than be overwhelmed by that, though, live in the moment, practicing making little choices that bring you incrementally nearer to the way and the place you want to be. Today's "Just Add Light and Stir" happens to be about that!
http://justaddlightandstir.blogspot.com/2011/10/eliminate-half-world-in-good-way.html
Sandra
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Sandra
Emma