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Originally Posted by carenkh  I'm a single, working mom. I am creating the life I want, in every moment. I've been a single, working mom for 6 years.
I choose to live in joy and appreciation for what is, and lots of trust in the future. Fear doesn't have a place in my life. I parent in the now, and guess what? It's helping create a couple kids who have awesome futures!
Having known several unschoolers who returned to school - either by choice, or because there really wasn't another option - I know my kids will be fine should anything like that happen. Even more fine, because of how well they know themselves, how much they trust themselves, how loved they know they are.
This IS real life. We are living very real lives. They're not waiting for real life, they're in it. |
Actually, they are living the life that you made, and the people they interact with are people like you. You said it your self, that you attracted those types of people, and have trouble getting along with parents that think opposite. Imagine how your kids will fare when they have to interact with people who grew up completely opposite of them?
But honestly, this is like arguing with parents about indoctrinating their kids in religion. You've had so much practice coming up with a defense strategy ( because anyone who goes completely radical in one direction will be pretty fluent in defending them selves), that I would be hard pressed to figure out an offense strategy for it, just because I only today learned about unschooling. It's easy with religion. They have a handbook full of stuff for me to use against them. Show me your handbook, and I'll be glad to tear it apart as well.