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Re: Diagrams about connections #connections
My own demo of different ways to see the same thing, based on an example in the book Trust the Children: A Manual and Activity Guide for Homeschooling and Alternative Learning by Anna Kealoha.
By Sandra Dodd · #78645 ·
Re: Diagrams about connections #connections
Adam Daniel's, on How I Learn: ?Some things I have learned from Pok¨¦mon ( https://sandradodd.com/adamlearns , where you can click through to larger images if you really want to study them)
By Sandra Dodd · #78644 ·
Re: Diagrams about connections #connections
Pam Laricchia's (which I have saved here: https://sandradodd.com/pamlaricchia )
By Sandra Dodd · #78643 ·
Diagrams about connections #connections
Because we can put images in here, and I came across a couple of pages with graphic representations of connections (by Pam Laricchia, and by Adam Daniel (with his mom's help), years back), I will
By Sandra Dodd · #78642 ·
Chores, by Joyce, written for mainstream parents #outcomes
Joyce Fetteroll is writing at Quora, and though unschoolers will read it (if they're lucky, or if they're following Joyce around :-) ), but she is summarizing what she developed, discovered, and
By Sandra Dodd · #78641 ·
Re: Helping kids be respectful
https://justaddlightandstir.blogspot.com/2019/03/protect-peace.html A Just Add Light and Stir post I was working on has a quote about protecting one's children from each other (mine, anyway :-) ) and
Re: Helping kids be respectful
Treating someone with respect doesn't mean treating everyone the same, or even the same as you would like to be treated yourself. Respect means understanding their boundaries and how they like to be
By Annie · #78639 ·
Re: Helping kids be respectful
-=-What am I missing here? Am I projecting my own feelings in these situations? Am I wanting this other girl to be the friend she likes most because *I* find her more pleasant?-=- I would disregard
By Sandra Dodd · #78638 ·
Re: Helping kids be respectful
PS: I forgot to say that this thread reminded me of this situation because the boy's mum in the story above was prioritising the child's autonomy/freedom and her desire to treat him with respect. And
By Rachael Sanya · #78637 ·
Re: Helping kids be respectful
====...?but they don't swear at people. Not even their friends. It's hurtful, upsetting, makes people feel threatened or bullied, and doesn't help them like you more. If something will make you look
By Rachael Sanya · #78636 ·
Re: Helping kids be respectful
============================ Treating someone with respect doesn't necessarily mean accepting any behaviour without question. Some feelings are better not expressed, or at least in ways that are
By Bernadette Lynn · #78635 ·
Re: Helping kids be respectful
I think having "equality" as a goal has the same problems as "freedom."? If it's not true, there's no sense claiming it. And as to partners, if one partner says "fuck" to someone else, the
Re: Helping kids be respectful
I think I see the reasoning. He¡¯s saying treating everyone the way he would treat a peer (equal) with what he considers respect is treating people with respect. If he has to treat someone better
By Joyce Fetteroll · #78633 ·
Re: Helping kids be respectful
-=- My question is there is now some confusion on my son's part & my own what this equality looks like at times. -=- "Equality" might not have been a good goal to have.? You're not equal to him
By Sandra Dodd · #78632 ·
Helping kids be respectful
I hope people will help brainstorm this, but new members who aren't longtime unschoolers, hang back and just read. There were two names.? I took one out and changed one, so it could be anonymous.? I
By Sandra Dodd · #78631 ·
"educatin'" (someone asked me about...)
A question was asked under a post at Just Add Light and Stir, in 2012.? I'm working through all the old posts, and finding some interesting old bits, and some beautiful posts I had forgotten about.
By Sandra Dodd · #78630 ·
Social Growth (from London, 2009)
*Every person we mention unschooling to for our child seems most concerned with his social growth, i.e. how will he learn how to be with other people without going to school. What is your response to
By Sandra Dodd · #78629 ·
Re: The importance of eye contact :-) (from 2009, London)
I think eye contact is also important for the parents, especially with infants. I was usually less stressed or frazzled when I had either physical and/or eye contact, especially in social/public
By Dena Morrison · #78628 ·
Re: The importance of eye contact :-) (from 2009, London)
Our pushchair had a carseat that attached to it that faced backwards, so when mine were very little they went in that and could make eye contact; when they got too big they were forward-facing or I
By Bernadette Lynn · #78627 ·
The importance of eye contact :-) (from 2009, London)
*Eye contact¡ªmany reasons for lack of it, but as parents we may have to encourage buggy manufacturers to design them with the baby facing the mother, at least up to the first year.* Brits were using
By Sandra Dodd · #78626 ·