arun on Mar 31 2008 | Filed under: family diary
What did you do for Earth Hour? We spent ours sitting in a nearby cow paddock looking at the stars. It was a high tech trip into nature because I took my laptop with a copy of Stellarium on it. Stellarium is an open source application which I downloaded after an unschooling mum listed it [...]
arun on Mar 27 2008 | Filed under: education, empowerment & trust, parenting, unschooling, work from home
Anne & I have recently been reading and implementing coaching techniques for our home business to great effect. We have been using a coaching approach called the GROW model popularised by John Whitmore in his book Coaching for Performance. Although I feel uncomfortable with describing parenting as coaching, I was struck by how this approach [...]
arun on Mar 14 2008 | Filed under: 4 to 8 year old
Some of my fondest memories of my youth was time spent with my family, our next door neighbours and a couple of my brother’s friends as we trawled through swamps, fought a huge array of monsters, raised armies, trapped dragons, fled from trolls and plundered treasure… oh… and we died on numerous occasions. Of course [...]
arun on Mar 06 2008 | Filed under: 0 to 2 year old, aware, parenting, stages & ages
SPLAT! It was the sound of our 21 month old son Z falling from the second step of a step ladder onto the kitchen floor. A few years ago, if that was M, I probably would have jumped in and scooped her up like I was some pseudo action hero… checking for blood, tears or [...]
arun on Mar 06 2008 | Filed under: dad stuff, pit stops
Welcome to a new monthly feature for the Parenting Pit… The Pit Stop, which will highlight wonderful parenting sites & resources around particular themes each month. I wanted to kick off the first Pit Stop with two sites from other Dads, although the content is relevant to all parents: SCOTT NOELLE’S ENJOY PARENTING If you [...]
