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RE: What's the Price we Pay for Windowless Offices?
Powerful and beautiful work you are doing. Thank you. This is yet another reason I didn't put my kids in school. They need contact with the outside world to grow properly - especially emotionally. I live in Belize and would love to hear some of these massive rainforest trees sing!
People often ask me what is one thing I discovered living in a community that I didn't expect, and my answer is always, "The need early on for a school for the children." One reason is because a school is fundamental for families to come in the first place. But also because once you start to see the world with different eyes, you don't want to send your child to a school that every day teaches them the old paradigms you are working so hard to change. At least through elementary and middle school, you want your children to grow with maximum possibilities and maximum exposure to the wonders of life, including nature. Luckily, there are more and more school programs being developed that encourage a strong connection with nature. We need to encourage and support these as much as possible. Vitamin N(ature) for all!
Yes! I love spending my days with my kids, but I'd also love for them to have a place to go that I was in alignment with. I had that for my older two children (19 and 16), but we moved, and. I don't have anything like that here. The things they teach them and the way children are treated, not to mention that they actually thwart learning. I just can't do it. In her two years in regular school, my daughter was mercilessly tormented for not being shallow and rude. So glad I took her out. Really wish I'd never put her in.
I hope you find a school or home-school program that aligns with your ideals. I never realized growing up just how important that is. I was also made fun of quite a bit until high school, but I had a very positive mother who always helped me get past it. That being said, had I had a more nurturing elementary experience, I am sure I would have blossomed earlier.