tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792632442488988050.post5538744023247824319..comments2023-06-06T02:01:42.011-07:00Comments on Unschooling is Dreamy!: What makes a Magical Childhood?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792632442488988050.post-12846666808366833642010-02-06T18:09:48.446-08:002010-02-06T18:09:48.446-08:00Magical moments of my childhood:
-Playing rapturo...Magical moments of my childhood:<br /><br />-Playing rapturously in the exquisite red-clay mud of Georgia<br />-Playing in the creek and woods behind our house in upstate New York<br />-Seeing gifts under the Christmas tree that I believed had been brought by Santa<br />-Walking home from school through a field of goldenrod<br />-Being freaked out by the spooky broken beer bottles left in the woods by wicked partying teenagers<br />-Stumbling across a half-dozen abandoned rusty cars in the woods that still had old newspapers from the 1950s in them<br />-Reading, reading, reading!<br />-Falling in love with old black and white movies from the 1930s and 1940s<br />-Sledding downhill while holding hands with friends on their sleds, crashing into each other before landing with a huge thump on the frozen creek at the bottom of the hill<br /><br /><br />I think those are some of the main ones. . .Carrie Pomeroyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09202031508702130658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792632442488988050.post-47707808832881439922010-02-04T18:31:41.454-08:002010-02-04T18:31:41.454-08:00Hey, I've never thought about that before, but...Hey, I've never thought about that before, but you're totally right when I think about the childhood memories that I regularly go over and over in my mind (the good ones, that is...) and the Christmas one too...which is sad for me b/c i've never been able to "recreate" those memories, hard as i've tried since i left for college...<br /><br />what about x-country skiing w/ the Bloodsworth girls and laughing our asses off when we'd crash at the bottom of a windy hill? or when we'd make emily or val go first down a giant scary hill? :-)<br /><br />epmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792632442488988050.post-41361258413917743862010-01-31T14:18:59.570-08:002010-01-31T14:18:59.570-08:00i love this post, danna. i am so conscious of enco...i love this post, danna. i am so conscious of encouraging time in nature for the kids. i think this is also why i am drawn to waldorf--for the magic! and yes, it's so about me and my wonderful memories of time spent outside as a kid. my most vivid memories. free time, hours of it, outside w/ my siblings and the neighborhood kids. the tree house, creek, catching frogs and turtles, rolling down the hill in the grass, climbing trees, playing tag, hide and seek, pretending we didn't have parents and lived out in the forest by ourselves...i especially loved the summers when we would come in to eat dinner and then get to go back outside! the other special memories i have are of spending time with extended family at birthday parties, holidays, etc. that's why it just about broke my heart to move out here to california this summer across the coast from my family after spending 2 months with them and seeing the kids bond and have a blast with their family. but they are also a big part of the reason i am doing the presence process now, so i guess nature is the way to go!Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00941652652430563401noreply@blogger.com