tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12510183.post8788999783594161876..comments2024-02-06T16:06:25.170-07:00Comments on Sandra Dodd: mountain view and radio afterwordSandra Doddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11853107998229753762noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12510183.post-11458100554079112772007-12-20T10:23:00.000-07:002007-12-20T10:23:00.000-07:00Sandra, I moved a pile of ooks and there were the ...Sandra, I moved a pile of ooks and there were the quotes. They can continue to inspire me -<BR/><BR/>"You can't learn unless you feel safe, loved, fed, not cold or hot or afraid..."<BR/><BR/>"[what if] you only have 300 no's in your whole life"<BR/><BR/>"You should be your child's partner, not their adversary."<BR/><BR/>"Keep lives so busy and so varied that learning happens all the time."<BR/><BR/>OK, so there were more than two. It was hard to keep it to just that!Madeline Rainshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05075400838213199585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12510183.post-32568397074126254242007-12-16T08:04:00.000-07:002007-12-16T08:04:00.000-07:00Roger, I'm glad you found this post. It's the opp...Roger, I'm glad you found this post. It's the opposite thing, to choose, than to be forced. "Going to school" isn't what it is. It's choosing. <BR/><BR/>What I would've said if I had been on longer is that I didn't "make" my kids homeschool, I asked each one of them every year for the first several years whether they wanted to stay home or go to school. Every year, each of them chose to stay home.<BR/><BR/>Holly seriously considered going when she was 13, 14, thought about it a lot, asked around, and decided against it. They were not stuck at home against their will, though.<BR/><BR/>The same kinds of damage school does, parents can do at home if they're not careful, and a big one there is making the child feel powerless.<BR/><BR/>At our house we've let the kids make lots of choices since they were babies, and as teens and young adults they're very good at choicemakng. Others their age are still waiting for a chance to just try to make some of their own life choices.Sandra Doddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11853107998229753762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12510183.post-5008331937973138892007-12-15T22:01:00.000-07:002007-12-15T22:01:00.000-07:00Hi everybody, and thank you all for your kind word...Hi everybody, and thank you all for your kind words and even though I don't have a complete understanding of what you are doing I really think I have a beginning of an idea, and I am very jealous your children . How wonderful it must be to have parents like you who are willing to make the education of their children the utmost in their lives that to me being 40 years old from a time when the "Authorities" always new best, and kind of unruly to say the least, I was a Ritalin child, it really makes me think that there is hope for us, as a people yet. My parents really couldn't have cared less what I learned when I went to school which stopped happening shortly after I started high school. So for me, I received, my G.E.D. in my 30's , and now in Community College,in my 40's where I am taking a number of things that interest me and will help me to learn the things that I want to learn, after learning one of the hardest things I had to learn, the fact that nobody but me knows what those things are, but me, and to rely on some one else to tell me what I should like is close to insanity. I am rambling on here but I wanted you to know that the more I learn about what you are doing with unschooling, the better it sounds for everyone involved. So thank you all for your time in letting me go on like this.<BR/> RogerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12510183.post-35484279434638117802007-12-13T09:51:00.000-07:002007-12-13T09:51:00.000-07:00I like Keith's words about undamaged children -- t...I like Keith's words about undamaged children -- the past few days around here have reminded me how very damaging my childhood was. If undamaged is the only benefit of radical unschooling -- and I know it won't be the only one -- that will be enough for us!Sylviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01930798447118770935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12510183.post-18614593732368094952007-12-13T09:13:00.000-07:002007-12-13T09:13:00.000-07:00Madeline, if you want to let me know which quotes ...Madeline, if you want to let me know which quotes you liked enough to save, maybe I could add them to the random quotes generator!Sandra Doddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11853107998229753762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12510183.post-24489594294758356862007-12-13T08:03:00.000-07:002007-12-13T08:03:00.000-07:00I remembered and then fell asleep waiting : ( It s...I remembered and then fell asleep waiting : ( It sound like it would have riled me up and then there would have been little sleep. I love the radio interview that you link to on your other site that is just about unschooling, no debating. I have quotes from it on my desk.Madeline Rainshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05075400838213199585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12510183.post-86503578225002794722007-12-12T19:18:00.000-07:002007-12-12T19:18:00.000-07:00I woke up from a nap frustrated to have missed hal...I woke up from a nap frustrated to have missed half the show, and I was startled by the abrupt cut off. I wished I could have called in to say something about that laziness comment - that there is nothing wrong with making my daughter's and my life as easy as possible, since life can be counted on to have real limitations. <BR/><BR/>I also was frustrated because the word "school" was used two ways - for mandatory schooling of kids, and for tertiary education. I suspect that poor Roger was doing the latter, and the difference was that it was by choice even if he had returned to high school.<BR/><BR/>So many commercials taking up tons of the time. I thought I must have missed tons of it, but from your recap evidently I only missed a few words.<BR/><BR/>Robyn L. CoburnRobyn Coburn Writer/Artisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17118929626629581261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12510183.post-41641537847985898482007-12-12T17:03:00.000-07:002007-12-12T17:03:00.000-07:00I remembered and heard about half of the show. I t...I remembered and heard about half of the show. I thought they cut you off and were pretty rude to you and the caller. It surely wasn't a "fair shake" but I did hear the website mentioned a couple of times and that is good. My goodness that is about all the time they gave you from what I heard. You were a real trooper!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com