feelings
FEELINGS are not meant to be fixed, punished, banished,ignored, judged, criticized, denied, feared, or hidden. Although they have no expiration date, for maximum benefit they are best consumed fresh (they don't BOTTLE well), and shared with others often.

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The music is lovely, too.

our unschooling ABCs
A – autonomy - the freedom to choose when, where, how and what we learn and to direct the rest of our life with the same freedom (when to take trips, when to wake up each day, what to wear, when to eat, what to spend our time on, who to spend time with, etc…). B – being together – we have so much time to get to know and enjoy each other! C – creative & critical thinking – we don’t spend precious time memorizing “right” answers in order to score well on tests, our learning has a more lasting purpose. We have the freedom to question everything, and explore to the extent that our curiosity is satisfied before moving on to something else.

confusing evaluations of others actions with feelings
It is common practice in our society to confuse evaluations or interpretations we make about other people's behaviors, with our own feelings.For example:Observation without evaluation: "He told me he would be here at 6 pm. Now it's 8 pm and he is not here".Evaluation: He always does this. I can't remember a time when he arrived when he said he would. I feel so neglected and abandoned.In this example, the words neglected and abandoned describe an interpretation of the man's actions. Essentially, the speaker is saying "he abandoned me" or "he's neglecting me". Nobody really knows if this is tru

hidden blessings
Our van was stolen from our driveway while we were sleeping last week. It has, of course, spurred on a process for all of us. For Kale, we talked about feelings around this. He didn't express much on his own about it when we discovered it in the morning. That evening, I asked him what feelings came up for him when I told him the van was stolen. He said without hesitation that he felt surprised, then angry because he didn't want it to be gone. I asked him if he felt scared at all and he said nope. I was surprised about that, but didn't let on. I don't want to "plant" feelings into him that aren't there. He wanted to know why someone would do this, so we talked about our community, needs, pov