Archive for the 'family diary' Category
arun on Sep 17 2010 | Filed under: family diary, homeschooling, inspiration, others wisdom, unschooling
The first ever Australian Unschooling Retreat/ Conference wound up a couple of weeks ago and it was a huge success! With over 100 families attending it far exceeded expectations (i admit it… especially mine!) and involved 4 days of discussion, swimming, clay play, inspiration and more. Our family enjoyed making new friends, connecting with old [...]
arun on Apr 02 2010 | Filed under: conflict & communication, dad stuff, family diary
I have sunk to new parenting lows. Since the birth of our third child I’ve truly been getting to know my “inner Homer”, and it’s not pretty! We absolutely love H (that’s our wonderful new baby, not Homer) and we feel incredibly, incredibly, incredibly blessed by his arrival… but at the same time it has [...]
arun on Jul 11 2009 | Filed under: birth, dad stuff, family diary, pregnancy & birth
About 12 hours after my last post, we were joined by H. Anne was absolutely amazing yet again. The determination and raw, unbridled power she displays during birth are breath taking. H was birthed in the water tub which was fortunately full and heated. He was a big bub — 10.2 pounds. His birth was [...]
arun on Oct 08 2008 | Filed under: 2 to 4 year old, control & connection, family diary, laugh
I’ve written a few posts about our attempts to “find the ‘Yes’” in situations with our children. I had a recent reminder that some of my ‘Yesses’ are still not making the grade. Z (2 years) has been waking up around 5am for the last few months which Anne & I are finding very challenging. [...]
arun on Jul 25 2008 | Filed under: death & life, family diary, mindfulness
Its been a year and a few days since I wrote a post called “Snapshots” which you can read here. A year later, M is 6yrs and Z is 2yrs. So here goes another snapshotWhat they are saying: M: “Daaaadddy… can you come here?” calling from the bunk bed that Anne got her, to ask [...]
arun on Jun 30 2008 | Filed under: family diary, laugh
A conversation today between me and Z. Lulu is our dog, Z and her were jumping on each other for much of this chat. At 2 years old Z is using two or three word sentences which we are generally skilled at understanding, so for example “Me milk Daddy” means “please get me my milk [...]
arun on May 25 2008 | Filed under: family diary
Ive noticed that most visitors to this site are from outside Australia, so I thought id include some pics of some australian animals from our recent trip to Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary. We got to hang out and even feed kangaroos, koalas, possums and rainbow lorikeets. Snakes and lizards too but i ran out of room…
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 Feb 28 2008 | Filed under: family diary
It was a three pronged coordinated attack. Despite me thinking that a dog would be too much, I faced M talking about how much she would love one; Z dropping everything and yelling in excitement whenever a dog went past; and Anne finding the “perfect” dog in the paper… So I caved and we have [...]
arun on Dec 07 2007 | Filed under: contribution & activism, family diary
A while back Anne popped into an Australian Geographic shop while waiting for a movie (about the only one she saw the whole year). She did not buy anything but filled out a competition slip… and she won a weeks holiday to Tasmania!!! So a huge thanks to Australian Geographic and Tourism Tasmania (and of [...]
