[pf] home-schooling discipline (was: OT:Credit check to procreate)

At 20:24 12/7/2001 -0400, Molly Williams wrote {at:
http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/pfvs/2001III/msg00368.html } :-
>I think really healthy families are the ones where the adults naturally
(not forcefully) involve the kids in what they're doing, whether it's ...
That's one reason I am so enamored of homeschooling and the homeschoolers
I've known -- education is just another part of life, part of a seamless
whole, involving both the adults and kids in a natural, fun, and bonding
process, while at the same time focusing outward, on the world at large, ...
>
· I'm sure we couldn't have done home-schooling, in spite of my being
well-qualified and generally able, since teenagers _have_to_ be able to
rebel or at least show their independence, and as the person in charge of
their schooling I would not have been able to separate such rebelliousness
from the "in-school" discipline.

· I don't see that this can be properly solved in most home-school families
after age 11; if the children do knuckle-under, I'm sure that has an
adverse effect on their own development and on their age-20s relationship
with their parents.

David.
David MacClement [davd @ ihug.co.nz] (remove spaces)
http://www.geocities.com/davd.geo/index.html#top
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