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-=- Is there an exact expectation that because we choose to live an unschooling life that it will produce a certain type of teen or adult? -=- Keith says an undamaged one. I figure we're avoiding

~~Forcing children to live a parent's philosophy doesn't necessarily produce kids that live those same philosophies and could actually produce the opposite.~~ I would love to explore this more in

Laura, I wanted to pick out this little statement, and try to understand it more. Does your son feel or say that he is struggling? Or is that evaluation coming from your perspective? If you ask him

-=-when my oldest son was 5. I realized he did not know his numbers.-=- He knew the numbers, but not the numerals. I think it's an important distinction, like being a musician without reading music.

" I've been reading about how Deaf kids learn to read - very interesting. Its a huge issue, because schools can't wrap their heads around the concept of reading without phonics. For Deaf kids, the

***Not comics, but kind of cool: my son is learning to read in large part from Signing Time DVDs, which he watches over and over and over. He is hard of hearing and even with hearing aids can only

My husband was recently bemoaning the amount of TV my 10 year old son watches. (To be honest, I have to breathe through it sometimes myself.) A few days ago, I was listening to a show on NPR and heard

My 3rd daughter took off with reading because of Tintin comics. She would pore over them for long stretches, sometimes asking me or one of her older sisters to read to her, sometimes just wanting to

***I'm assuming that by "assist him" you meant you tried to teach him how to sound out words. His brain is probably not ready for that, so it will just be an exercise in frustration and what he WILL

There are four kinds of gates - visual processing, auditory processing, writing problems, and focus/attention. It is just the same old special needs stuff wrapped up in a cutesy package. For the most

Like, somehow you might miss something when you turn your head for a moment, so you'd better catch in now. And, you're right, our culture buys into and feeds those ideas! And what's ironic

What is he interested in reading? Reading is a tool. When my daughter learned to read, she had just discovered Calvin and Hobbes and wanted to read it. It wasn't overnight. She poured over it for

***there seems to be a general theory that our children are constantly in need of enrichment and improvement. I agree that they need stimulating and rich lives, but I don't believe that these

I was thinking about this poor person, stuck in bed with nothing to do but surf the TV day and night for two years? Ignored and lonely? I mean - that's the impression I got, anyway. So TV represents

My kids are still young.my oldest is 8. My mom is visiting and really doesnt understand what we do. She is always wondering why we are not making the kids read each day, or why i dont have spelling

The question you put in your subject line is "how long to wait." Something that helps me when I'm fretting about one of the kids not doing something I wish they were doing, or I have this notion they

----Sometimes people (children or adults) need specific information for a particular purpose. Some objects and information ARE for specific purposes.----- Yes, I think I agree--like how to use a

I wrote: ------Sometimes I think people see a disconnect when looking at an unschooling life in the sense that we, as parents, aren't *supposed* to help our kids develop their deepest interests.-=-

-=-I can't say enough about quality graphic novels for kids who are just on the cusp of reading. -=- Good idea!! Or even plain old comics, online. Kirby liked Garfield books, and those are available

-=-If he's 12, does he do online chats or gaming chats? Does he have a cell phone to text with? Those are really great ways to learn how to communicate with written word, even with shortcuts. If not,