Mo Shuile Togam Suas

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 seems to [...]

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“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 time [...]

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A few years ago I got quite interested in the way boys are floundering in school compared to girls.    Here’s a short article at PBS — Boys in School which summarizes some of the recent findings.    Another recent article The Trouble with Boys says
In elementary-school classrooms—where teachers increasingly put an emphasis on language and a [...]

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