A quick thought on the subject: I think 3-5 year olds are the masters of the Law of Two Feet.
blessings, ashley On 8/7/05, luca audrey niko daniel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Kim, > I'm reading the replies to your first question with interest as this is > all new to me but your second question I can offer something to. Perhaps > you are expressing the dawning realization that OST and home need not be > separate and that when considering your children, the default option for > their learning goes on outside the home. There is plenty of thinking > and writing on this topic, it runs very deep in modern western culture. > However, for a mother, there is the question of alignment, continuity > and sustainable integrated value. Our family are home educators, > unschoolers and spaceniks. This works, as it always does, and worth > every single moment. Plenty of topics, endless opportunity and with > that it just grows. Open space within the family. > Best wishes > Daniel LeBel > Westport NZ > > > Kim Willing wrote: > > > Hello everyone! > > > > Well this is syncronicity. Whilst attempting to overcome a bad cold > > and take a desperately needed break from my 2 children (1 is 20 months > > and the other just over 3 years old) I was lying (hiding) in bed > > reading Harrison's book on peace and wondering how it is I could > > possibly adopt an Open Space mentality in the care of my kids! > > Preface this with the fact that I am operating in my own facilitation > > business (mostly Open Space), aiming to work an average of 2 days a > > month and spending the rest of the time being mum. > > > > I am currently in the process of preparing myself to conduct another 2 > > Open Space gatherings later in the month. In this role I have found > > my experience of Open Space and of myself to be calm, bold, completely > > unflappable and grounded........ but then I come home to my mum role > > and it seems the opposite is true! I am very challenged here! Thank > > goodness the people sitting in the circle, can't see what was going on > > before I left home! (Something like changing roles from cruel > > autocrat to Buddhist monk - I'm sure it's not quite this bad all the > > time but it is winter and I am feeling a little run down!). Somehow I > > seem to be running out of space at home. In the grand plan to have a > > regular break from kiddlies, my 2 attend a creche in Hobart every > > Thursday. I knew that they used a Reggio Emilia approach there but > > didn't have a clue what it meant - only that I like (and the kids > > like) they're experience there. So, I am excited and relieved to > > discover it has links with Open Space and would like to: > > > > a) find out more about it - can anyone refer me to anything here (if > > and when I get time to read it) and > > b) post this question from a mum who feels like her experience of Open > > Space is far from home - How do we do it? (ie: with toddlers, 24hrs a > > day, at home?) > > > > Love from Hobart town. > > > > Kim. > > * * ========================================================== > > [email protected] ------------------------------ To > > subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of > > [email protected]: > > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about > > OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >No virus found in this incoming message. > >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > >Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.1/64 - Release Date: 4/08/2005 > > > > > > * > * > ========================================================== > [email protected] > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of [email protected]: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
