If you are brave and resourceful, you might
consider organizing your own school or other
institution.
This is what Natalie Cronin did. She started her
home daycare, Under the Tinker Tree, out of
a desire to provide her own children with an
experience more closely resembling her ideals
than would otherwise be possible. Luckily, her
vision resonated with others in her community.
“I share my home with a dozen families a day,
and we have a saying that ‘We’re all in it together.’ It was an interesting process…I was very
up-front about (all my beliefs about childrearing), and people would come, and they were
looking for people like me and I was looking for
people like them…(I’d tell them)we aren’t caring
for just the child, we’re h \