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Learning through Freedom to Adventure
Learning through Freedom to Adventure
What is education? Is it sitting in a classroom; watching video lessons; or reading stacks of books? Or is education the process of gaining knowledge through study and experience — learning through the freedom to adventure?
For two boys in 1967, learning looked like hitching their pony cart to King, their gallant Shetland pony, and setting off for the Montreal Expo over 300 miles away. Tony (11)…
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#alternative education#free-range kids#free-range parenting#freedom#Homeschool#learning#making time for things that matter#parenting
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thinkin about edd today
#apparently im one of those fans that loves to torture edd#but it aint my fault his parents dont love him#i imagine eddy's mom knows hes alone a lot and invites him to join them for thanksgiving but he's like#“i have no idea what youre talking about mrs. mcgee my parents who definitely love me are home right now yes indeedy”#then he goes home to heat up his little free range turkey and whole wheat stuffing and eats alone at a big empty table#if he's feeling dangerous he might eat on the couch and watch PBS#after dinner he calls eddy who regales him with stories about fucked up relatives#and he almost considers himself lucky for not having a close-knit family#i kinda picture edd moving to pc from out of state so his extended family doesn't live close#of course his parents might get the occasional holiday off so im sure he's not alone every year but#idk i've embarrassed myself before by sharing my thoughts about edd's parents and i'm sure it won't be the last#i'd like to write a long overly dramatic fic about a day in his life that takes place in the timeline of the show#but im knee deep in angst as it is#text
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Me: I am a grown ass man who is hungry and I am going to eat this entire burger
My 2-year-old, hands outstretched: bur-gah?
Also me: How are you so cute. Fine. You may have my burger.
[Every time. Every damn time]
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Do you think that if (never) the pale king and white lady had non voided children, they would still be independent like ghost? Or would they have been small and helpless like baby hornet? Was it the void caused them to be larger and self sustaining?
I was always operating off the assumption that they would be independant, and that PK and WL's role as parents would be more that of mentors than what we would traditionally call parents.
I assumed as such because WL is a rooted being (who offers little to no help to their offspring, other than perhaps send them some nutrients via roots if they survive), and PK is a wyrm, which is based off of the draconic/reptilian creatures of our myths, which have variable care ranging from next to none (common in most reptiles) to pretty damn good-amazing (crocs and birds). I based PK's instincts off of crocs, but even then the babies will feed and care for themselves, while the parents simply make sure that they aren't preyed upon. Still amazing parents, but not by our standards, because, well- their kids simply don't need it
Additionally, the way I see it, bugs used to have a such hands-off care for their young before they started to evolve higher cognition, which required a big brain that took a long time to grow, resulting in more vulnerable young that needed longer and more intense parental care. Since mortals live relatively short lives, this parenting reflex evolved to match the needs of their young, but the gods still retain that ancestral character state. This isn't because they're dumb- far from it- but rather because the only selective pressures on their extremely long lives come from other gods, so they simply haven't evolved away from the strat of sending their kids off into the world to fend for themselves, because long-term parental care (at least, long-term in their lifespans) just isn't worth the resource sink
Tdlr: nah the vessels are just naturally beefed up, the void got nothing to do with it. This is pure headcanon though, I'm just going off what I assumed when I saw hatchling morph godlings killing their elders in-game
#hollow knight#hollow knight headcanons#the vessels are low maintinance free range babies by default#void just made them a threat to their parents which is why they nuked 'em or shoved 'em in the death pit#anon#reply
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Y’all I’m in a house with four cats in it
#I’m thriving#Rosa is staying in my room#my parents are currently keeping the kittens in their room#and then Izzy has free range
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How I was raised: It takes two to fight! If you can't play nicely together I will take it away. I don't play referee.
How I am raising my kids: Did you get your friend's consent? How can you solve this problem, do you have an ideas? You can have a turn and then they can have a turn; do you want me to set a timer?
#parenting#cptsdsurvivor#actually autism#actually ADHD#actually neurodivergent#hyperactive kids#free range kids#actually autistic#consensual living#ex christian#ex fundamentalist#ex fundie#ex evangelical
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Shicmuon really got them craziest cracked genes ever
#wait let me find more flattering ones his parents literal monsters (in reference to their power and overall everything)#so you got this reckless lookin’ actually always somehow 3 steps ahead dude with the brains and brawns of a main character#and this lady who can turn into a magical beast and got this cool ancestrial thingy magic thing idk anymore but like op as hell#and their love ended in a tragedy but holy damn#shicmuon is like the personality of both his parents at their craziest without a valve restriction thing#the parents got struggles and circumstances and each other kind of calmed the whole insane thing but i know damn well its underlining#shicmuon really got to fully unleash the combine unresticted cracked nature of the both#lanoste really went well you know i had to reign in all my life and i dont really know of fathering and griefed and disappeared to so eh#mans was like imma miss like the first several years of your childhood due to the empire keeping ya but let me just go around and through#politics and personel make a force to be reckoned with and grt ya lil boi back and then give him just free range#anyways#ranble#personal#black haze#manhwa#manhwa blogging#lanoste#shicmuon#eperia#mans a legendary crazy magician AND the heir to the archduke whose position is only under the emperial king but also is over since hes got#them pure blood and all that#not mcyt
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on the one hand it feels really good to be performing again but on the other it's been literally years since my last live performance and I feel SO rusty
#i dont think i really anticipated the difference it would make#like going from 4 years of having to sing at performance level like 4/7 days a week#and even just having the structure of a college/uni schedule#to... nothing#no structure#no standards to meet#stuck in my parents' house#feeling like I'm just gonna be an annoyance being loud#booking the rehearsal rooms helps but#i cant afford to do it often#i mostly only go in when they send me a discount code or free credit#my voice just isn't what it was 3 years ago#esp since ive developed the post-nasal drip that i just cant seem to shift#it makes me clear my throat too much#and i can FEEL the damage#and my range just isnt what it was#hopefully today is a positive step forward#and not just a one-off#jamie's chitchat
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sometimes applying real world ethics to media can be fun for analysis but most times yous just need to hold back ur common sense. ‘the parents from parent trap are the worst parents in movie history can you imagine abandoning one of your children’ hmm do you think that maybe them forcing apart two halves after their divorce is somewhat significant to story being told??? that there could possibly be some sort of allegory in these two halves reuniting and sewing them back together??? hmm??
HALLIE AND ANNIE WERE TWO HALVES OF A LOCKET OKAY THATS WHY THEY EACH HAD ONE HALF OF THE PHOTO. THEIR LONGING TO MEET THEIR UNKOWN PARENT REPRESENTS THE LONGING NICK AND ELIZABETH STILL HAVE FOR EACH OTHER. THE FACT THE TWINS COULD ONLY SET THINGS IN MOTION AFTER TAKING TIME TO LEARN HOW TO LIVE THE OTHER’S LIFE SHOWCASES THE SOLUTION TO NICK AND ELIZABETH’S ISSUES.
#but no! fake parents bad!#the parent trap#this movie is my dna i will punch u#yes yes it is obviously bad parenting but look deeper!#or go watch parent free range or something idk#romance
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I saw a post about wanting a dog and running free but not being able to have that as a child and crying over seeing your own child running free with the dog. I saw it was made by you, reblogging your own post
And it resonated with me, so I went to like it. But then Tumblr wouldn't let me, there was something going wrong. So I thought oh well it's not that far down my following feed, I'll just restart the app and try again. And now it's gone, I scrolled until it wouldn't let me scroll anymore
I tried to look it up on your page, scrolling and searching. It's just gone
I just wanted to say that that post resonated deeply with me, in a way. And I know it might not quite have been the way it was intended to be taken but i could relate it somewhat to something quite personal for me
And I just wanted you to know that I would have liked that post, maybe even reblogged it, and it made me really feel things
What I mean is, thank you for that post
[I deleted the original, but I can remember it pretty well, so here’s a reiteration]
The experience of reading Where The Red Fern Grows as a child and feeling deeply about it; spending years wishing you could have a dog (that wasn’t supposed to sleep in the bed, but when mom isn’t looking you let them, and the two of you fall asleep curled up together, like littermates) and wanting to run wild and free with them through the woods, to pound the earth with your feet and fog the air with your breath as the two of you live the Ancient Kinship of Human and Dog;
But there are no woods to run through; the police will ticket you for even having a dog on a leash in most places; god forbid the two of you run wild and free; and besides your mom is alone so she’s always tired trying to raise you and doesn’t have the energy to raise a dog too so you never get one;
And the decades pass and you forget; first how much it ached, that Want; and then, gradually, eventually, finally, mercifully, you forget that you ever wanted it at all;
And one day you finally make it out of the city and you meet a woman and fall in love and she has a dog and it looks just like you always imagined you’d like for your dog to look and the dog falls in love with you as much as the woman does and the woman says things like she must really like you she never does this with anyone as the dog curls up next to you to sleep (like littermates)
And one day the woman gives you a Child and you have the surreal experience of meeting someone who laughs like you and cries like you and makes your faces back at you and you fall in love with this beautiful little Human and you teach him how to run and how to say “dog!”
And one day you’re in the woods with this little person who looks out at the world through eyes that are so eerily like yours and he’s running with your dog and they are wild and joyful and free in the Ancient Kinship of Dog and Human And
I Love you, little one.
I Love you so much.
I hope you never understand my tears
#troglodyte thoughts#free range sustainable shitpost#druid life#writing#animals#dog#child#parenting#healing the scars of a hard childhood#by giving my son a gentler one#I love you#little guy#where the red fern grows
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I know everyone has said everything there is to say in a character analysis of Zuko, but sometimes I have to sit back in aw of the sheer range on that boy. Is there a character he can’t act as a literary foil to?
#atla#zuko#the only main character I don't think he's a literary foil to is Hakoda#like azula and all her friends#everyone in the gaang#jet#iroh#his parents#maybe not suki#wait yes Suki#their parallel decision to free Appa for different reasons#both of which put them under the thumb of Azula#the range
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When it comes to raising children, everyone has their approach. Researchers who have spent years examining the effects of various parenting methods on children have concluded that there is no such thing as the best approach to raising children.
#freerange parenting#free range parenting style#free range parenting laws#free-range parenting toddler#what is free range parenting
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Thinking about how I would write an adult Scooby-Doo series, because I think it can be done.
The first thing I’d do is make the characters actually be adults. Still young, but adults, in the mid to late 20s range. Mystery Inc. is a private detective type business that they run together. In this universe, the supernatural/ghosts/etc are real, but not necessarily common, so when they take on a case, the culprit might be a person disguised as a monster, or it might actually be a real ghost. The stakes can be higher; sometimes a bad guy is legitimately trying to kill them. Sometimes the mystery they’re trying to solve is a murder. Sometimes they actually get hurt on their cases.
Fred: the core of Fred’s character should be that he’s incredibly kind. Like, give a stranger the shirt off his back kind. The “Fred can’t talk to potential clients because he might take a case for free and we need to eat” kind. He’s an honest and good person and sometimes gets himself into trouble because he assumes other people are too. While he’s not very good at reading people or noticing ulterior motives, he’s brilliant when it comes to mechanical or engineering type stuff, so he’s the one who keeps the mystery machine running, builds their gadgets, and of course, designs the traps.
Daphne: she comes from old money, and her parents absolutely despise her life choices, to the point where they haven’t officially disowned her, but they have basically cut her off, so she doesn’t actually have access to any family money. Growing up wealthy has granted her a variety of skills, including speaking multiple languages, horseback riding, and fencing. She’s very into fashion and jewelry (even if she can’t afford it anymore) and has extensive knowledge of both that can occasionally provide a vital clue in a case. And even though her parents have cut her off, Daphne still has a wide network of contacts she can ask for favors sometimes, because she’s personable, and people tend to like her. Daphne is also very emotionally intelligent, and is usually the one who can spot when someone is lying to them.
Side note - I ship Fred and Daphne, so I think I would start them off as an established couple for this universe. Dating, engaged, married, I don’t care. They are stupidly in love, ride or die for each other. There’s no will they, won’t they, no worries about cheating. They are in a healthy, happy, loving relationship, and no one (not even Daphne’s disapproving parents) are going to mess that up for them.
Velma: she is the forensics nerd who sometimes gets super excited about the wrong thing at the wrong time (”He was mummified in seconds? That’s so cool!” “Velma! His wife is standing right there!” “Oh. Sorry.”). She’s not purposely insensitive, she just gets laser focused on her work and forgets to filter herself sometimes. She’s also the one who can get so fixated on solving whatever mystery they’re working on, she’s willing to bend or maybe break laws. Is breaking and entering really so bad? Not if it gets them answers.
Shaggy: he is still the comic relief, but he’s the comic relief by being the only person in the group that actually has common sense. He manages the business’s finances, he’s the only one who knows how to cook, and the others tease him for being a coward sometimes, but Shaggy maintains that if a ghost with an axe is coming for you, running is the only sensible option. He should also have a range of random knowledge that sounds useless, but sometimes saves the day (ex ventriloquism, origami, the history of spoons, etc).
Scooby: as this is a universe where supernatural creatures exist, Scooby is an ancient eldritch type being that took a shine to Shaggy when he was a kid, and took the form of a talking dog to befriend and hang out with him. Aside from the talking dog bit and not aging, he never uses his powers in a way that anyone notices. The audience is not told upfront that Scooby is an ancient eldritch being; it should slowly be hinted at throughout the series so the audience put it together, but the characters never realize it. Scooby genuinely considers Shaggy to be his best friend, and cares about the rest of the gang too.
#ink speaks#scooby doo#i like the vibes of a grown up scooby doo#where they're part of a mystery solving business#it needs to be a monster of the week type deal#so that it can play around with the character dynamics#because i think that's fun#long post
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"I am your parent, you are my child. I am your quiet place, you are my wild." - Maryanne Cusimano
I often added to and manipulated those words over the years.
I am the parent. I am the adult. I will not expect a child tobe the grown-up. I will not expect the child to be the mature one. I don't expect children to be able to do what adults can't. I don't expect children to do what adults refuse to do.
I am my quiet place. I am my calm. Don't panic, the least helpful thing is to panic. Breathe. Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. Be methodical. Be deliberate.
You are my wild, my storm, my forest fire, my rabid wolverine. You can have my quiet, my cool, my gentle. I have enough to share. I made it myself.
The amygdala really reacts, and when it does the thinky-thinky part of the brain turn off. It's not the time for explaining, or discussion, or compromise. Logic will not work, there is no being rational. There is currently a power outage.
Did your kid just scream "I hate you?" or "You're the worst!" That's good, that's the prefrontal cortex power cycling and turning hitting, biting and scratching impulses into words instead of actions. "No you don't" will be taken as a counterattack. Instead try "It feels like that, doesn't it?".
Deescalate.
Avoid talking, but if you can't:
"I can see you are very overwhelmed right now."
"You are having a lot of big feelings right now, and it can be very scary. How can I help?"
"Would you like a cup of water?"
"May I give you a hug?" No. "May I put my hand on your shoulder?" No "I don't want you to feel alone. I will sit next to you for now."
Redirect
Kid trying to hit? Turn it into a high five. Another high five over here, on the left, on the right, up high, down low. Whoa you got me! Move your hand slowly - coordinating the eye movements to track your hand will help with turning the power back on.
If it makes your kid angry, stop. "If you want to hit, I can get you a pillow and you can hit that. I won't let you hurt me".
Smash rocks, crush cans, break pencils, play with dough or slimes.
Draw with markers, especially Sharpies. On paper or cardboard, or on skin. Narrate. This is my anger spot it looks like a black cloud and here is the lightening and a tornado. Here is a family of squirrels hiding in their burrow to stay safe.
#dysfunctional family#social emotional learning#parenting#self healing#anger#anger management#tantrum#free range kids#kids#big mood#explosive#explosive anger#IED#intergenerational trauma#intermittent explosive disorder#oppositional defiant disorder#adhd brain#hyperactive kids#attention deprived#actually autism#actually neurodivergent#actually adhd#actually anxiety#early childhood#childhood anxiety#overwhelmed
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worst part about teaching english to kids is when their parents insist on sitting in the lesson and staring at me 💀 like my dude how would you do your job if someone was staring at you the whole time pls have some mercy 😭😭
#like i understand that they want to know what we're doing and where their money is going but pls i'm scared 😭😭😭#let me just do my thing#i do not remember one instance when my mother sat through a lesson like this when i was little#these new age parents love to micromanage their kids lives#to an extent that i don't think was common when i was young#we were much more free-range 😂#personal
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