Archive for August, 2007

Eight Things About YOU

Enough about me… It’s time you shared something about you! I was trying to work out how to find out more about you and then got the idea for this after responding to Tammy’s “Who Are You” post on her excellent blog.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to simply copy and paste […]

In That Moment

Anne has been putting me on to the likes of Eckhart Tolle & Jon Kabat-Zinn recently. They both discuss the importance of being aware of the moment as the moment is all we have.
In parenting terms, I am beginning to realise the particular importance of being aware in “that moment”. You know the moment […]

Our Mornings in the Science Lab

Anne & I have a great responsibility in the morning. We take turns in assisting a scientist with his work.
The science is quite ecclectic. One morning the focus is on chemistry and mixing a huge range of chemicals and compounds with unexpected results. Alternatively it might be on physics, especially comparitive studies on gravity, mass, […]

DO NOT READ THIS POST!

So you’re reading it anyway right?
In fact more people will probably read this post because of that title. Me writing “Do NOT read this Post” is a limit that is unexplained, artificial and/ or you have no reason for believing… why wouldn’t you at best ignore it or more likely become even more curious by […]

New Giant Article

Ive just written this article, its not “giant” as in big… its about Giants.
Its called Into the World of Giants and you can read it here.
It is actually based on a post I wrote a few months ago which I always intended to turn into an article but it has escaped me until now…
I […]

Kindred Update and Uncanny Coincidence

Got an email from the editor of Kindred Magazine who published my Unschooling Journey article in their July/ August edition.
I was both surprised and excited to hear that the Unschooling article has had more positive feedback than almost any other article in the magazine to date (apparently up there with the “vaccine cover-up” and […]

Little Man, Big Dreams…

Wanted… One Village to Help Raise our Children

“It takes a village to raise a child”
– African Saying
What constitutes a family these days? There are single parents; blended groups via splits and new partnerships; mixed genders with gay & lesbian relationships etc etc.. However in most iterations there is often a common thread – pressure put on one or at best two individuals […]