Kanard

...maybe because I got sleep, or because my house is almost finished getting repaired, or because I’m loved and love so many people…

Also I’m happy I can write in my phone to 43 things …though the page is a little glitchy..haha…it flickers all over the place….

Andy, Eddie, and Kami all had a taste of public school, Kami only Kindergarten but that was enough for her to utter the words “I HATE SCHOOL” more than once.
Pepi is 100% unschooled, and she is the one I base my observations on the most, is like looking at uncontaminated waters to better judge the “unschooling process”, not that my other kids aren’t benefiting from it, because they are.
The thing with Pepi is that I can see her instant learning appear like magic, and I know nobody taught her something she wasn’t interested in learning at the time.
She has been guided by her curiosity all through her life, and at 7 years of age, she knows about the same academic concepts kids her age are learning in school but with a practical use in her life.
Maybe she doesn’t know everything they are teaching in second grade, but the same can be said about a second grader, they may be covering a lot of material but they aren’t learning it all because their focus is not 100% in what they are learning since their interests are others than what people think they should be learning. What Pepi learns she is into, invested with all of herself. She knows other things that they aren’t learning in 2d grade, and perhaps even highschool students aren’t even learning about.
Unschooling allows a kid to become an expert in the things they love, and discriminate what they have no use for until they do.

I’ve been thinking about it lately…
There are people out there that rely on the thoughts of others to make their life a success.
I met some of these people as a kid.
One time I was drawing and made a picture of the interior of a house that made me very happy, proportions, perspective, everything was there, but with a lot of erasing and rethinking.
There comes a girl and copies my finished drawing exactly but clean(since she didn’t have to do all the thinking).
She gets an A, and I don’t…
That made me so angry, and I felt cheated.

The vampires didn’t stop there, they have been around all my life, some are blunt and take the ideas exactly, others are courteous vampires who give credit to their sources, and there are even those vampires who take and try to destroy you after, I feel sorry for this kind because like vampires they have to rely on others to survive.

That doesn’t mean being inspired by others is becoming a vampire all the time, it is human nature to imitate, and that keeps us going forward. Someone improves someone else’s ideas and we advance.

I learned to live with them, and even appreciate some of them.

And in a way the little blood they suck does not kill me, and if it does some good to the world by proxy…good, even if the world doesn’t know, I get a satisfaction to know that something in me sparked others to catch on fire.

I do recognize myself in their work and makes me go hmmmmm really?