Success! (Success?) December 3

Let's talk about the idea of "success," in life. http://sandradodd.com/success


We talked about how to think about whether we were doing enough, a few weeks ago. The transcript is here: http://chattranscripts.blogspot.com/2014/11/enough.html

But this week, let's talk about how we might rethink "success" when looking at a child's progress, a teen's "readiness" or an adult's activities.

If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.

Principles of Unschooling, November 26 chat

Principles of Unschooling is a list of principles Pam Sorooshian made. I would like to discuss those.

It's not every possible principle a radical unschooler might need, but it's a great list to help people understand learning in natural ways.

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FOOD chat, November 19

This Wednesday's chat will be on food! So maybe eat before you come, or have a snack at hand. :-)

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"Enough"? chat on November 12

How can you respond to the voice in your head when it asks "Is this enough?"

http://sandradodd.com/enough


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I can't chat November 5 (but you can!)

My sister is coming to town (Albuquerque has "the airport") from Chama (100 miles NW of here), leaving her car with me, and needing a ride to the airport to go to Florida. She has never gone on a vacation by herself. This is big. :-)

So I'm going to take her and hang out a while, and that'a all starting before chat time and ending afterwards.

The room is always there, so if people want to go and just chat about anything at all, that's fine. If you want to leave ideas for some future chat topics, that's cool.

We went through The Big Book of Unschooling, topic by topic. We could do that with pages new to the site, or with my earlier essays (in Moving a Puddle, and most are linked here: http://sandradodd.com/articles
and pages new to the site are listed here: http://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com/
Maybe by looking randomly, there, you might find a topic we haven't done.


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29 October chat on "me time"

This might be a hard one.

It seems harsh to suggest that the more a parent is with a child, the more time she will have to herself, ultimately. It would be harsher to say "Yeah, whatever; you deserve lots of private time," at the risk of breaking some of the bond and trust unschooling needs.

Examples and links to prior discussions might be helpful.

Sorry the notice is late. I forgot! :-)

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Surprise! (October 22 chat)

Think of something that has surprised you in a good way about unschooling, or maybe something your child did or said, asked, drew or built that shocked you in a happy way.

Sometimes we don't need to wait until kids are grown to see big benefits of unschooling.

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