Ask Naomi: Preschool or Not? by Naomi Aldort
What do you recall from age
four? If you are like most, you remember close to nothing. What you recall are
feelings, sensations, faces and fragments of visuals. Nothing you know today
relies on what you learned in these early years in a class or a school. Instead,
it relies on how you felt about yourself.
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from Natural Life magazine.
The Educator's Secret and Modern
Stupidity by Daniel Grego
Several years ago, a distraught mother who knew I
was an “educator” called me in tears. She had just come from a
parent/teacher conference where she had been informed by her son’s
kindergarten teacher that he was “four months behind.” (In
kindergarten!) She imagined her son’s future possibilities slipping away
and hoped I could give her some advice, or at least some sympathy. “Is
there anything I can do for him?” she wondered.
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How Unschoolers Learn to Read by Alan Thomas
Researchers Alan
Thomas and Harriet Pattison talk about their work in the field of unschooling and invite participation in their new research
project on how life learners learn how to read. Read more.
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Rocks the Boat by Wendy Priesnitz
Some people think, stereotypically, that women who choose to work at home so
they can facilitate life learning for their children are regressively
un-feminist. This article explores why unschooling is the ultimate feminist
act...and will lead to a better world in many ways.
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more from Natural Life magazine.
The Wellsprings of Memory by David
Albert and Joyce Reed
The richness of the mental and emotional associations that are created
throughout our lives and that we carry around in our brains (or as we like to
say metaphorically, in our bones) constitutes the wisdom which comes from age.
When we are young, we set down templates – or the wellsprings of memories that
influence who we are as adults. Read the latest "What Really Matters" column and
contribute your list of the wellsprings of memory that you hope your children
will carry with them into adulthood. Read more.
