When we send a child off to school it separates them from us, from their family, for much of the day five days a week. This reduces our influence on our own children and increases the impact of the government, which is why I frequently call public schools "government indoctrination centers". When we stop sending them off to school it brings them back into our family in a big way, while cutting out the influence of those government indoctrination centers. But there may be some adjustments in our attitudes that need to be made along the way it seems to me. Homeschooling means involving our children (or in my case grandchild) much more intimately in our lives.
The idea that we can do a set number of things and then they go away is not one we can keep up in this project. We can't feed them, play with them a bit, maybe teach them for a couple of hours and call it good. No, they are involved in our whole life, pretty much morning to night. In our situation there are a couple of days a week when Serenity will need to go to daycare but other than that she is constantly with us and interacting continually with us, we talk and play and hug and are together all day long. Serenity is even willing and eager to forgo watching cartoons on TV, she would much rather be with me and with her mom. Normally she would get up and say, "can I watch cartoons?" first thing in the morning. Since I changed my attitude a bit toward the unschooling direction she has not asked to watch cartoons at all!
So far this experience has been wonderful for me! I can't imagine anything giving me more joy. I'm not so sure Lora is finding as much joy in it as I am, as of yet, but I'm sure she'll come around. ;-) Serenity herself is clearly responding in a joyful way to the new situation. She has noticed that grandpa is more prone to say "yes" and to ask her what she feels and thinks and wants, she really likes that aspect of this so far. It shows in her face and in her behavior already, I am convinced this was the right decision for her, and for all of us.
The idea that we can do a set number of things and then they go away is not one we can keep up in this project. We can't feed them, play with them a bit, maybe teach them for a couple of hours and call it good. No, they are involved in our whole life, pretty much morning to night. In our situation there are a couple of days a week when Serenity will need to go to daycare but other than that she is constantly with us and interacting continually with us, we talk and play and hug and are together all day long. Serenity is even willing and eager to forgo watching cartoons on TV, she would much rather be with me and with her mom. Normally she would get up and say, "can I watch cartoons?" first thing in the morning. Since I changed my attitude a bit toward the unschooling direction she has not asked to watch cartoons at all!
So far this experience has been wonderful for me! I can't imagine anything giving me more joy. I'm not so sure Lora is finding as much joy in it as I am, as of yet, but I'm sure she'll come around. ;-) Serenity herself is clearly responding in a joyful way to the new situation. She has noticed that grandpa is more prone to say "yes" and to ask her what she feels and thinks and wants, she really likes that aspect of this so far. It shows in her face and in her behavior already, I am convinced this was the right decision for her, and for all of us.
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