聲明一下，不是所有人適合或者願意unschooling的。我自己也在學習過程中，時間和論壇氣氛允許的情況下，分享一下自己的學習經曆。有興趣留痕，無興趣飄過。：）
How can I stop my children from learning?
Seriously, I cannot stop my children from learning!
I have been looking into unschooling for a little bit more than a year. In the last 14 months,
I have read over 50 books on related subjects
I have subscribed and read a couple of unschooling mailing lists for one or two hours everyday
I have attended my first unschooling conference
I have met many wonderful unschooling families and children
I have over 60 or 70 new unschooling facebook "friends"
I have talked to many people about education: teachers, parents or anyone who is willing to listen
Yes, I have been totally immersing myself in this single subject: parenting/education/children/unschooling
And I am still learning.
My biggest concern before unschooling was how children could learn without textbook/school/teacher/or being taught.
Yes, I read books about it, talked to people about it and thought very hard about it.
But the real convincing answer came from my own children:
I cannot stop them from learning!
Just in the last week or two, we have touched upon the following subjects:
Saturn (We watched the Saturn, its rings and moons through a telescope when we wandered at Maui Four Seasons Resort)
Mars/Mars Exploration Rover/NASA
Moon
Frog/tadpole/toad/grass hopper/gecko/snail/bee/bird/
How to make battery/lemon battery/charging old battery with new battery/constructing forts/moving devices...
Cave
Tank/M1A1 main battle tank/battle field game (tank)
Red dirt/Lava rock/pine cone/twig/branch/tree/flower/feather/chicken/egg/cottage/water fall/turtle/fish/crab/urchin/tidal pool/
Reading/phonics/
Telling time/learning numbers (hundred, thousand, million)/math (pattern)
Swimming/diving/surfing/sand castle construction/standup paddle boarding/
New favorite games: battle field (tank), Ragdoll 2 (strategy, geometry, physics...), I dig it (business, finance, geology, planning, strategy, math...), Bloxorz (math, geometry, puzzle, pattern...), Gyroball (physics, control), checker/chess
Watched many youtube videos on the above subjects, Chinese cartoon, Astro boy, Caliou, Kipper, Pingu, Donald duck, barbapappa, Angelina ballerina...
Those are the things my DS 4.75 has done in the last week or two.
My DD 1.75 has been into:
1. Talking both in Chinese and English
2. Swimming
3. Potty training herself
4. Communicating
5. Flower/Bird/Dog/Feather/Gecko/Frog/
6. Astro boy/Caliou/Angelina Ballerina...and others I mentioned above
7. Feeding herself
8. Bathing herself and me
9. Talking on the phone
10. Shoes
11. Dancing/music/piano
12. Trying new foods
13. Moon
14. Testing mom's reaction
Now I have no worry about their learning. The only concern is how I will keep up with them. :)
They were born with unstoppable desire to learn, explore, and figure things out.
They were born with tremendous capacity for seeking out and processing information.
They were born with incredible imagination and creativity.
They were born with amazing energy and motivation.
Right, I cannot stop them from learning. Wait a minute, yes, I can.
1. Forcing them to learn things they are not interested
2. Pre-selecting things "I" think important and valuable
3. Testing and Grading their learning
4. Telling them they are not good enough
5. Telling them they "have to" do something
6. Saying lots of No, even better saying no automatically
7. Making sure what they learn will produce money, business or potential jobs
8. Making sure they achieve GPA4.0 at all cost
9. Making sure they follow the path that will lead to Ive League, starting at 3 years old
10. Making sure they understand "no pain no gain", learning can be painful
11. Banning TV and video games
12. Making sure they are disciplined, especially trained to get up at 6AM, go to school on time and do homework at night for the next 15 years, starting at 3 years old
13. Making sure they "learn" from books, especially textbooks at exactly the same time as his peers, en, the earlier the better
14. Making sure they follow rules and conform.
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