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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

How did your child(ren) learn to walk and talk?  Did you help by being 
available or did you do it all for them?

For starters, you stop *giving* people things and start making them *earn* 
them.

Give them the tools instead of simply doing things for them.

As to homeschooling.  LOTS of folks work and homeschool!  Lots!

"incapable of understanding or guiding the process"  That's right back to 
the thinking that got us in this mess to begin with.  If public school is 
working so well and the government is working so well, then why would you 
think that the products of that system wouldn't be capable of understanding 
or replicating the "process."  Not, mind you, that I think the process needs 
to be either understood or used!

Gene, and others, why is that when you need to do something or learn 
something you seem to have no problem finding what you need to teach 
yourself what you need to know or find someone to help you do it and yet you 
find it incomprehensible that children, who are a whole lot smarter than the 
tired old brains of older folks, are capable of doing the same?  Or that 
parents, once all the nanny state crap is removed, won't just stand up and 
do what needs to be done?

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> How shall we do that?
> > I'm sure you don't want to hear it again, but, ya know, the amazing
> > thing
> > about homeschooling, and unschooling in particular, is that it
> > succeeds
> > without Big Brother sitting and looking over someone's shoulder
> > telling them
> > what to do, when to do it and how to do it.
>
> I am a strong advocate of homeschooling and unschooling. Who shall do
> this for the children whose parents are both working out of the home
> and/or are simply incapable of understanding or guiding the process?