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8:03 pm
February 22, 2010
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QuoteJulie:
Don't be too concerned if they don't seem to understand...people are used to being told "I found the best diet EVER", watching their friends lose 20 pounds -- and then gaining it right back again once they fall off the wagon. It takes a while before they'll be convinced you've actually changed your life.
JS
3:16 am
I'm continually given crap for not sending my child to factory-school. Even though I know without a doubt that I'm doing absolutely the best thing for her ever.
2:20 pm
February 22, 2010
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JayJay:
At least in America, homeschooling has a reputation as "what the crazy religious zealots do so their child won't learn about evolution and sex" -- as I'm sure you know.
JS
2:35 pm
September 24, 2012
OfflineJay-Jay,
One of my fellow Aikidoka (people who train in the Japanese martial art of Aikido) is a home schooled 12 year old and no she's not crazy.
"Often we forget . . . the sky reaches to the ground . . . with each step . . . we fly." ~We Fly, The House Jacks
5:28 pm
I'm in Australia and yes most home schooling groups are religious nut cases. It is so hard to find good quality education stuff thats not jesus flavoured. But I figure the best education is outdoors and learning about real stuff anyway.
I see tiny kids in uniforms travelling to school in the wee hours of the morning in a metal box, to learn what to think, when to eat and ask for permission to go to the toilet. I just don't get it.
Thank You Jen. Home kids are usually only crazy if their parents are crazy fundy loony
5:12 am
September 24, 2012
OfflineNo problem. Yes, it was quite an eye opener for me. I've met both her parents and they are not crazy loonies that I can tell. granted I know her father more than her mother, but I doubt loonies fundies would let their kid practice a Japanese martial art. In fact I could see crazy fundies thinking martial arts were evil devil worshiping cults
Jen
"Often we forget . . . the sky reaches to the ground . . . with each step . . . we fly." ~We Fly, The House Jacks
4:35 pm
J. Stanton:
"the basic dietary prescription for humans is relatively well-established, but it's much more difficult to fix someone who's already broken."
Perhaps nearly 2 decades of vegetarianism didn't completely break me, but certainly left me much worse for wear and exhausted all the time.
Now I have no choice but to do my best to fix it.
When I started, I could only work out about once per week. After ~8 weeks on/off in ketosis (mostly due to a stubborn liver), I can work out almost every day and not be fatigued. My endurance and mental alertness is still not where I want it to be - my hope is that for someone with a broken metabolism, keto-adaptation may simply take a much longer time than for people who didn't screw up their bodies so badly.
4:51 pm
June 5, 2011
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Looking back to the conversation above about schooling … I twigged very early on that school was about little more than social conditioning. Moving about to the sound of a bell. I grew up in an industrial area and some of my first jobs were in industrial settings.
My school days taught me well … bell … break … bell … dinner … bell … home.
I actually had a very good schooling with a number of very strong and memorable teachers. I learned a lot and much of what I learned there I continue to apply in my daily life – a confidence to speak, an ability to write with a good grasp of English, an ability to quickly calculate in my head, the list goes on.
I look at what kids are learning today and despair. I heard on the radio the other day that our Education Minister (who is an absolute prick, BTW … Michael Gove, look him up. Pob?) considers spelling a thing of past since we all have spell checkers now. Okay, the calculator put pay to being able to calculate in your head, but come on …
I despair.
In February, I will be a Grandfather to a hopefully fit, healthy and beautiful Granddaughter. Whatever her schooling, she will learn a lot from me, and it will be fun. I have nothing but the absolute respect for home schoolers – you guys keep doing that and we'll be all the better for it as a species, having strong, free thinkers in our midst. We need them.
I'm wondering how I can duck out of working to become a full time teacher to one new life.
Living in the Ice Age
http://livingintheiceage.pjgh.co.uk
2:06 am
February 22, 2010
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Steve:
Vegetarian propaganda is ubiquitous and persuasive -- if you're not well-versed enough in the science to realize the degree to which it misrepresents reality. I'm glad you've found a path to better health, and I wish you the best on your journey. If I may, can I ask why you're trying to stay keto?
Paul:
Congratulations! I hope your grandchild is the first of several.
JS
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