For the first time since she was
a child in the commune, she belongs to something.
Not exact matches
I first heard of homeschooling as a
child growing up
in a college town
in New England, when the only people who homeschooled their
children were hippies living on
communes in the country or academics and political activists protesting against the regimented and regimenting education «the system» provided for its own repressive purposes.
How was life
in the
communes turning out for the
children?
I listen to Presbyterian preaching,
commune with Catholics, pray for Mary's intercession, sing non-denominational worship music, memorize Scripture like an evangelical and teach my
children how to find the love of God
in all things.
But Rogers says,
in speaking of
communes: «There are a number of paternal persons, men and women, who take a hand
in [the
child's upbringing]....
My
children will have approximately 1 / 7th greater life experiences because they won't be wasting a day trying to
commune with a non-existent all - powerful being with pathological tendencies, if you base his existence on what you read
in the various religious texts some men (no women) wrote several thousand years ago.
Rohan spent time living
in his father's sprawling home on Hope Road
in Kingston, a place described
in Timothy White's 1983 biography of Bob, Catch a Fire, as «a religious hippie
commune, with an abundance of food, herb,
children, music and casual sex.»
Mine had me born and raised
in an apocalyptic religious cult, growing up as
child labor
in cult
communes, spending far too much time out begging
in the cold, and having my education stopped completely when I was 12.
Yes when I lived
in a
commune one woman spoke lovingly of the births of her
children & had photo's of the birth.
Born into an apocalyptic cult and raised
in communes across the globe, she was denied an education beyond 6th grade and spent her adolescence as
child labor.