I'm wondering why he's so concerned about his future? Has something
happened recently in his life, so that this is coming up?
I also wonder how wide his world has been since Grade 5? Expanding his
life at home might help with his worry.
Robin B.
Ah.
You're helping his friends to cause him to believe that one has to
"start" the future.
Help him live a rich life in the present. A full life of learning and
joy. That's what unschooling is about, not about hanging out until a
few years after a time when the future is scheduled to start.
People don't "start their future." They live in the present, making
little choices that lead to a better right now.
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http://sandradodd.com/being/
Sandra
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Life started long before I was born. I joined the world already in
progress.
My children came to life at some point, biologically, and were living
their lives from the get go. Whether they are mostly through or in
the early stages, I can't know. But life is being lived now, and will
be in a minute, and tomorrow...
A child who has been unschooled for ten years might have a head start,
in a way, over one who starts unschooling at that point, as to "living
life," IF the parents have been saying "When you grow up..." and
"you're just a kid" very much.
Sandra
Beautiful.
This will help, I think.
Don't think of it as a separate lump of information you need to "get
you head around."
If you have that image and analogy in your head, you will be thinking
there are other lumps of information your child needs to get his head
around. That's not the way learning works.
The way learning works is that you take in and understand one small
part. Then it's part of you. It's part of "your head." When you
learn another little part, it will connect to the first one. When you
understand how those two work, you can connect other parts to them.
The more you know, the easier it will be for new information to "stick."
You don't wrap your mind around it. You understand a little thing,
and connect it to other things you already knew, and then connect new
ideas to those.
Deschooling is partly disconnecting or downgrading the old things you
"knew were true" and filing them as "used to think" so they don't
continue to pop up and scare you.
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Sandra