Learning Disabled

Today Musa decided he wanted to be the *teacher.*  He said I had to sit down and learn whatever he chose for me to learn. I told him this was not really keeping with the idea of unschooling and he further explained that unschooling only refers to the kids. I am not to sure I like that explanation, but for whatever reason, it was obvious he had a need to be in control so I went with it.

He decided that I needed to learn how to play the Playstation. Excuse me I stand corrected, Playstation2. (See, I am already an unruly student) Now...let me first shed a little background...I was born in the 50's. I have a VERY clear memory of when the coolest techno thing around was when we got a COLOR television. Not only was I born in the time of the caveman, I was also raised in a town of 1,200 in Montana. Even tho we finally got color TV we only had two stations. CBS was one and NBC/ABC shared the othe station. I am NOT kidding. The next big techno excitement was when I got my orange stereo for Christmas when I was 15. It had round speakers with orange polka dots and a orange transparent dust cover for the turntable. (Musa's eyes are rolling back in his head) Now this doesn't mean I don't know a thing about Playstations...I did have an Atari, for God's sake.

So Musa sat me down and gave me the general lesson, he started me out easy with Monsters. INC. He was a great teacher, very patient with me, explaining things clearly, even encouraging me (lying to me) and told me often I was doing a good job. The truth is I suck. I CAN'T DO IT. I AM A DORK.

I have a completely new admiration for these video games. I can totally see their value. You really have to do like 8 things at once, and it helps much if you don't suffer from short term memory loss. How am I supposed to remember what door I just came through? (Musa was in hysterics at this point) 

I finally gave up. Stomping my feet, waving my arms in the air, almost coming to tears, " I CAN"T DO THIS, IT IS JUST TOO HARD, IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!" To which Musa smiled slyly and said, "Now, you know how I felt when we used to do spelling."

I really do understand......