our lives move daily
one of them is the comfort zone that
area in which we move day by day
in which is everything we know what
everyday the familiar for example the
work habits
the normal day-to-day routines
Whether we like it or not, we are there
used and weights in part of the
landscape
there is another area that is called the zone of
learning
there are some of the people who
they are in this comfort zone and they
they move there because because they
they want to face challenges they want
face soon ideals of the
society that the dissenters want
face fears this the
question is how does it
it can be for example traveling
learning new languages by acquiring
new habits
the important thing here is to see that these
challenges are leading to changes and the
changes are those that are going to make possible
that there are development developments at the level
personal or social level
they say that most of the people in the
world population is located
immersed in this comfort zone and very
few have decided to give that little jump to
the learning zone
what can this be our lives
are somehow programmed by
a series of ideals that society is
the society that is in the area of
comfort has inculcated us from small
these ideals and I will say it in my
case can be considered as a
sort of a chain of requirements that
are going to be led to think what it is that
you need to be successful to be
happy to feel satisfied with your
lifetime
in my case it was the following study in
such or what the school then happens to
study directly to this or that
university and there he studies this or that
career because unfortunately it is
the mentality that not all
careers are successful after a
postgraduate
I hope you gas with a doctorate because this
in theory it’s going to be guaranteed that you have
the possibility of working in a
successful company hopefully the longest
possible for some
a pension will come to a
retirement and being able to do everything that is not
You could do it because I was busy
working
fortunately when I was finishing
to study architecture in Bogota in
Colombia and at the same time I worked
in a construction company it
presents a wonderful opportunity that
it was the go to work still as
student to a site fortifications
colonial on an island near
Cartagena de Indias in Colombia
There I knew it was the work
interdisciplinary real work
interdisciplinary with history with
archeology with anthropology I met
also what it was to get away from that area
of comfort from which I moved day to
day the house work the university and
when moving away I acquire a new
perspective of what I wanted to be from
my future is not the future that I have
taught but the future that I wanted
that I wanted to do to my life and I
I realized that I had not solved that
I did not know what I did know what I did not
I wanted because many species is very
important to know that you do not want to
then know that if you want and what
I did not want to continue in this
chain of program that was already
that string of successes that have sold me
and that I was living in a life
corporate that I’m not interested anymore
so I decided to make changes in my
life although I finished architecture
I started studying new things like
anthropology and history and in that
moment they began to open a
amount of window is that I do not
I knew
I also met people and places that did not
it would have been possible to know if I did not
would have moved away from that comfort zone
in which I was living until that
so
fortunately, that spirit of
do things my way not to the
way of others was implanted in
me and it already came as part of the
his left personality is my husband
for 20 years
a Belgian who from a very young age knew that his
future life was not going to be in belgium
but somewhere in the Caribbean
it’s more since he was 15 years old he
I had and for those who are of the years
70 and 80
I do not know if you remember that he was very
fashion those
photo giant murals with a landscape
good the one of the one who stuck in his
the room was that of a white beach
a turquoise sea and a palm tree and
I tell you that this is a sign that
dreams come true because from
13 years ago we live in the Caribbean
Mexican
Well now we two together each
so different by origins formations
likes interests we have something in common
that was the desire to live in an area of
learning and this certainly was
projected in our life projects
in common
when we think are our futures
children we also knew we wanted
that they had a type of education
different so when our
first daughter 16 years ago we said good
we are full of expectations with a lot
desire to make art and part of their
education
but how are we going to make the wish
I was but we do not know how this is
concretized in a trip that we made for
road throughout Central America
in that moment already with our little
that starting from costa rica that the
place where we lived in that
then to the north
We were always free because of
that of qüetta and that allowed us
know without number of towns of
cities all the archaeological sites
that we could meet people landscapes all
kind of anecdotes we live good and not
so good but they know that what more
we liked what we liked the most
see how our little daughter learned and
interested in such a real way and so
natural for everything that was happening
then we understood that the path of his
education and going out there
we understood that we as parents
We could take care of your
education to go creating learning
significant in each place that
we were seeing visiting from such
way that when we get installed in
mexico that was the place we chose
to finally establish we decided
organize our life in a way that
it was possible to continue this style of
the education that became a
lifestyle and discount
We have been since we started with our
daughter of 16 years we have not for a single
day nor with our son who today has
eight years
We understood that we wanted to be dads
as protagonists of education
our children not mere spectators
tell us your son did this
is learning this not us
we wanted to be present active peace
when my daughter learned to read by
the first time I had her here with me
same with my son
nobody told me I lived it this
lifestyle away from the area
comfort provided by schools is what
which is known as home schooling or
family education this the musculin
it is an educational phenomenon in which the
entire family decides to go to school and
be herself who does not
only to education but also to
training and instruction
academic of their children
although the Pope the role of dads and
moms in the formation of their children
has existed since the beginning of the
humanity is very important to know that in
the 18th century in what is now Germany and
at that time it was the Prussian empire
the kaiser the emperor since then
he decided he needed to create a model
to be able with this model to educate and
have the most obedient army
disciplined efficient the world from
then and he succeeded and it seemed to him that
he was so successful that he decided to adapt it
to make an education model of
rest of the population
I tell you that this model of origin
military became the model of the
most of the schools that exist today
in day that model that displaced the
role of fathers and mothers as trainers
and he delegated it to teachers and
tutors
however and thanks to the revolutions
cultural events of the 60s and 70s
homeschooling acquired a
new prominence and also renewed the
role of dads and moms that like
we wanted to take care of the
education of our children
this generated that it was converted into a
viable alternative in many countries of the
world included here in mexico
we think that we have to leave
back the school model of 300 ago
years in which I segregated children in
school groups segregated by
ages by social conditions
cultural conditions or conditions
economic and
delimit put spaces and times
very delimited to play for
socialize to learn to rest
we think we have to go more
beyond school if the school is a
possibility but it is not the only one for
learn a school where there is a
teacher in a classroom with 30 children who
Sometimes the only thing that has resembled the
they give 30 children who have stories
interests ways of learning fears
different stories
we must begin to leave behind the taboo
that if the school there is no education or
that the only way that there
learning in school spaces
we live daily and we see it with
our children like them live with
children and young people regardless of their
import to Moscow link or not and that
also with adults other than
we obviously are
sharing people with people daily
regardless of age
people regardless of the condition but
with which they share an interest
taste and a passion because this is very
important
Children have passions share
these things in common and is giving us
to us the certainty that our
children are learning by taste and not
by obligation
this coupled with the fact that we as
parents let’s cooler in some way
We have a certain autonomy in managing
contents although we take care of the
curricular contents of the program
the sep and many other things of this type
we also have the possibility of
look at our interests and try
to transmit those passions
I’m going to talk about a good example
first I want to ask you a question
remember you at this time
someone a teacher a teacher a friend
someone who by teaching them to talk to them
of a subject a matter something they got the
fiber changed their lives
you acquired a total interest
for that subject that suddenly became
in criteria to choose a career
take a trip a study
yes, I tell you that the dads
and moms are homes coolers or not
the truth we have that possibility of
transmit the passions to our children
if we teach them with equal passion and
with the same delivery I will tell you what
what happened a little while ago with my
teeny eight years we were
entering one of the museums
wonderful we have known and the
time to step on the stairs
electric that allowed us to enter
he backed out and me and what do you
What happens is that I feel I’m going to
faint and I said because what do you
happens says because you feel that you’re
in the midst of emotion was emotion
I felt when entering a museum to this
the museum from which he came out had spoken to them
me of history since he was born
I felt my role was full of
I felt a happiness that
you do not imagine because I realized
that the passions can be transmitted
that sensitivity of children is
incredible are absorbing emotions
another role of us parents is the
to be facilitators facilitators of
tools and ideas to help
that our children can
continue with your motivations
for example at this moment the house the
living room of our living room of our house
It is a complete chaos as they would say
here in Mexico is full of boxes
cartons flat scissors made by a
inventor inventor has eight years
we are not creating it so that some
day be an inventor today is a
inventor he wants to be an inventor
today then we have focused all the
subjects of their studies curriculum
around this subject history of the
inventors how machines work
a little physics for the city because
as I said earlier how difficult and
we teach it easy to stick or good the
case is that we think that
our new child
we do not know if one day he will be an inventor
actually in the future but in
this moment is because the children
they live a present and it is real
sometimes
we have to change the chip of us
and think that the standards of
happiness and satisfaction of success not
necessarily are the rest of the
society
we can create our own that’s why
I think that for the education level
family no matter if they are parents
homeschoolers or we should not try to see
that homeschooling while it’s not a
lifestyle that adapts to all
families because although it was adapted to the
ours and that of many other families
in Mexico and other countries in the world
we know that suddenly the alternative
viable or the easiest or cream lamas
country for for other families
What we can see is that the
homeschooling can contribute with
tools and with ideas to others
families or not and is the school
try to give the parents or a
co-starring again in which the
dads may have the option to say
if you decide to delegate partially or totally
the education of their children in others
participate in their education of
active way like for example knowing
how are they learning that they
interesting what problems they have for this
I to parents or future parents
I dare to ask them and think what and
how would you want your children
learn where also about and
especially what and how they want their
children to learn how they are facilitated
learn how we want them to
remember childhood and adolescence
those times so important is that as
all of us here know that
they fly by
I also want to ask you what kind
of relationship want to have you with
your family with your children
good a way to solve these
questions in our family was the
to choose a type of education
Alternatively leaving homeschooling
side skipping that comfort zone
leaving fears behind
uncertainties the criticisms that were
many
the social prejudices that also
they were quite and moving us to a
learning area
in this regard and he assured them that
doing things differently to
our way is that we have found
the best things in life
thank you very much
[Applause]
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