Its difficult for me not to regret how I used to respond to my daughters moments of anger when she was three. I was still in my “rules and boundaries” world view (it was before I started listening and learning from my daughter). So when M, my daughter was angry and yelling, the first thing […]

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The first article I wrote when I first launched this site An Unschooling Journey from Control to Connection has now been printed in Kindred magazine, although I have not seen a copy yet. I love that mag, but the readership is very Steiner/ Waldolf based and I’m not sure what the reaction will be […]

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Minnesota Public Radio did an interesting story on unschooling here. Here’s a quote from it:

For Roya Sooroshian, getting into college wasn’t a problem. She’s been unschooled since the fourth grade. She passed the high school equivalency exam at 15. Now, at 22, she just graduated from California State University at Long Beach.
Sooroshian says when she […]

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On my to do list for the next three weeks is to transfer my growing bookmarks to my until now much ignored links page… So if you have an unschooling or alternative parenting blog of your own, or wish to recommend one please add it to the comments of this post to help me along.
And […]

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This site has been going since November 2006 and has grown steadilly – including some very wise words from the likes of Alfie Kohn, Jan Hunt, Naomi Aldort, Paddy Wipfler, Jon Kabat-Zinn and many more. Their articles and a few of mine are summarised on our new Article Index here.
Hope you enjoy them… tell […]

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So is your inner voice shooting off at the mouth again too? You know the voice Im talking about right? Its the one in your head right now saying “what inner voice… I dont have an ‘inner voice’… he’s crazy!”.
I wish I was back in the ‘inner voice’ sales room… in hindsight I would have […]

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Five years in and Im starting to get this parenting thing enough to move categories. I have now graduated from “well intentioned but misguided and clueless” to the “has a vague clue if not always able to live up to it” stage. I reckon by the time Im a grandparent (if it happens) I’ll be […]

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Thanks to homeschool mums Wendy & Marion for telling us about Patty Wilpfer’s Hand in Hand site. Click here to read her article Being “In Control”– The Possible and Impossible in Parenting, which we have just added to our site.
Patty Wilpfler’s writing covers broad topics often pitched for a mainstream audience and has […]

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way too much to say about my lover, friend, partner… anne. Mumma to our two children. An amazing woman, an inspiration. And as our daughter reminds me… “that’s one crazy mumma!”

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Like many Australian homeschoolers we are excited at the first Homeschool Conferences here. We are attending the Brisbane one and cant wait to see John Taylor Gatto et al.
The conferences are very broad reflecting all sorts and styles. However we were disappointed to see no workshop reflection of natural learning let alone broader unschooling.
So […]

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