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	<title>Life Learning with Wendy Priesnitz &#187; parenting</title>
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	<description>Personalized, non-coercive, active, interest-led learning from life (unschooling)</description>
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		<title>Unschooling Teaches Us To Release Control Over Kids</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/08/24/unschooling-teaches-us-to-release-control-over-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unschooling is about adults releasing control over children, and allowing them to live and learn autonomously.]]></description>
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		<title>Defeating Adultism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adults have a special status of control over kids called adultism. They make decisions for children, create rules that govern children’s day-to-day lives, and generally tell kids what to do. One of the places that this abuse of power manifests itself is our education system. Life learners and unschoolers are challenging adultism and leading the way to a future where children are respected as functioning members of society.]]></description>
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		<title>The Roots of Unschooling Denial</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/07/05/the-roots-of-unschooling-denial/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/07/05/the-roots-of-unschooling-denial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If adults admit to the damage done to themselves by their schooling, they would have to question sending their own children to school. And that could be inconvenient. So denial rules.]]></description>
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		<title>Kids Are Capable of Much More Than We Give Them Credit For</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/06/13/normalizing-the-idea-that-kids-are-capable-human-beings/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/06/13/normalizing-the-idea-that-kids-are-capable-human-beings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[child prodigy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[labels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protecting children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[respect]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent sailing misadventure of sixteen-year-old Abby Sunderland and the successful climbing of Mount Everest by thirteen-year old Jordan Romero have me thinking about skill and ability as related to age. Whenever a kid accomplishes something major, it hits the media because children aren't expected to achieve much in our society. But the coverage usually involves adult disapproval more than admiration and encouragement.]]></description>
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		<title>What Really Matters is Now Available</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/06/07/what-really-matters-is-now-available/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/06/07/what-really-matters-is-now-available/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[autonomous learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeschooling]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[David H. Albert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Taylor Gatto]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our latest book is hot off the press! What Really Matters by David Albert and Joyce Reed is now available. It is subtitled "Two veteran homeschooling advocates discuss what learning is really all about." ]]></description>
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		<title>Unschooling: Doughnuts and Peanut Sauce</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/06/02/unschooling-doughnuts-and-peanut-sauce/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/06/02/unschooling-doughnuts-and-peanut-sauce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[autonomous learning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[radical unschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Holt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[self-directed learning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The ABC News show Nightline has recently featured “unschooling.” I guess budgets are low and the network is repurposing content – or at least ideas. Last month, one of the Nightline segment “reporters” did a similar piece, with a different family, on the ABC show Good Morning America. It was equally as ignorant, unbalanced, and sensationalist. But I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Than the Absence of School</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/04/01/more-than-the-absence-of-school/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/04/01/more-than-the-absence-of-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[autonomous learning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[definitions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A family life - and education - that is based on principles of respect, trust, communication and non-coercion is much more than the lack of school.]]></description>
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		<title>On Homeschooling and Child Abuse</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/03/14/on-homeschooling-and-child-abuse/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/03/14/on-homeschooling-and-child-abuse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to what some ill-informed governments and bloggers thingk, parents do not homeschool their children in order to cover up abuse.]]></description>
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		<title>The Dark Side of Influence</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/02/27/the-dark-side-of-influence/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/02/27/the-dark-side-of-influence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sudbury Valley Schools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a better way to conceptualize the relationship between members of an unschooling family than "parental influence." It revolves around respect and trust that children can, with our help, be self-directed and safe.]]></description>
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		<title>Five Requirements for Effective Parenting</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/02/25/five-requirements-for-effective-parenting/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/02/25/five-requirements-for-effective-parenting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The five prerequisites for effective parenting are trust, respect, experimentation, open-mindedness, and communication.]]></description>
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