Re: Why not let kids be kids?

["ElsaHaas" <ElsaHaas@si.rr.com>]

Peter, I agree wholeheartedly. 

Bridget, have you ever considered homeschooling? We homeschool (actually,
unschool) our eight-year-old son, and we love it. 

Maybe you have considered it, and there's some reason you don't think it
would be a good idea, or maybe it seems impossible (financially,
sanity-wise, whatever). But others have gone before you, and figured out
solutions to all sorts of challenges.

Homeschooling doesn't have to fit the stereotype (whatever your stereotype
of homeschooling might be). Unschooling, for example (it's a form of
homeschooling) doesn't match the public perception of mom at a table for six
hours every day with the kids, working through textbook problems (I wouldn't
do this if I had to do THAT).  

If you'd like to talk more about this option, please contact me (off-list or
on-). Maybe if you're afraid for your children, there's a way to meet that
fear - and thrive.    

Elsa Haas

-----Original Message-----
From: arn-l-owner@interversity.org [mailto:arn-l-owner@interversity.org] On
Behalf Of Bridget Kraemer
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 2:50 PM
To: arn-l@interversity.org
Subject: Re: [arn-l] Why not let kids be kids?

"...in the absence of open, unstructured play, when will children learn to
share? When will 
they learn to cooperate? When will they learn [...]"
   
  This is the very thing I'm afraid of for my children.  They will be
entering kindergarten next school year and I'm very anxious about what to
expect from our school system.  [...]   
  Bridget Kraemer