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Roblox Question

Started this discussion. Last reply by Alex Polikowsky Dec 12, 2011. 1 Reply 0 Likes

Consequences

Started this discussion. Last reply by Arijit Mitra Aug 11, 2011. 21 Replies 0 Likes

I discovered last night when looking at my iPad after my (8 yr old) son had played with it that he had figured out how to download some games. I didn't go into it much since it was late and I was…Continue

When You're Not There...

Started this discussion. Last reply by Sandra Ostapowich Feb 28, 2011. 7 Replies 0 Likes

My mom is coming to visit for a week and stay with my son while I have to do some business traveling. It's great being a single parent working from home, but having to travel every now and then is…Continue

Is this how it's supposed to be?

Started this discussion. Last reply by Archana A Vasisht Feb 28. 28 Replies 0 Likes

So I got my son a laptop for Christmas. He has been playing Roblox pretty much all day, every day for the last 3 weeks. He has become unsociable and isn't interested in doing anything else because…Continue

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Archana A Vasisht replied to Sandra Ostapowich's discussion Is this how it's supposed to be?

" Hema, Does Raghu play minecraft? Which server? Neelabh is into it big time! Hema said: "

Feb 28

Alex Polikowsky replied to Sandra Ostapowich's discussion Roblox Question

"I have not played Roblox in a long time but my son was a big time Roblox player years ago. I remember finding a lot of Lua instructions that I used for building games on Roblox Wiki pages. Just a quick google and I found…"

Dec 12, 2011

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Roblox Question

My son has expressed interest in learning to write scripts in Roblox. The (little) research I've done points me to Lua programming, but I'm hoping someone here can point me to a basic programming book or website with scripts that he can copy? The books I've found on the language look to be written for pretty advanced/professional programmers.See More

Dec 10, 2011

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Arijit Mitra replied to Sandra Ostapowich's discussion Consequences

" - being proactive, I mean, as well as learning to respond to your child's non-verbal communication. Both of those will help reduce meltdowns overall and set you up to have a more peaceful home regardless of whether or not you're…"

Aug 11, 2011

Meredith replied to Sandra Ostapowich's discussion Consequences

"The reason children experience strong emotions and struggle to deal with them (I think) has a lot to do with how attentive and empathetic their parents have been to their needs at an early age. That's not entirely so. Some kids have…"

Aug 11, 2011

Arijit Mitra replied to Sandra Ostapowich's discussion Consequences

"Meredith thanks for your response... There are personality/temperament issues involved - some kids experience very strong emotions and struggle to deal with them. Some kids find childhood very, very hard. Tell me about it... I…"

Aug 11, 2011

Marilyn Shannahan replied to Sandra Ostapowich's discussion Consequences

"Apparently, Itunes lists some games as free to download but there is a charge to play the games. I had $45 dollars charged to my itunes account because my daughter clicked on games that had a FREE icon next to them. I realize that your…"

Aug 11, 2011

Meredith replied to Sandra Ostapowich's discussion Consequences

"He never threw a tantrum, because we have been doing this since he was born. I want to comment on this because to some extent it's a misconception. While it certainly Does help to say Yes whenever you can (without overly impinging on…"

Aug 11, 2011

Arijit Mitra replied to Sandra Ostapowich's discussion Consequences

"I don't know about others, but I'd be soooo..... proud of my son if that's how he got out the password out of his grand-mom. It's genius! Now I know it is easy to look at it as deceit or stealing, but for an eight year old…"

Aug 11, 2011

Sandra Ostapowich replied to Sandra Ostapowich's discussion Consequences

"My son has always been very into "city management" type things. He regularly plays SimCity and other games like that. The games that got the in-game purchases made were also those types of games. So I had gotten Monopoly (the Mario version…"

Aug 8, 2011

Sandra Dodd replied to Sandra Ostapowich's discussion Consequences

"-=- *** Fortunately, the lack of electronic games for a couple of hours has resulted in him wanting to learn to play Monopoly. *** -=-Fortunate for who, though? From what you've written you're still locked into seeing how wrong…"

Aug 8, 2011

julie persons replied to Sandra Ostapowich's discussion Is this how it's supposed to be?

"Hi All, does anyone have any minecraft servers they might recommend for a younger child (7) wanting to play mostly in peaceful mode? She would love to play with other unschoolers, if there are are servers out there? thanks!"

Aug 1, 2011

Patience replied to Sandra Ostapowich's discussion Consequences

"I let my son use my iPod. He always asks for my permission before downloading games, and I ALWAYS make sure they're free.. because we are very tight with money!! But, wow! I am blown away by the money that was charged on your…"

Jul 29, 2011

Nance Confer replied to Sandra Ostapowich's discussion Consequences

"You might throw in a dose of cynicism as well as info about your finances. Commercials and marketing devices are not there because anybody loves you. They don't exist so parents can show love. They exist to push the next new thing and…"

Mar 29, 2011

Meredith replied to Sandra Ostapowich's discussion Consequences

"I know I need to work on finding ways to say yes more. The challenge there is that my son is in a very materialistic phase in which he will actually verbalize "If you love me, you will buy me things I want," and "If you buy me things…"

Mar 29, 2011

Sandra Ostapowich replied to Sandra Ostapowich's discussion Consequences

"I got an email today from iTunes - they're reversing the charges. (whew!) I know I need to work on finding ways to say yes more. The challenge there is that my son is in a very materialistic phase in which he will actually verbalize…"

Mar 29, 2011

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what does "radical unschooling" mean to you?: I'm still figuring that out, but generally, we "wing it", learning as we go, finding and digging into the interesting things of life.

how long have you been unschooling or homeschooling?: Since about August 2010.

first names of children: Isaac, 8

a little about me: Single (divorced) mother, work from home planning conferences and retreats around the country for a Lutheran youth ministry organization. I read/research, crochet, play a little WOW, and try to pick up new skills when I can.

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"Social Studies"

Posted on March 10, 2011 at 12:20am 4 Comments 0 Likes

We had a bunch of errands to run today, and the car radio seems to be the time when I find out what's going on in the world by listening to news radio. Most of the time Isaac just zones out, playing his DSi in the backseat. Today, he was listening.

"What's going on??" he asks.

"We're running errands..." I respond.

"No, I mean on the news with that country. Is there a war?"

So I try to summarize the current crises in the middle-east to their most basic points…

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Reminding Myself

Posted on February 13, 2011 at 2:47pm 1 Comment 0 Likes

So I just remembered about this blog option on here and figured I might as well write down the fun and interesting learny things that we do in our family. I hope it doesn't end up sounding like bragging or a to-do list for anyone who happens to read it (though I don't really expect anyone to). This is for those "bad" days, when I doubt what we're doing, fear that I'm screwing up my son, don't think he's learning anything useful - so I can look back and say, yes..we are. And while it might…

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At 8:19am on February 2, 2011, michelle N said…: Hey Sandra, thanks for commenting on my post. I started homeschooling the same time you did although the unschooling didn't start until a couple of months later (I was doing Unit Studies). I wondered if you have found that you have more, not less, time on your hands with unschooling. It seems that now that I have come to accept No as an acceptable answer I am able to say No to more things for myself. I don't pretend to enjoy "girls night out" when I'd rather be home with my family I just stay home. And I don't care nearly as much about how clean the house is, homeschooling is the perfect excuse for an ecclecticly dirty home : ). Anyway, I was just curious if another new unschooled was having the same pleasant side effect.