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To: ari-freedom

It happens when you clean your room together, make dinner together, set up the Christmas tree together, go hunting together, ...

If you can co-operate and work together on a problem with your own brothers and sisters, I daresay, you can get along with just about anybody.


49 posted on 11/28/2007 11:26:02 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

ping for later.


57 posted on 11/30/2007 12:50:13 AM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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To: metmom; ari-freedom
If you can co-operate and work together on a problem with your own brothers and sisters,

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Children need plenty of time for play. It is through normal, loosely supervised, unstructured, play that children learn cooperation with others, problem solving, sharing, consensus building, and learning to lead as well as follow.

One of the most important reasons to choose homeschooling is the opportunity to play with children of varying ages, their siblings, as well as develop friendships with older adults such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and trusted neighbors.

Sadly, children are being placed in highly structured institutional settings at younger and younger ages. In these formal day care and school settings children have little opportunity for long hours of loosely supervised and unstructured play. What we will reap is a disaster!

58 posted on 11/30/2007 7:27:46 AM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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