Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Freedom to learn

Providing unstructured, unsupervised time for the children sounds like it should involve very little, like me drinking tea and picking my toes and reading the whole internets.

Ahahahahaha.

I am this close to eliminating it from our lives. Let me see how I feel when I've forgotten about the mud.
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