LJ | unschooling = sharing the wonders of life with your kids
I don't know if this will go through, or if the links will still work, but anyone who is not subscribed to Pam Laricchia's e-mails should subscribe! Her descriptions of the newest podcasts are often
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Sandra Dodd
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A Survey Of Grown Unschoolers
Seventy-five unschooled adults report on their childhood and adult experiences. In a study that preceded the one to be described here, my colleague Gina Riley and I surveyed parents in unschooling
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Emefa Banini <banini@...>
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Re: Dreaming of rooms
Thanks Sandra, It has gotten through now. It's a very informative video. Thanks for sharing Emefa
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Emefa Banini <banini@...>
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Re: Dreaming of rooms
thank you!!? I may have fixed it in the original, but this should go there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxejhk-ez-c&feature=youtu.be&t=2606
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: Dreaming of rooms
Hi Sandra I tried clicking the link to the interviewed by Pam Laricchia but it's not going through. Emefa
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Emefa Banini <banini@...>
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Dreaming of rooms
Two things: Nikki Zavitz, interviewed by Pam Laricchia in early 2020, shared a mental model of unschooling, including deschooling. ?It's wonderful, and there's a link to hear it, below.
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: "How Important is it?"
I feel lonely. ?No one said "Did you wake up yet? ?What are the other parts?" ? ?:-) Now more than a week has passed and I can't remember what the cool other two were going to be, darn it. ?I
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Sandra Dodd
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"How Important is it?"
A couple of interesting things have happened this week¡ªsmall, but related.? Big, philosophically. #3 was coming across this Just Add Light post from a while back.? Please take a look at it, and
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: Schooling and homeschooling
To me, unschooling is the way adults learn. College or classes aside, for a minute. We, as adults, tend to seek out what we enjoy and get curious about. If we want a new career path, we follow it. If
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Stephanie Selby <babelsgp@...>
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Re: Schooling and homeschooling
==Can anyone explain to me the difference between unschooling and homeschooling== In terms of legalities, unschooling is a form of homeschooling. In practice, homeschooling can refer to any number of
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Jo Isaac
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Re: Schooling and homeschooling
Unschooling is a way to homeschool. ?It's a subset. I hope others in the group will bring their own explanations. ?I'll leave a link to a collection of definitions. http://sandradodd.com/definitions
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Sandra Dodd
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Schooling and homeschooling
Can anyone explain to me the difference between unschooling and homeschooling
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Israel Kofi Banini <ikofibanini@...>
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Re: Being asked to leave a place
I am black raising black children who are often snubbed or followed or harassed because of race. We just move on. I don¡¯t spend time or money in such places. We do talk about racism and tokenism. My
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Robin Sallie <rtsallie@...>
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Sweetest Thoughts (and candy)
#partnership
Image by Karen Lundy, in 2016, based on ideas from Joyce's Toolbox cards Message from Sandra to go with it in 2020: ?If eating those could put the ideas, and the words, inside an unschooling parent,
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: Undoing what we know
==I'm hoping some here might want to sort of graph/describe their learning curves, as to "hitting continue" (deciding to learn more about unschooling) and either stepping away, or stepping up and
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Jo Isaac
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Re: Undoing what we know
**I'm hoping some here might want to sort of graph/describe their learning curves, as to "hitting continue" (deciding to learn more about unschooling) and either stepping away, or stepping up and
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Annie
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Re: Being asked to leave a place
-=- A person can feel unwelcome for a host of different reasons. Some may have something to do with others and some may be about yourself. Feelings are not facts. A person can feel unwelcome even
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: Being asked to leave a place
The question was about a shop, not a person who took a job working with children. There are lots of people who work with groups of children, doing planned activities, or activities involving dangerous
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: Being asked to leave a place
I don't know more about the situation myself, and I don't nkow what sort of shop, and what the child was doing. ?Maybe he wasn't doing anything loud or dangerous at all. Some shops aren't good for
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Sandra Dodd
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Undoing what we know
Two things happened this morning already, about this group. One was that when someone on facebook (friend of friend) was asking about unschooling, and a mutual friend asked me to linke this group, I
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Sandra Dodd
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