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    • CommentAuthorAnonymous
    • CommentTimeDec 6th 2004 edited
     # 1

    Okay so I saw the trading spouses episode, and that has to have been some of the best television I have ever seen. But from the editing they gave the impression that you didn't own a television (which you do), and they didn't mention that you had marketable software skills. So there was obviously some spin to play up the unconventional life.

    However there was one thing that I gotta ask about. You all sleep in the same room! That sort of creeps me out. What is the deal with that? Isn't that, er, a little too close?

    • CommentAuthorAnonymous
    • CommentTimeDec 7th 2004 edited
     # 2

    I really don't see the problem with the room thing. It's not like everyone's naked or anything. I sleep in my parents bedroom too because i feel more comfy and safe. All through grade school and high school i've slept there. I just don't want to be alone in my room when i'm sleeping, and besides my bed room creaps me out. But occasionally i get to use my bed now.
    anyway, you don't do anything in bed but sleep.

    I don't really see the problem with it. and isn't the bed the whole room? I kind of forgot what your bedroom looks like.

  1.  # 3

    They also made it look like the Abbotts didn't know what Taoism is!

    Prior to the show airing, I had quite a discussion with a young woman who is a public school teacher, about home schooling. She is totally against it (special interest perhaps?) because 'kids need to be with other kids'. She also thought Carl must be controlling. It's funny to me that people are so afraid of indoctrination when the supposed indoctrination is not the same as the way they were indoctrinated! Don't public schools indoctrinate children? Don't peers agree on a very specific code of behavior? Would we rather have children aspiring to be like the Dalai Lama or Britney Spears?

    • CommentAuthorMs. Frizzle
    • CommentTimeDec 7th 2004 edited
     # 4

    It's funny you should say that because my brother in law is about to marry a woman who is a grade 4 teacher in a public school, and she says she will NEVER send her kids to school. She plans to homeschool them.
    I think it's very sad that so many people seem to think that a homeschooled kid doens't have any other way of meeting people.

    Lynn Cornish:

    Prior to the show airing, I had quite a discussion with a young woman who is a public school teacher, about home schooling. She is totally against it (special interest perhaps?) because 'kids need to be with other kids'. She also thought Carl must be controlling. It's funny to me that people are so afraid of indoctrination when the supposed indoctrination is not the same as the way they were indoctrinated! Don't public schools indoctrinate children? Don't peers agree on a very specific code of behavior? Would we rather have children aspiring to be like the Dalai Lama or Britney Spears?

    • CommentAuthorLuke Abbott
    • CommentTimeDec 8th 2004 edited
     # 5

    The long discussion regarding families sharing one bedroom has been moved to it's own thread . . . just trying to keep things in order here.

    See here: http://www.centertao.org/viewtopic.php?t=68

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