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Why Take the Risk? Beverley Paine Most people think that at best schools educate and socialise children and at worst cause discomfort and bad memories for others... This is not the case. As Linda Dobson so aptly puts in on her Parent At the Helm blog,
In her article Schooling Causes Psychic Damage Lasting Into Adulthood Linda highlights the findings by Dr. Kirsten Olson, author of Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing up to Old School Culture, an educational researcher, activist, consultant, and writer deeply concerned about children, learning, and the conditions of schools. Dr Olson identified lasting major pyschological wounds resulting from people's experiences as school students. Home educating parent, Bob Collier, produces an excellent monthly e-newsletter called Parental Intelligence which pulls together interesting and compelling articles written by parents, educators and health profressionals. There is something in this e-newsletter for everyone, from new parents contemplating the birth of their first child, or their child's first steps towards preschool or school, to those desperately seeking alternatives from an education system that is damaging their children's chances of happiness, both now and in the future. The articles are thought provoking and hopefully will help to bring about a paradigm shift in how adults view the first 20 years of life and begin to take them much more seriously. Another regular blog I visit is that of veteran life long learning campaigner Wendy Priesnitz. From here it is short jump and click to the rest of Wendy's important work on promoting human and planet friendly ways of rearing and educating children.
Was this article helpful? Was it worth $1.00 to you? Your gift of $1 or more helps to keep this site operating offering encouragement and reassurance to families wanting better outcomes for their children. Beverley Paine with her children, and their home educated children, relaxing at home. Together with the support of my family, my aim is to help parents educate their children in stress-free, nurturing environments. In addition to building and maintaing this website, I continue to create and manage local and national home educating networks, help to organise conferences and camps, as well as write for, edit and produce newsletters, resource directories and magazines. I am an active supporter of national, state, regional and local home education groups.
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and Learning without School! We began educating our children in 1985, when our eldest was five. In truth, we had helped them learn what they need to learn since they were born. I am a passionate advocate of allowing children to learn unhindered by unnecessary stress and competition, meeting developmental needs in ways that suit their individual learning styles and preferences. Ours was a homeschooling, unschooling and natural learning family! There are hundreds of articles on this site to help you build confidence as a home educating family. We hope that your home educating adventure is as satisfying as ours was! Beverley Paine
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