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Posts by Shan Jeniah Burton

Shan Jeniah Burton lives in upstate New York with her husband, 10-year-old son, Jeremiah; and 7-year old daughter, Annalise. Writing is the thread that weaves through all the other parts of her life.  She blogs regularly about unschooling at The Unfettered Life and on writing at "shanjeniah.”

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Sometimes There Is No Right Way

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“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche 

I was raised in a home where a very common phrase was, “There’s a right way and a wrong way.”

The right way was the way my parents wanted things done. There were a great many rules surrounding the right way for nearly everything, in an attempt to ensure that we got it right, and, when the rules weren’t enough to enforce the rightness of our behavior, there were punishments, harsh words, and sometimes …