More re-tread, with apologies, from another list. The address of that list is at the bottom, and the message # if anyone here wants to go and read more of a past discussion on this.  Msg #

We have a family business, and both my dh and I work at home. This relates to allowances because our dd (4.75) brought it up this way. Just a few days ago she told me that she was old enough to be

<<Does anyone have any info or links about unschoolers who went to college or got a really good job?>> <<The unschoolers I know are not wholly grown, still teens... Sandra>> Did you forgot about

<<Tv lowers the brain waves to the pre-sleep state, so things that are going in hypnoticcally and it's really hard to make a conscious choice to turn it off. >> but I haven't seen it seem true with

Yes it's addictive personality and tendancy. I have the same problem. I will keep at it till I have a headache or am kicking myself over the time wasted when I wanted to get something else done.

**How do you involve kids in these kinds of discussions? If money = power in this society, then how do we reverse this trend in an unschooling family? Who gets to decide what we can spend money on

**Our unit holds about 35 hours, I hear the current models hold 80 hours.** Hi, Dan -- We just got the Dish Network PVR and it says 100 hours. The first time we tried to record something the

I was looking for what I had written about pornography and Marty, and found this instead. I'm still looking for the other one and will bring some of it here rather than try to remember and write it

I can see your point about the specific definition of the word ban, and perhaps in our case boycott or abstaining would be a better choice. However I think the original question was about

**Just two days ago Holly mentioned about some movie (she's asleep and I dont' remember which) "Yes, but it doesn't have any kids in it." So she still pretty much prefers movies about kids, or at

Funny thing, but my 5 year old son's all time favorite movie (has been for about 2 years) is Dirty Dancing (which he calls "Baby" after Jennifer Grey's character.) He doesn't get squirmy or turn

themselves. I love watched because what awaited me. You continue to watch tv/stay online past the point that you want to do so? If I have that right that's pretty interesting. What was your tv

on 10/18/03 2:05 PM, Nanci Kuykendall at aisliin@... wrote: It's not a ban if a child decides not to watch something. It's a *good* thing to help kids recognize what effect the world has on

Well for us tv is not about money but more about family preferences and comfort levels, as I explained. We cannot afford cable right now, but we stopped watching tv when we could still afford it.

on 10/18/03 1:13 PM, SandraDodd@... at SandraDodd@... wrote: I had problems as a child turning off a show -- even one that I recognized at the time as pretty low brow like Lost In Space -- in

Oh this is so funny and EXACTLY what I was going to post about. I had this ah-ha "Southpark" moment last night while watching the VH- 1 special on the creators of SP. I have never really watched SP,

My son get 5 euros a week, which is now something like $5.50. We had the same experience of him wanting to spend it all the first couple weeks, and then learning to save towards something he wanted

on 10/18/03 12:13 PM, SandraDodd@... at SandraDodd@... wrote: Yes. I do think there is something about the electronic media themselves. I love television and movies and the computer, but I

Hi! Welcome! I've never seen any flaming on this list, ever. We're all grown ups here. Well we don't have any pornography in our home, but we do have some movies with pretty explicit love

Julie (jlist@...) wrote: <<We visit my parents there several times a year. Did you grow up in Jamestown?>> Dawn wrote: <<I did. Went to ps here. I graduated in '78.>> I graduated