An article from earlier this year: Games blamed for moral decline and addiction throughout history October 9, 2019 9.05am

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 03:09 PM, Sandra Dodd wrote: I've done it in person, about medieval virtues, and it worked great. I've done it in discussion groups, and gotten some wild and hateful

#3 When differences of opinion arise, stick to discussing ideas, not the person with whom you are disagreeing. _______________ I think this is the big one, the pivot point, the deal breaker, the

I'm repeating this from elsewhere. Before too long the topics won't be next to each other anymore. :-) ____________ Critical thought—I want to talk about how people can use what they already

______ Separate from that, I wanted to point out one of those things that reveals ideas the author probably didn't even now she was thinking. I love that, about the sort of writing people do when

Some aspect of the original questions are touched on in this recent Living Joyfully podcast: https://livingjoyfully.ca/blog/2019/11/eu204-qa-with-anna-and-pam/#comment-746486 When I heard the third

Still from #2, People complain "you're too critical." If they came for support, they want to be "supported." If they came for affirmation, they want to be affirmed. They should have come to learn

On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 10:58 AM, Sandra Dodd wrote: 2 Expect your beliefs to be challenged. Welcome this as an opportunity to critically examine your own ideas. My continuation of the

I remember when my kids were the ages yours are, I felt the same way. I had always wanted to homeschool, and then we just went along the school path (starting first with a Waldorf thing) and because I

My daughter was asked last year if she celebrates Christmas. She said yes, then the girl asked if she gets presents. Another girl said 'Of course she does, everyone gets presents'. The first girl

Housekeeping note first: I deleted the response from me that quoted the first post. It was there so those reading by e-mail would see it. I think it still will have gone to everyone's e-mail, and

Hi Always Learning. I am very new to this group and to unschooling, and have never sent a post. Hope it works. When my daughters were 0.5 and 3.5, I remember talking to a veteran unschooling mother,

I want to go through those points individually and expand, and invite others to tell stories of their usefulness, too. This used to be understood better, I think—that if someone joined a group, it

In cleaning up the old apartment house, as it was, before its demolition, I'm going through yahoogroups, saving some descriptions, leaving forwarding-mail notices (figuratively), and I ended up in the

Two things, one about having a peaceful home, and the other about this group getting smoother. I think the settings are such that once a person has had a post approved, their subsequent posts won’t

I get a lot of "but what about college" type statements. My go to response is "Well I was homeschooled and I started college at 16 without any problems." That separates things pretty quickly into

-=-Can I still donate? Was a bit behind all this!! -=- If you really want to, I will gratefully accept it. The link is on my main page all the time, resting quietly. :-) But as to the pass-the-hat

We all say really dumb things when our brains aren't quite in gear. I wonder, though, if the lines between what children learn at home and what they learn at school get blurred more and more now that

Can I still donate? Was a bit behind all this!! Rachel Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

Funny you should mention how the school system forces them into conformity. A family friend, who used to work in school(and whose mum used to be a teacher), asked how my daughter was going learn to