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I am a liberal-minded homeschool mom who is constantly trying to find that elusive state of balance in my life while enjoying my two energetic, yet vastly different boys.

Our wisdom is all mixed up with what we call our neurosis. Our brilliance, our juiciness, our spiciness, is all mixed up with our craziness and our confusion, therefore it doesn’t do any good to try to get rid of our so-called negative aspects, because in that process we also get rid of our basic wonderfulness.

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Sunday
Sep162007

Mystery Solved

I first heard the Throwing Marshmallows quote after which this blog is named when I was reading the Unschooling.com bulletin boards years ago. I loved it and asked the author if I could use it as my signature line. She agreed. I don't remember how long I used it as a sig line. When I started thinking about a name for my blog, that quote came back to me and seemed like a perfect name. But somehow I had lost the name of the person who had said it! I tried going back to unschooling.com, but could not find any reference to it. I also tried googling it, but no luck. So I decided to attribute it to "anonymous".

This morning I got an email from a woman who said that she was the originator of that quote! Yea! Finally. A name to go with the quote!

So thank you Barbara Lamping for your wonderfully visual and accurate quote:

"Learning can only happen when a child is interested. If he's not interested it's like throwing marshmallows at his head and calling it eating." - Barbara Lamping

 

Reader Comments (6)

So she found you!

September 16, 2007 | Unregistered Commenterkim

I always wondered who said that! Now the mystery is solved. :)

September 16, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterSummer

[...] again and again, in my efforts to involve my older daughter in more science. I get very tired of throwing marshmallows (they get stale). So I borrowed some “Hogwarts Science” from a unit titled “A [...]

[...] normally explore, such as biology and Latin. Preparing her for college and for life or throwing marshmallows? It’s hard to say for [...]

Katrina Gutleben, who used to post as katgut, is the one who wrote it on Unschooling.com. I've never heard of Barbara Lamping except here. If you have an e-mail for her, I'd be glad to contact her and clear it up.

Thanks.

April 22, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterSandra Dodd

Thanks for the heads up. I will email you and hopefully we can get things straightened out.

April 23, 2010 | Registered CommenterStephanie

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