arun on Dec 07 2007 | Filed under: 2 to 4 year old, 4 to 8 year old, education, homeschooling, natural learning, newbies, unschooling
That is what I yelled out to my family as we drove down a street in Launceston, Tasmania and saw the creature pictured left. It seemed like all my family, even my 19 month old son, rolled their eyes as Anne politely pointed out, “It’s a llama.” I still argue that the car was moving [...]
arun on Jun 06 2007 | Filed under: *favourites*, dad stuff, education, homeschooling, newbies, parenting, unschooling
I keep meeting and hearing of Mums who want to unschool & practice non coercive parenting but are having problems bringing their hubbys along for the ride. Originally I had planned to write a series of “letter to Dads”, in trying to communicate the great potential and benefits of these approaches. I was half way [...]
arun on May 29 2007 | Filed under: control & connection, empowerment & trust, homeschooling, natural learning, parenting, unregulating food, tv, unschooling
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 to [...]
arun on Apr 24 2007 | Filed under: dad stuff, education, homeschooling, looking out, others wisdom, work from home
I secretly suspect that Eleanor Sparks is infact about six people. If you have not come accross her yet – she is one of the most high profile proponents of homeschooling in Australia, she is a homeschool mum of five kids, she publishes Australia’s main homeschool magazine Education Choices and she is the key organiser [...]
arun on Apr 18 2007 | Filed under: *favourites*, education, family diary, homeschooling, natural learning, newbies, unschooling
M & I recently made a 2 hour drive both ways to & from Brisbane to see “the Fairies” live. M got dressed as a fairy especially. Had a fantastic chat on the way back to Byron Bay. Started with M (who is 5yrs) asking why we could drive past the other cars and me [...]
arun on Apr 12 2007 | Filed under: control & connection, education, empowerment & trust, family diary, homeschooling, natural learning, nvc & pet, parenting, steiner/ waldolf, unregulating food, tv, unschooling
When we first started this site one of the first articles i posted was “An Unschooling Journey – from Control to Connection”, which described our own journey into unschooling. It was written for an excellent magazine based in Australia called Kindred Magazine (formerly Byrons Child). They have indicated that they might use it for the June [...]
arun on Apr 06 2007 | Filed under: education, homeschooling, natural learning, others wisdom, unschooling
Thanks to Alan Thomson for allowing permission to reprint his article “What Home Educators can teach the world about Natural Learning” which you can read here… Alan is an academic and his article describes an interesting journey into unfamiliar realms of education and “learning” over “teaching” for any academic to come to terms with…
arun on Apr 02 2007 | Filed under: education, family diary, homeschooling, natural learning, unschooling
While holidaying with my family we have been getting a lot of concerned questions about our homeschooling choices. Some of the most interesting questions coming from our daughters’ cousins who are 11 & 14 yrs respectively but others too. Too summarise the arguments/ concerns: – can she still get into uni (particularly things like medicine [...]
arun on Mar 15 2007 | Filed under: family diary, homeschooling, parenting
Attending a friends wedding and taking the opportunity to catch up with friends & family in Melbourne. Has been both fantastic fun and really difficult at times. Mental note to self – non coercive parenting is very challenging when in five different houses in seven days. Of course we created the situation but it has [...]
arun on Mar 06 2007 | Filed under: education, homeschooling, looking out, mainstream media
Homeschoolers make up over 1.1 million people in the USA. Obviously this is a very mixed bag, I remember reading one estimate of unschoolers within that being between 20 to 40% but for the life of me I cannot remember where I read that and how they came to that figure! What ever the case [...]
