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A second interview on the podcast Cecilie and Jesper Conrad do.

The collection of criticism of Learn Nothing Day is here:

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Don't forget, Learn Nothing Day is only four days away!!

53:30 "I'm not going to sacrifice my child's happiness for your occasional comfort."

This quote was encouraging for me.? With some kids unschooling, some kids doing school by choice, and attachment parenting the youngest few, every circle I run in, I bump into other people's opinions.? Best course of action is?for me to stay happy, calm, and focused on my kids.?

1:37:10 "People go to therapy, not about a video game but the relationship between them and their parents." Also a good reminder!? When you talked about playing WITH a game, I remember my sister used to try to do all kinds of crazy things on Mario Kart.? We did a lot of driving intentionally off the rainbow bridge and running the race tracks backward.

I liked your story about Kirby in the junior college math class. I took one of those as a teenager after being traditionally homeschooled.? I think my mom passed on more of her own stress and phobia of math than she meant to for me.? I remember fighting with her about doing math more than any of the actual math.? But when I took that class I was thinking the whole time "Oh, that actually makes sense now."?

Learn Nothing Day: I took the four younger kids to Costco in the morning.? The four and two year olds were getting squirrely in the checkout line so I started singing silly songs to them, and apparently, a couple were new to them.? Oops!? And then the nine year old asked how the conveyor belt worked.? Oops again!? The 15 year old slept until 4pm but then I forgot to tell her it was learn nothing day and she started reading Dracula.? Oops a third time!? The 11 year old fell off her bed backward on accident and talked about the physics of falling and balance a bit with my husband, and the 14 year old is working at an art studio running summer camps for kids and arrived home and announced that she discovered work is a LOT harder when two coworkers call out sick.? I don't know what the three month old learned yet, lol.?

Thanks for all that feedback, and the Learn Nothing Day attempts. :-)

I was listening to that podcast again while I did other things and there are a couple of errors.? More, but I would be nitpicking myself, and a kid's age and all.??

JULY 24 is Pioneer Day (in Utah)? ?and my birthday at my house).? At one point I said July 4, Pioneer Day.? SO WRONG and so much water under the bridge, only it's recorded and people will be listening to it in years to come and so I will make that error over and over again.? DOH!

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The other was I said something happened here, on Always Learning, but it was not here.? There was a question Radical Unschooling Info about a kid who used to like the mom watching him play video games, but he got older and asked her not to sit there all the time, and it spooked her or hurt her feelings maybe.? She was asking what might be happening.?

It was on facebook at Radical Unschooling Info,? Some of the responses were irritating.? ?Of course others were beautiful unschooling analyses of kids getting older, and people were rightly impressed that the mom had been paying attention to him up to that point.? I guess you need to have access to a facebook account to read it, but for the record it is here (if the mom doesn't delete it and if facebook stays around).? ?..... I wasn't able to find it.? If the mom deleted the original post, the whole thing will be gone.??

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AND one more error I made, of numbers:

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I was younger when I was watching Robin Hood.? I said 7, 8, 9, but then I pictured where the tv was and such in those days, and I watched it at 4, 5, 6, when I knew much less. :-)? STILL things stuck, and wove their way into my heart. :-)

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