Blog Detail
Lenz on Learning
http://lenzonlearning.com
A father's reflections on parenting, education, kids, and creativity. With a special focus on alternative education, including unschooling and democratic schooling.
- Added on: Oct 23rd, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Evan
- Listed in: Dads Alternative
- Tags: education parenting learning Democratic unschooling sudbury
Recent Posts
Growth paranoia
I was reading in a devotional classic this morning and came across some analogies for the spiritual life that I think work equally well for education. Given some basic nurture, sunshine, and rain, a plant grows without any special effort or help. We ...
Tips for parents of budding readers
Following on my last post’s more theoretical bent, this post contains some practical advice for parents of kids who are learning to read. Most of these tips would classify as common sense if it were not for the silly psychological complexes we&...
Reading happens
My 6-year-old daughter recently started showing an interest in reading the Storybook Treasury of Dick and Jane and Friends. I had bought it several years ago when looking at various approaches to teaching reading. But long since then, my wife and I h...
Stages of independence
How does the Sudbury school approach relate to different stages of child development? One assumption I realized I had was that children should be gradually given more and more independence as they get older. But there seems to be no such progression ...
Schools as factories
I picked up a copy of David Elkind’s The Hurried Child at a used-book sale recently. Below are some quotes relevant to the focus of this blog. What is surprising about our schools today is that they have reached full industrialization just at a...
Connecting with my kids
Evenings are challenging for me. I recently committed to turning off the computer between dinner and bedtime. And now I have people holding me accountable to keeping that commitment. I’ve been so caught up in the world of work (and of setting u...
