Comments on: School ‘Adjustment’ https://happinessishereblog.com/school-adjustment/ Documenting life without school and free childhood. Fri, 01 Jun 2018 10:42:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.10 By: How School Breeds Fear and Anxiety | Happiness is here https://happinessishereblog.com/school-adjustment/#comment-90419 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 10:42:02 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=10568#comment-90419 […] You could say I ‘adjusted‘. […]

]]> By: No Adult Would Tolerate School | Happiness is here https://happinessishereblog.com/school-adjustment/#comment-84436 Mon, 16 Oct 2017 03:51:55 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=10568#comment-84436 […] if children are unhappy at first, they adjust. Some kids even come to love […]

]]> By: Helping Children Adjust to School https://happinessishereblog.com/school-adjustment/#comment-80844 Wed, 12 Jul 2017 09:59:38 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=10568#comment-80844 […] Maybe instead of dismissing their behaviour as ‘normal’, we should listen. The message they are sending is loud and clear and in any other situation it would be taken seriously. But because it’s related to school it’s seen as necessary and expected and therefore not a big deal. Maybe children should be educated in ways that better meet their biological needs. Maybe we should demand that that happens. And if it doesn’t? Maybe we should opt-out altogether. – Sara from Happiness is here. […]

]]> By: If you want your child to adjust to school, don’t respectfully parent https://happinessishereblog.com/school-adjustment/#comment-77709 Tue, 16 May 2017 08:53:50 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=10568#comment-77709 […] perhaps the reality is far more sinister than this quote first appears; how well a child adjusts to a cage seems to come down to how effectively you’ve conditioned them to forget their […]

]]> By: Calliope Woods https://happinessishereblog.com/school-adjustment/#comment-31902 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 19:51:15 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=10568#comment-31902 Oh my goodness Sara! I’m catching up with your blog after a little bit of being distracted by other things and this post just hit me hard. It reminds me of an article I wrote about a month ago about school being inherently traumatic: https://medium.com/@CalliopeWoods/we-should-talk-about-school-trauma-96c104095b1b#.mal7lpqqr

I’m glad I’m not the only one that’s noticed this. :/

]]> By: Anne https://happinessishereblog.com/school-adjustment/#comment-30675 Fri, 18 Mar 2016 17:07:35 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=10568#comment-30675 My Sophea will be finishing first grade this year and she still hasn’t adapted. I really wish I had started planning this earlier. It makes me sad to see so many of the symptoms in the list in my own child. I worry because we live in such a cold climate that being outside for a good part of the year is difficult and our community is very small. I’m unsure how to keep them involved in life for those months.

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