Archive for October, 2007

Which USA City is Great to Live in?

Above are pictures of us at a lodge just north of Seattle in the USA. For regular visitors or people who know us you might realise that is a long way from home as we currently live in Byron Bay, Australia.
Our recent and relatively short trip to the USA explains why October has been a […]

No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition!

Conversations with M, our daughter sometime remind me of a river.
It flows – crashing and cascading at one moment, slowly sauntering the next. These discussions seem to meander in all sorts of directions driven by her insightful and often ecclectic waves of questions and observations.
That to me is one of the amazing things […]

What’s So Natural About Natural Consequences?

“Natural Consequences” are promoted by many mainstream parenting sources. It often involves a parent or teacher not intervening in an event to allow the child to experience the consequences and learn from it. Other definitions interchange and flow it into “logical consequences” which are enforced consequences that have some logical or thematic flow from a […]