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Archive for August 7th, 2006

Movies and Music and Miscellaneous

Posted: Monday, August 7th, 2006 @ 9:52 pm in Journal, Living and learning, Plans and Ideas | Comments Off

I have gotten behind on updating my journal here. Partly it is because our days seem to follow a fairly predictable pattern, so I was finding myself writing the same sorts of things again and again. I think in future, unless we get into a very different pattern of life, I’ll focus more on the [...]

More about “Shoulds”

Posted: Monday, August 7th, 2006 @ 9:16 pm in Thinking about Learning | Comments Off

I was thinking more about the topic of “shoulds” or “have-to’s” that I brought up yesterday, when I wrote: Why do I go through life listening to internal voices tell me I “should” or “shouldn’t” do this or that? Should is such a weak, carping word. I realized that if I do something because I [...]

Unschooling and Reflecting On How to Live

Posted: Monday, August 7th, 2006 @ 4:07 am in Big Picture, Thinking about Learning | 4 Comments »

We were having visitors and travelling last month and so I missed out on writing an entry for Unschooling Voices #2. Besides, I wasn’t sure if I had anything to write… Ron wrote it all out for me at Atypical Homeschool in a post called Unschooling and Parenting. Like Ron and Andrea, my husband and [...]