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Art, exploration, archery, carpentry, me-time, what more does a child need! And just look at that setting! Healthy humans in the making in your hood!

This is so amazing!  I was fortunate to have a brother and neighborhood friends to socialize with.  We had free reign of the woods and fields around our home.  I attended public school but wouldn't dream of sending my kids (if I end up having any?) there today.

You are doing a wonderful job. Keep it up.

I love this!!  And I totally resonate with this.  I don't get that comment or gesture so much anymore as I did a few years back but I think it is because in the areas we have lived, homeschooling has become increasingly the standard and in fact our county we are in now just posted the stats and the numbers of homeschoolers registered this year has nearly doubled.  I'm blessed with a ton of resources from kids clubs to local library programs.  Even a lot of local businesses offer homeschool days.  It's funny to think though, how when I was posed that question, "how does she socialize" that the people posing the question don't stop to think about kids in public school.  Public school these days are long hours inside, in an enclosed room, stuck behind a desk, little talking, little socializing....just seconds between the bell as you rush from class to class.  My homeschooler gets FAR more socializing then this. 

I miss offering work exchanges and living in an intentional community.  I hope to one day put a cabin here and have it available to once again offer a space for work exchangers to come to visit, lend a hand, learn, and enjoy.  It sounds like you have a pretty sweet set up.  Enjoy the blessings!!  XOXO

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I’m almost envious at how much variation of interaction your girls get with so many passing through and so many events. I love how everyone has got something they can teach them.

That sounds really good. When we were looking for a kindergarten for our son, we first heard about the "age-mixed concept". I never thought about mixed groups before. But it makes sense, because people have always grown up in social groups that spanned all ages, including adults. How old are your girls? 

I am the youngest of six children and grew up in a small town surrounded by relatives. I had many friends in my school days with whom I had very intense good and bad times. I remember the competition in the classroom very well and didn't know at the time that the school system shaped competition and neglected cooperation. Today it's different with my son, who is in the 8th grade. The children are much less competition-oriented, at least in the environment in which my son moves, but it is of course still something different than home schooling. 

State schooling is only a logical consequence of the externally supplied societies in which we live. Exceptions rather confirm the rule, because it is always minorities who choose a different form of lifestyle. The majority ensures that we get everything we need to live, often more than that. Self-sufficiency reveals a value chain much more quickly than external supply. The effort spent on food, roof over one's head, transport, etc., can be learned and understood more quickly by children in small, self-sufficient communities. In modern societies, children must gradually realize this abstract intellectual achievement and this often leads to them not really understanding what world they are in. 

Your community seems to move exactly between these two worlds and to draw the best from each. This is a feat and at the same time a privilege that you have certainly worked for. Nevertheless, you benefit from the external supply, because such existential things as salt, sugar, flour or other staple foods have to be bought, just like clothes, building materials etc. What percentage, would you say, are you self-supplied and how much externally supplied? 

I think the most difficult task in modern people's lives is to learn to accept the habit of their own existence, while advertising and the media keep telling you something else: that you can bring it to greatness, glory and wealth. It is this contradiction that causes many people misfortune, because they are inevitably irritated by the fact that they themselves lead an average life, while it looks as if everyone else is not doing so. 

I am in the middle of this modern city rather an exception and lead a simple life with very little money, but an inner wealth. I benefit from those who provide me with everything: mobility, electricity, heat, food, clothing, garbage collection, sewerage, etc. 

It's a world where it's difficult to express thanks, because you don't meet the people who make sure everything runs smoothly. People get paid to do that, but if you ask a truck driver if he is sure of the gratitude of the people who unpack at home what he transports on the highway, he might not be really convinced. It is said that income and money would be a sufficient incentive, but I don't think it really is just that. 

I think you could say that usually people always directly and indirectly do much more for each other than they are aware of. 

May you continue to get interesting guests who show you and your family something of interest and value. Greetings from Hamburg.

This statement right here rings sooooo much truth:

> I have written before, how school really introduces the idea of segregation into our lives. Planting that seed at such a young age, leads to society accepting that segregation is just a normal part of life. When it is not.

If only everyone could come to this realization.  We are so programmed in many ways we can’t even see it.  We are pumped with so many lies that we live them as truth because that’s what we’re used to.  It feels so great to have the shades removed from my eyes to be able to see and distinguish between the truth and the lies.  

You know how much I admire you and your free lifestyle and how you are raising your children.  I love that they get to meet so many different people of different ages and skills and learn from them.  It’s a beautiful thing to have a free mind and freedom of choice. Kudos to you mama!  Nice read ~

Home schooling is something we’ve been thinking a few times. It’s interesting and scary too because we are not familiar with it.

I think this can not be said often enough: "I have written before, how school really introduces the idea of segregation into our lives. Planting that seed at such a young age, leads to society accepting that segregation is just a normal part of life. When it is not."

And is I wrote in my enty for the writing challange, that's probably where the question is coming from in the first place. We normally don't ask those kind of questions.

Lovely that your girls have such diverse and colourful people around them to help them socialize.  

But I'm chuckling at your assessment of schools.  Things are definitely NOT like that here in Thailand, nor in many countries.  Class activities are done in small groups, lots of self-directed learning and heaps of activities having older kids assisting and supporting younger ones.  My daughter has 4 hours of dance practice with girls from across 4 different grade levels tomorrow, on a SATURDAY.  She's looking forward and took herself off to bed early so she would be energized (her words!).  Dutch schools are incredibly creative and children-led learning too.  My Dutch mother attended one of the first Montessori schools in Holland after WW2.  

Just do you, and stop worrying about or justifying your choices.  You're doing you best, and that's enough.  There are virtues and drawbacks from both (all) ways of raising kids and, in the end, they will find their own way.  

You're a great mom.  

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Yes, I love everything you just said! That mixed age interaction is so important.  We really don't need to grow up at the same time...  there's a natural mentorship that happens between kids that is unheard of in the school system.  And yesh, it's replaced by segregation, perhaps unknowingly, but it's there and it's strong.  

I wish we had more friends who lived like we do... but for now the little homie is going to a Sudbury school and that is equal to unschooling with a bunch of friends who are anywhere from 5 to 18 years old.  He loves it and has two friends now, one is 7 and the other 9, not bad for a 5 year old 😁. 

Thanks for this article on that subject people seem to never think about that bit where we aren't allowed to socialize durring class!  

Hoping you're well... sorry I cannot come say hello, we are very crazy busy with this move, that seems to never end.

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