Re: Looking for ideas to help my child during a strict lockdown
This will be so fun to play with. It also reminds me a bit of the game https://www.geoguessr.com/. No music in that one, but it¡¯s full of fun gamified location sleuthing. Sarah Peshek
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Sarah Peshek
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Re: Music map
Thank you Sandra, this is one of the best ressources i've ever seen. Already sent it to my irish/english friends living in France. They used to live in Lisbon, before that San Francisco and somewhere
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Catia Maciel
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Music map
Radio garden.? It's a globe.? It's a map without any markings or borders. http://radio.garden/ It's world music in the most worldwide, up to the moment way I could ever have imagined. I hope it's
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: Looking for ideas to help my child during a strict lockdown
This game/toy/miracle-of-modern-life came to my attention this week.? It's a zoom-in-or-out globe, satellite views edited to remove? clouds or shadows, no political boundaries, no names of
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: Looking for ideas to help my child during a strict lockdown
***I would like to have some more ideas to help Conchinha with her thoughts and fears*** I believe that different people have different ways of working through their thoughts and fears.? Ethan liked
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Karen James
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Re: Looking for ideas to help my child during a strict lockdown
We've? been on no cars, no anything 24 hour lockdown here for over a month now as well. My kids are older, but the mental health issues are pretty universal. It's a very hard time, sometimes I just
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sukaynalabboun
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Re: Looking for ideas to help my child during a strict lockdown
These are indeed tricky times, and as you implied, to begin with when we first locked down it seemed many unschoolers had a real advantage - they were used to being at home and often loved being at
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belinda dutch
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Looking for ideas to help my child during a strict lockdown
Hello everyone! I hope you're all doing as well as possible, during these pandemic times. We're in Portugal and going through a very strict lockdown at the moment, because things were getting
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Marta Pires
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Siblings, sharing, whatif?
Site announcements:??Siblings, sharing, whatif? https://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com/2021/01/siblings-sharing-what-if.html Also a new page not announced yet in that blog, with a sound file, and
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: Our nest
I LOVE that wood floor in the third photo and the wall tile in the last one. To be fair, it's likely that the pictures Cat¨ªa saw were when I was tiling a shower.? I'm embarrassed then to admit that
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Sandra Dodd
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Our nest
Ol¨¢, Would like to share my thoughts with you today. While my daughter was creating art with lunch, in our unfinished kitchen, i was thinking about the proce\ss that allowed me to be so grateful our
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Catia Maciel
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Re: Janitors, McDonald's and Harvard
My mom Told us if we didn¡¯t study we will end up selling potatoes on the street. She wanted us to be engineers and doctors. I wanted to be an?architect and I loved dance and music?but she said
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sannaz karimloo
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Re: Janitors, McDonald's and Harvard
My family discouraged me from attending university. I was told that wasn't necessary- I should find a good husband and stay home. I worked and got scholarships to attend.Oddly, in Lebanon, they laugh
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sukaynalabboun
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Re: Janitors, McDonald's and Harvard
=== And for us, growing up, the threat was Woolworths. "You'll end up stacking shelves in Woolworth's if you don't pass your Maths O Level". === My mother used to say that if i didn't study i would
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Catia Maciel
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Re: Janitors, McDonald's and Harvard
=============================== =============================== For me it was always Cambridge, because Daddy was at Cambridge. I think it's often 'Oxbridge' otherwise . And for us, growing up, the
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Bernadette Lynn
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Re: Janitors, McDonald's and Harvard
== the carrot was "If you study hard you can go to Harvard." I KNOW that offer (made by people who had no power over the admission process at Harvard) was and still is made to kids in LOTS of
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Jo Isaac
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Re: Janitors, McDonald's and Harvard
Harvard definitely has name recognition, but I think it also has prestige; I haven¡¯t googled it, but perhaps it is the oldest Ivy League school, and so perhaps as such?claims?the *most* prestige
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nacho katy
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Re: Janitors, McDonald's and Harvard
McDonalds-That was the actual stick used by my parents, albeit with a facetious edge! I don¡¯t recall them ever dangling Harvard (Harvard was too expensive) but the concept of Harvard as the pinnacle
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tgikristi@...
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#78688
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Janitors, McDonald's and Harvard
When I was a kid in school in the 1960s, the threat was "Study, or you'll have to be a janitor." Last I knew in American schools (maybe further out) it had morphed, by the 1990s, into "If you don't do
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: Unschooling while living with the grandparents
#negativity
Thank you, Sandra. I just wrote a response and it got lost when I tried to insert a link - so my apologies if this is a repeat. Yes, my parents have lived here since I was 18 months old and my brother
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Eleanor Chong
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