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CERTIFICATE
OF EMPOWERMENT
As bearer of this certificate you are no longer required to depend on
the advice of experts. You may step back and view the entire world--not
just your home, neighborhood or town, but the whole Earth--as a learning
experience, a laboratory containing languages (and native speakers
thereof), plants, animals, history, geology, weather (real live weather,
in the sky, not in a book), music, art , mathematics, physics,
engineering, foods, human dynamics, and ideas without end. Although
collections of these treasures have been located in museums for your
convenience, they are to be found everywhere else, too.
This authorizes you to experiment; to trust and enjoy your kids; to
rejoice when your children surpass you in skill, knowledge or wisdom; to
make mistakes, and to say "I don't know." Furthermore, you may
allow your children to experience boredom without taking full
responsibility for finding them something to do.
Henceforth you shall neither be required nor expected to finish
everything you start. Projects, books, experiments and plans may be
discontinued as soon as something more interesting comes along (or for
any other reason) without penalty, and picked up again at any time in
the future (or never).
You may reclaim control of your family's daily life, and take what steps
you feel necessary to protect your children from physical, emotional or
social harm.
You have leave to think your own thoughts, and to encourage your
children to think theirs.
Each person who reads and understands this is authorized to extend these
privileges to others, by reproducing and distributing this certificate
or by creating another of his/her own design. Those who don't feel the
need to obtain approval to experiment, to think, or to do things they've
never seen others do are exempt, as they didn't need permission in the
first place.
Sandra Dodd
e-mail the author: SandraDodd@SandraDodd.com
Radical Unschooling @ www.SandraDodd.com
Unschooling.info
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