For those I've introduced

http://eolife.org/articles/Cycles_Of_Life/The_Right_To_Be_You.aspx Ela's Sharing Artical

http://liberatedlearning.weebly.com/unschooling-by-ela-forest.html unschooling explained

For further info on Organic Farm Share

http://www.alforpen.com/enterprise.html

Candice

Distrust has led us here

I am putting in two links these I find really valid;

The first is an example of distrust in today’s world

  

The second is to remind us that this distrust is destroying us from the inside from our most vulnerable point; where our most innocent and trusting stand and instead of protecting them we need to be as they are on a world wide scale.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Centre-for-Child-Honouring/216111275489

How do we recover?

 'From the Grass Roots Up With Never Ending Patience’

 http://www.joebower.org/2010/10/we-need-more-standardization.html

To Recover when things are becoming worse than they are

This site I have just found helpful to assist me calm my emotions via refocusing on how I am feeling in this split second and then what my goal is and then back to reading nice thoughts from this site and then do it all over again.
http://justaddlightandstir.blogspot.com/2010/09/joy.html
Thanks Sandra Dodd

Learning to let go

This is a big thing for me and something that will take more than just one blog posting... this I came across today and I find it quite profound that is why I am putting it up here.
To find it you need to go to the very bottom of the page.
http://jtspencer.blogspot.com/

It is the second time that I am considering quiting a subject as I don't feel as though I know enough to do the assessment to the standard that I want to thus I need to just accept that it won't ever be perfect and i just need to get out there...

Our Judgemental Society Causes Early Deaths?

This is some thoughts that I have been having that I weren't able to put into words.. but now I have and I did so after reading the follosing blog (if you are interested)
http://www.joebower.org/2010/10/consequences-for-whom.html

Who has a right to say what is 'right' and what is 'wrong'... I have just come from the schooling system (in 2006), I am happily married, have 2 beautiful boys, a husband also suffering and more so though post traumatic stress, a mentally ill mother and only 2 years part time study to go before I'm a qualified teacher though still I do not believe that I am achieving enough. My internal critic runs constantly and I acknowledge that this is a complex that I have seen affected countless fellow high achieving students.

A lot of students don’t even get time to figure out who they are and where they belong on this planet before they are filled with guilt about not being the best in absolutely everything they do… We are constantly being judged… though being the best does not bring you happiness as my recently deceased friend Georgia may have told you if she had known of how many subliminal messages she had received from the way society is. This beautiful intelligent 21 year old had respect for all she came in contact with; she saw you for who you were a person not competition, she was at Uni, engaged and had bought a house and yet no-one knew that this busy life was her mask and her thoughts were so negative that she took her life on the 2nd of this month; October 2010. Isn’t this degree of judging meant for that higher power?

I’m interested in preserving life and therefore I will be Unschooling my children until society can step in and prevent such deaths. Did you know that her brain was still developing into the adult formation and the only skills she had to deal with this emotional time was that of how to run you pseudo life.

With this constant push for success measured by others agendas we as educators are the only ones who can bring about change where it is needed:- at the grass roots, to protect the innocent from those ignorant of the reality they live in. Please join me, as no further harm should ‘need’ to occur.

The best blog on Bullying I have found

Here it is....
I am also trying to wonder what and why it is that a friend Georgia Levi McBride left us so suddenly... I will have to wait until I get to the other side to answer this one but until then... this may or may not be on the right track.

http://lisarussell.org/blog/bullying-quite-possibly-the-longest-blog-post-ever/

Candice