Today our daughter caught her first wave
It was on a body board at Brunswick Head beach. Just a few months ago she was scared of water. A few weeks ago she would not go to any water with waves. Yet today we could not get her out.
At the same time Anne pointed […]

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Just finished the book review of Rue Kream’s Parenting a Free Child: An Unschooled Life.
It is a fantastic book which as you can see from the review I highly recommend to anyone curious about or doing radical unschooling. At times extremely challenging it will surely leave you forming strong opinions either way.
Other books I intend […]

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They said it would happen on the egroups and the books. For the last two months we have not been imposing expectations on our daughter. When she asks for things we help her get them.
On occasion she would call me to her room only to ask me to pass her something a few feet away. […]

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I recently wrote an article entitled An Unschooling Journey – from Control to Connection which you can read by clicking here.
I wrote it for Kindred magazine (formerly Byron Child Magazine) who will hopefully be publishing it in their June edition.
I have been very motivated to write such an article because although anne & I feel that […]

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We can see our daughter gaining balance already. We have been partly unregulating for about 2 months and totally unregulating for just over a week. She is still exploring the novelty of it but we can see the changes already.
From having no TV to her having her own portable DVD player and a relatively constant […]

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It is a common question: “so you homeschool…aren’t you worried about socialisation?”
I like unschooling Mum Rue Kream’s response, “Yes, but not for my own children.”
This reversal is also creatively captured in the excellent article Conversations From the Future, which is definitely worth a read if you have not seen it already.
Today we were at […]

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Recently our daughter had a melt down when a mother who we met for the first time asked her to not sit on the curb. A number of factors at play:
- she believed that the mum did not trust her (that the mum thought she would run onto the road)
- she did not know what […]

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We have taken the plunge and decided to unregulate everything. After almost two months of steady movement in this direction, this decision came relatively suddenly just a week ago.
Anne and I have managed to connect with a new level of trust with our daughter. We really do believe that she is up for this and […]

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Where as previously many of our opinions would have been interpreted as lectures, as we move towards greater unregulation we seem to have more freedom to constructively comment. Recently we had missed breakfast and went to a shop to get something. My daughter asked for a chocolate muffin. I reminded her that we had a […]

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