After several long discussions with my son today about what it is REALLY like to be a child, I felt much more compelled to have a great day and to bring my children along. Yes, he is right. I do not remember what it feels like to be small. I do not remember how it was to have someone else setting the limits all the time.
Of course with radical unschooling I try to do things differently. But it will take a lot for me to get all the way, to live in a rule-less house. So for now it is enough to eat some chocolate with them, get silly on the tricycle, learn to understand Pirates of the Caribbean and hold my tongue when I feel the constant urge to say 'But...'
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