School's Out! ♦ Time for Windsock Parenting

A windsock is just about as good an image for the end of a school year as anything else.


It's Tethered Freedom.

Certainly in parent-directed homeschools there is never a complete severing of the ties that bind growing minds to scholarly exploration. Even in families where formal schooling is relegated to the paid professionals, learning does not come to a complete standstill over the summer months. Like a windsock, real learning is free to flutter in new directions once the student leaves the scripted classroom setting.


Never Underestimate the Swivel Clip.

It is not alluring or flashy. It does not catch your eye and hold you under its enchantment. In fact, the best ones are easily overlooked. Good parenting is often like the swivel clip. It holds securely enough to keep a child grounded, to keep him from breaking loose and falling away; yet gives him his 360°s of mobility for room to grow.