They have lost confidence in everything: Their neighborhood. Their kids. And their own ability to teach their children how to get by in the world. As a result, they batten down the hatches. Cindy quoted that in a post on the “free range” theme called Don’t Get Me Started. She made the point that driving [...]
I don’t quite have the energy for a Sierra Highlight this week, so I’m just going to log down a few things that are going on. General State of Things: We all are in various stages of a cold. Sean and Kieron came down with it while we were travelling (and Sean was here). [...]
I am really zipping through these old papers — well, not really, because every time I write one up I spend about 20 minutes on it. Which makes for about 5 minutes per page. Not zipping, then. Considering that I have a box full of papers, I am probably not making much progress at [...]
Another one from the files: Childhood Trauma by Alice Miller, a Polish born psychologist born in 1923. She makes the case that horrific murderers and tyrants were practically always abused children. I am not sure why I printed this out several years back, but it is certainly disturbing reading, and fits in with several [...]
Another one from North Carolina Unschoolers — From School to Unschool (pdf) — about one family’s transition from school, to “school at home”, to unschooling. Also, Children and Deficits (pdf) This one brings up something I’ve thought about many times. … about “when” and “if” special therapy is required in specific cases. Our mainstream [...]
“Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?”—- Luciano Pavarotti Another article from my printed-out files can be found at the North Carolina Unschoolers site. It is called Confronting Fear (pdf). I don’t remember exactly why I printed it out originally, but it was probably during the [...]
Yes, that is the title of a John Denver song, and yes, we did listen to it on the Ipod during the journey. My children seem to be into surveying pop music from the 40′s to, well, the 80′s when Kevin and I basically stopped listening to new artists. John Denver was too much for [...]
