2011 - Talk Birth

talkbirth (2011-09-30 07:56:49)
I’m glad, Laurel! I don’t meet a lot of grown up homeschoolers so I hoped it might be helpful to hear from one.
smithlaurel (2011-09-29 20:01:04)
I loved reading this, Molly! What wonderful insight into the formation of you. And what tremendous encouragement
to this home educating mama. Thanks!
talkbirth (2011-09-30 07:53:33)
That is what I saw in a lot of my college classmates too.
talkbirth (2011-09-30 07:55:17)
I didn’t know that was your college experience too, Molly! Interesting. Did you tell people your age ”secret”?
talkbirth (2011-09-30 07:52:21)
Yes, you’re right and we’ve talked about that before. My own always public parents are always ”productive” and
full of ideas too. It is probably inherited! I guess when I think about this, what I really mean that I’ve met a lot
of formerly public-schooled people who seem very ”passive”–like they don’t know what to do with themselves unless
someone is telling them what to do. I’m not like that. At. All.
JMT (2011-09-28 22:23:12)
That was really fascinating! Thanks for taking the time to write it all out. I had what I generally consider to be a
positive public school experience from grades 6 through 12, but the farther I get from it the more ambivalence I feel.
I think one of the worst outcomes for me is a really-hard-to-shake mental association between ”I’m learning a lot” and
”I’m impressing the teacher” so that I only believe/feel the former if the latter obtains. Not a good thing! Coming
back to do my MPH after a few years and a lot of personal changes has been good - I am much more self-motivated
and engaged with my own learning processes. It just makes me wish that it had always been that way - I feel I missed
a lot of opportunities to truly LEARN in college due to the mindset I carried over from high school.
Barbara (2011-09-29 07:58:32)
Very validating from the standpoint of this homeschooling parent!
Hope (2011-09-29 17:02:46)
Very encouraging for a currently unschooling mama. I have to say that this... ”...impact on my experience of motherhood
now, which not infrequently does not allow me to do what I want to do when I want to do it, and I chafe a
little at those restrictions on my autonomy and all of my billions of ideas.” is also true for this always public schooled
mama. When I’m in the moment of mothering I’m okay with it but when I’m doing my own thing and feel interrupted
I definitely get agitated or resentful about it. We have discussed that we have some other similar personality traits
and I’m not sure this is at all about being unschooled and think it is just about being you.
Homeschooling Today (Part 2 of 2) « Talk Birth (2011-09-30 14:48:48)
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Chrissy Grainger (2011-10-01 00:25:34)
Thank you for sharing Molly, what a wonderful testament for homeschooling, can’t wait to finish part 2. I have a
friend on facebook that was homeschooled and is also homeschooling or unschooling her children, you should look her
up, Guggie Daly
Sierra (2011-10-03 10:19:54)
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing and yes, I did read the entire post. The more and more and more I read about
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