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When my kid was about 1 1/2, several years ago, he fell on his face putting a gash at the bridge of his nose. We took him to an urgent care. They stiched the wound while my wife and I held him down for about 20 minutes. They didn't use an anesthetic. I assumed that they didn't use anesthetics because of his age and because they had legitimate concerns about side-effects, but now I'm more sceptical. Did I do the right thing in allowing them to not use anesthecis? If not, what can I do in the future to ensure I do the right thing in this kind of situation? Thanks.

Can you recommend any good unschooling resources such as books and podcasts? I've read (listened to) "Radical Unschooling: A Revolution Has Begun" but I found it unpersuasive (though I thought it was a good book) http://www.audible.com/pd/Self-Development/Radical-Unschooling-Audiobook/B008UYG5CA Thanks.

Thank you for all your thoughtful responses and book suggestion. Either way, he's very curious as it is and it would be silly for me to incentivise him in any way at this time - and I'm sure it will probably be like that for a while. Hopefully, unschooling will begin to make more sense to me as I learn more about it and I can just let his curiosity dictate his curriculum.

Hello FDR community. I have a 3 1/2 year-old son for whom I've been working hard lately to design a homeschool curriculum which is rational and sustainable. I appreciate the concept of unschooling but I have reservation about it - I don't want him to be unprepared for college (should he chose to go) due to a non-coarsive unschooling curriculum which would may leave him without a grounding in non-academic-type stuff like math, grammar, science, etc. My solution - and it seems very resonable to me - is to pay him (as if he were my employ) for doing the typical state-based curriculum. The payment scheme would be based on performance - so more for A's than B's and so on. I also look foward to his learning to negotiate higher wages with me since I want to train him for the real world, after all. This would also be for non-state-based stuff such as certain area's of philosophy (especially basic epistomology and logic), computer usage, debating skills, critital thinking, which may or may not interest him much. So the long and short of it is: Is paying for a child to do curriculum rational and moral?

How much do you expect that will make you a month? I'm starting to wonder if that would help pay for my EC2 VM's.