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***"Viscous" like "gummy and stickily pro-tv"?*** Maybe he or she meant vicious, but that's still a really strange choice of words. If this person thought you "sounded angry" then vicious might have

-=-I'll shut up now and go to bed.-=- When you wake up, I hope you'll keep saying what you're saying. -=I can see how their message can go along with unschooling. But for me, there is nothing more

I have 24 hours a day satellite TV with over 100 channels plus Foxtel IQ which allows me to record programs to watch at my convenience. I've channel surfed all hours of the day, and night. Like

---Without discussing unschooling anymore, you mean?----- No, without having to add all kinds of other "isms" or "nessess" to the equation. I realize my last post wasn't very generous, and I

-=-Why can't we just trust ourselves to trust our kids?-=- Without discussing unschooling anymore, you mean? I trust myself to trust my kids pretty well, but some people don't, and they like the

I wonder if the OP isn't talking about the book "Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting" by the Kabat-Zinns:

--------- It is hard to BELIEVE in the hope schooling offers when you're surrounded by people living "hopeless" existences.--------- Really that is exactly the opposite of what I meant--"It is hard to

when we first got legos for the kids, my husband and I bought the blocks that we remembered growing up. we had both played with legos alot growing up, I had built houses for the little fisher price

-=-viscously pro-tv before.>>> -=-The words "blasé" and "visciously"-=- I thought it said "viciously" at first, too, but it's "viscous." "Viscous" like "flowingly pro-tv"? "Viscous" like "gummy and

<<<I know plenty of people who have a blasé attitude about television, but I've never seen anyone so viscously pro-tv before.>>> The words "blasé" and "visciously" are interpretations of the

-=-I suppose it's _possible_ that there are some kids whose creativity are so weak that giving them a pre-designed Lego set kills it. -=- I can't imagine that. If they're lacking in creativity, then a

So Eric was using the directions for building Lego sets as instructions to get him started and then he reworked from there. That makes so much sense. I've built things and taken a piece off to put

makes it more difficult to see what is false and what is true. Indignation can be a lot of fun, but for the purposes of discussing how learning works, calm clarity is more valuable.<<< I loved school

Mea Culpa! I'm sorry - yes, they do have projects that can be made. I was thinking about the simple and powered machines set we have, which is an older version. However, we also have the eLab set for

I got some Lego Educator sets on gears, pulleys, and so on. We like them a lot, but when we messed around with the gears projects Eric had already figured it all out from doing Lego Star Wars sets

-=- Even the black families whose grandmothers didn't go to school (I'm paraphrasing because I can't find the entry again ;>) can unschool, but they choose not to because of the "promise" that an

________________________________ From: Rebecca McClure <ackirebecci@...> Yes, we have a few of them kicking around. And we have Mindstorms, too. Mindstorms is a sizable step up as it does

***And I appreciate your suggestion of finding some other form of entertainment, however I really wasn't talking about how tv effects adults, although I believe it does. I was talking about its

"People, parents especially, have been led to believe that they lack the knowledge to do something--anything-- without an expert (or institution) leading the way. School has been touted as the great