Blake Boles
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817 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2019
last heard Dec 2022
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limited games.
Her research says that about twenty hours a week, which is about three hours a day, is uh like the perhaps ideal amount of gaming.
Once you get up to forty hours a week or more than that, then she says the negative effects of gaming will outweigh the positive effects.
Yes, please.
Well, definitely grab a copy of my book, Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?
That'll start you off in the right direction.
Um I think that there's already a lot of evidence in most people's lives for the power of self-directed learning.
And take a look at what your kids already do in a naturally engaged way and and look at that and say, can I imagine myself feeling comfortable letting my kid do that incrementally more?
It doesn't have to be 100% of the time in the beginning.
One of my favorite definitions of unschooling, I'll paraphrase, is giving your kids as much freedom as you can comfortably bear, you the parent.
And so I I believe that came from John Holt.
And that's important, the comfortably bear part, because if you have this sort of dogmatic idea that the only way for your kid to become a self-directed learner is to completely let them do whatever they want all the time, I think that's
The most likely outcome of that situation is that the pendulum will swing in the other direction.
You will freak out and clamp down and say, okay, we tried the self-directed learning thing.
It didn't work.
So start with baby steps.
Say, okay, the stuff that my kid is really into is uh horseback riding and knitting.
Can I imagine those things going from extracurriculars uh that are done at
After school, into something that my kid is is really diving into and that I'm going to support my kid in doing at a higher level.
If you can imagine that, then I think you are definitely a candidate for doing something that's more self-directed, more unschooly.
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