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- what does "radical unschooling" mean to you?
- Trust...love, connection...carpe diem!
- how long have you been unschooling or homeschooling?
- Ive been striving to be a mindful mamma as best I can for 21 years, we've been learning about unschooling for 3yrs, and actually doing it for only 1.5 yr, with our 5th daughter Shanti, 8yo...unless one can count each childs first 6 years of life--then there's our littlies- giacomo leo and gioele--
- names and ages of children
- Lucia 21yrs, Lidia 17y, Matteo 14y, Raffaele 10y, Shanti 8y, GiacomoLeo 5y, Gioele 2.75y
- a little about me
- I am a mamma of 7 children, I love playing music (piano, flute and drums-tabla mostly), I weave, work threads in different manners, i also enjoy drawing and watercolor...especially sumie a japanese ink brush technique. My main interests are children and how their minds tick, gardening, and the above list...I could go on...but maybe Ill stop now! oh yes! we live in italy!
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- At 8:33am on December 4, 2008,
Jane B said… - I guess you figured it out! They flash by just like mine. :) So, exquisitely beautiful are you and yours. Thank you!
- At 7:54am on December 2, 2008,
Jan Hunt said… - Have you written privately? I haven't received any messages yet. My address is jan@naturalchild.org.
Thanks!
Jan
- At 11:33am on December 1, 2008,
Jan Hunt said…
- Hi again,
I just read your reply in the forum. It would be wonderful to have a special gmail address that we could list!
Thanks,
Jan
- At 10:55am on December 1, 2008,
Jan Hunt said…
- Hi Melissa,
Thank you so much for taking the time to send all of this wonderful information!
First I want to reassure you that the translator is Carlo Ruspa, who has the naturalchild.it site.
It would be wonderful if you could start the new list in time for the Italian translation of Natural Child - however, Carlo is in a rush as this question of wanting to add support information came in just at the end of this project. I'll ask him how soon he would need the group reference, and get back to you.
Do you know of a good article in Italian on how to get started with unschooling, that we can include?
Could you give me your regular email address, and let me know if it's OK for Carlo to write to you directly? My address is jan@naturalchild.org.
I'm so glad I found you! :)
Thanks,
Jan
- At 1:57pm on November 30, 2008,
Jan Hunt said…
- Hi Melissa,
I just posted a request for information on support groups in Italy. My book, The Natural Child, is being translated into Italian, and the publisher wants to include a list of unschooling support groups in Italy. I'd appreciate any references. So far I have found this one:
Homeschooling Families in Italy
http://groups.msn.com/HomeschoolingFamiliesinItaly/.
Do you know of any others?
Thanks,
Jan
jan@naturalchild.org
Natural Child Project
http://www.naturalchild.org
The Unschooling Unmanual
http://www.naturalchild.org/unmanual
"Change the world - nurture a child."
- At 10:58am on October 31, 2008,
Shonna Morgan said…
- Melissa, I feel for you! :)
The internet and that connection to more mindful parents was my lifeline to the outside world. Tolerating the parenting that was everywhere was very alienating....I still am so thankful that I hadn't moved to Italy and had children in the 80s or earlier, lol....at least I had the internet!
When I looked at "homeschooling" in Italy, it was impossible! Not quite illegal, but there was testing (interrogations as you say) every 3 months, and all work had to be shown that matched the work done in school. At the time I did the best researching I could (not that great! lol) and found fewer than 100 homeschoolers in the entire country of 60 million!
I would love to go back for a year or two as an unschooling family, registered here at "school" (virtual) .....now THAT might be fun!
Are your children all bilingual with English or another language?
A family you will find on this ring just spent a few weeks in Italy!
Take care,
Auguri!
Shonna
- At 11:59am on October 30, 2008,
- Melissa, how on earth do you manage to unschool in Italy? I am so curious!
We lived in Italy for 5 years, on Lake Como. The twins were born there (Milan) in 2002 and the first 3 kids went to school to grade 1, 2 and 4. Since we moved back to Canada 3 years ago we have been oh so happily radically unschooling! But in Italy it just seemed impossible, in spite of my attempts at something different from the school system. How do you do it?
- At 11:44am on October 24, 2008,
Jane B said…
- :) I feel just grand! Thanks for the hug. Same to you and more.
- At 7:23pm on August 16, 2008,
Bea Mantovani said… - Hi!
I know you from the CC list, as well as a number of other lists we are both on. I just looked for Cerreto Langhe on google maps in satellite view (I love modern technology! ) It's such a tiny place, it looks so out of the way! (Here I am, dreaming of countryside in the middle of Montreal.)
My grandfather was born and grew up on a farm in northern Italy (I think around Modena, so actually kind of far from where you live) and for some reason whenever you talk about your life I always think of him. (He also had lots of brothers and sisters.)
- At 1:05pm on August 5, 2008,
Jane B said…
- Darling I know you look nothing like a chilli pepper. You're holding out on us!
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