PARENTING FREEDOM

attachment parenting, homeschooling, gentle discipline
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    “The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.” Thucydides

    “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” Epictetus

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    "When attachment runs deep and strong,
    the parent's wish is the child's command."
    Gordon Neufeld
  • "The fool on the hill sees the sun going down, the world spinning 'round"

    | October 23, 2009

    Fool on the Hill ~ The Beatles

    Fool on the Hill ~ The Beatles

    Day after day,
    Alone on a hill,
    The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still
    But nobody wants to know him,
    They can see that he’s just a fool,
    And he never gives an answer,

    But the fool on the hill,
    Sees the sun going down,
    And the eyes in his head,
    See the world spinning ’round.

    Well on the way,
    Head in a cloud,
    The man of a thousand voices talking perfectly loud
    But nobody ever hears him,
    or the sound he appears to make,
    and he never seems to notice,

    But the fool on the hill,
    Sees the sun going down,
    And the eyes in his head,
    See the world spinning ’round.

    And nobody seems to like him,
    they can tell what he wants to do,
    and he never shows his feelings,

    But the fool on the hill,
    Sees the sun going down,
    And the eyes in his head,
    See the world spinning ’round.

    Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh,
    Round, round, round, round.

    He never listens to them,
    He knows that they’re the fools
    They don’t like him,

    The fool on the hill
    Sees the sun going down,
    And the eyes in his head,
    See the world spinning ’round.

    Ooh,
    Round and round and round

    Physics/Math Homeschooling Update

    | October 23, 2009

    In grade eleven, two weeks after his sixteenth birthday, my oldest son completed The Mechanical Universe (university freshman physics text). He began Saxon Math 5/4 at age 7 1/2, and did every question in every Saxon Math book, including 6/5, 7/6, 8/7, Algebra 1/2, Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Advanced Math (Trigonometry), Calculus, and he just completed The Mechanical Universe (Physics). He is now starting Beyond The Mechanical Universe. He expects to finish it by the end of grade eleven and begin Chemical Principles (university freshman text) next summer before grade twelve. He has had no teacher except the textbooks.

    My second son began Saxon Math 5/4 as soon as he turned seven at the beginning of grade two. At this point, he has completed every problem in Saxon Math 5/4, 6/5, 7/6, and 8/7 and he is within days of finishing Saxon Algebra 1/2. He studies the lessons without a teacher and completely works the problems himself. He just turned eleven and is in the sixth grade.

    http://parentingfreedom.com/math/

    http://parentingfreedom.com/2009/02/28/math-method-explained/

    "Introducing children at the age of five into the structure and discipline of a classroom could even be harmful."

    | October 22, 2009

    I agree with this study, especially because I have a 5-year-old that is my fourth child. He plays, plays, plays, and we do very little schooling yet.

    Cambridge Study Says 5-year-olds Too Young To Start School
    http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/oct/09102105.html

    “A study of primary education by Cambridge University recommends that formal schooling of children should begin at the age of six, a year later than the present norm in the UK…”

    “No evidence suggesting formal teaching environments benefited young children…”

    “Introducing children at the age of five into the structure and discipline of a classroom could even be harmful…”

    “‘If they are already failing by the age of four-and-a-half or five it’s going to be quite difficult to get them back into the system again. They are not going to learn to read, write and add up if you have alienated them,’ Pugh said.”

    “The report recommends that children up to the age of six should instead continue the more informal, play-based education typically found in nurseries…”

    “Other studies have found marked negative effects from the introduction of 3 to 5 year olds to formal schooling, including brain chemistry damage, aggression, negative social and emotional development, and illness.”

    Dr. Mercola's Swine Flu Summary

    | October 21, 2009

    ALERT: Special Swine Flu Update
    http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/10/21/Special-Swine-Flu-Update.aspx

    Barack Obama: Obamacare "could give Planned Parenthood direct access to American schoolchildren at taxpayer expense."

    | October 19, 2009

    He promised to be on Planned Parenthood’s side. He voted four times in support of infanticide.

    Obamacare gives Planned Parenthood entry to schools?
    http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=109450#

    “The House’s proposed health national health plan would establish ‘school-based health clinics’ on campuses, and one group is warning it could give Planned Parenthood direct access to American schoolchildren at taxpayer expense.”

    Change! ObamaCare will put Planned Parenthood clinics inside your child’s school
    http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2009/10/change-obamacare-will-put-planned.html#

    ObamaCare will put Planned Parenthood clinics inside your child’s school
    http://lastdaywatchers.com/2009/09/obamacare-will-put-planned-parenthood-clinics-inside-your-childs-school/

    “Under an innocuous-sounding section titled ‘School-Based Health Clinics,’ H.R. 3200 will authorize Planned Parenthood, as a ‘sponsoring facility,’ to run a clinic during school hours on the grounds of public schools, with absolutely no accountability either to parents or school administrators.”

    Hat Tip: http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/10/outrage-obamacare-will-put-planned-parenthood-clinics-inside-schools-next-year/

    http://www.stopp.org/plan.htm

    “Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is the nation’s largest operator of abortion facilities and has admitted to committing over 3,000,000 post-implantation abortion procedures since it first started doing them in New York state in 1970.”

    First-class vaccine has fewer side effects. Sweet. :-/

    | October 19, 2009

    German officials reject charges of two-classes of swine-flu vaccines
    http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4803801,00.html

    “The type of shot a person gets is to depend on their position in society, leading to complaints about a ‘second class’ swine-flu vaccine.”

    “Politicians, certain government employees and members of the German military are scheduled to receive one type of the swine flu vaccine, while average citizens in Germany are to receive a different one.”

    “The difference between the two vaccines is that the one meant for members of the government is said to have fewer side-effects. It also lacks certain additives which are said to be present in the version for the general population.”

    Internet Addiction

    | October 19, 2009

    20 Things I learned in my week without my computer (from Jennifer)
    http://www.conversiondiary.com/2009/10/20-things-i-learned-in-my-week-without.html

    7. “The internet tempts me to over-value my own opinions (especially micro-communication tools like Twitter and email). This week I caught myself hanging on to every single opinion I had about anything, a habit I’d formed from constantly emailing and tweeting friends with every little thought I had. When I wrote the ideas down on paper to express later by phone or in person, I realized that most of them were pretty inane, things that I would have forgotten about altogether in the days before I had an internet connection.”

    13. “Getting on my computer makes it very easy to forget what my goals for the day are. Especially because I have tendencies toward ADD, I go into ‘monkey with shiny object’ mode with all the great, interconnected information available on the internet; I all too easily get sucked in and completely forget what I was trying to accomplish in the day.”

    17. “The same force that drives people to slot machines is what drives me to my computer. I realized that when I mindlessly get online, every time I click it’s like pulling the lever on a slot machine and hoping to hit the jackpot. I’m hoping to hit a virtual jackpot — a blog post that changes my life, an email that blows me away, a hilarious video on YouTube, etc. And the truth is that there’s enough stuff online that if I clicked on enough links or spent enough time on email I would get that payoff I’m looking for. But, just like with slot machines, I need to be careful about spending endless amounts of time just sitting around pulling the lever.”

    "Time is not ours, but God's"

    | October 19, 2009

    The Domestic Monastery …
    http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/ron/ron_14domesticmonastery.html

    “For example, the mother who stays home with small children experiences a very real withdrawal from the world. Her existence is definitely monastic. Her tasks and preoccupations remove her from the centres of power and social importance. And she feels it. Moreover her sustained contact with young children (the mildest of the mild) gives her a privileged opportunity to be in harmony with the mild, that is, to attune herself to the powerlessness rather than to the powerful.”

    Pope Benedict XVI: Children "who feel like they are orphans are not children without parents, but children who have too many parents"

    | October 19, 2009

    Divorce, cohabitation ruin the lives of many children, pope says
    http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0904281.htm

    “More and more couples build their unions on the fragility and impermanence of cohabitation, which is merely based on an ‘individual’s feeling or subjectivity,’ he said.”

    “He said as divorces increase and cohabitation is on the rise, the children in these situations are ‘deprived of their parents’ support and become victims of malaise and abandonment, thus spreading social disorder.’”

    “Children need concrete fixed points of reference such as having one set of parents who will always be united as a family, the pope said.”

    “He said divorce is sabotaging the traditional sense of an extended family by creating too many ‘parents,’ such as stepmothers and stepfathers.”

    “In fact, the majority of children today ‘who feel like they are orphans are not children without parents, but children who have too many parents,’ he said.”

    “This situation of a child caught between the different expectations and mixed messages of too many stepparents ‘cannot help but create inner conflicts and confusion’ within the child, he said.”

    I am reminded of children with too many teachers as well.

    Barack Obama: The Peaceful Infanticide President

    | October 18, 2009

    Top Quotes From This Year’s Nobel Peace Prize Winner
    http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/10/top-quotes-from-this-years-nobel-peace/

    “They Bring a Knife…We Bring a Gun.” Barack Obama

    “Get in Their Faces!” Barack Obama

    “I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I’m angry!” Barack Obama

    “Hit Back Twice As Hard.” Barack Obama

    and more… http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/10/top-quotes-from-this-years-nobel-peace/

    And the most violent of all – refusing help to a baby dying from a botched abortion:

    “Essentially adding an additional doctor who then has to be called in an emergency situation to come in and make these assessments is really designed simply to burden the original decision.” Barack Obama

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