Archive for the 'family diary' Category
arun on Jun 19 2007 | Filed under: control & connection, empowerment & trust, family diary, green living, health & nutrition, links, organics, parenting, unregulating food, tv, unschooling, wellness
I was starting to think I was being paranoid about my expected response to the article I wrote for Kindred magazine. Kindred is one of my favourite parenting resources and my impression is that its readership is into natural parenting, simple living, Steiner (Waldolf) and such things. A friend just let me know about this [...]
arun on Jun 14 2007 | Filed under: 0 to 2 year old, 4 to 8 year old, death & life, family diary, mindfulness, relationships, work from home
Years ago when i had a day job and only one child, I used to catch a melbourne tram up lygon street to work. The sardine feel was horrible, as was saying good bye to my lover and our new baby for the best part of the day. The tram would trundle past a huge [...]
arun on May 18 2007 | Filed under: *favourites*, family diary, mindfulness, parenting
So is your inner voice shooting off at the mouth again too? You know the voice Im talking about right? Its the one in your head right now saying “what inner voice… I dont have an ‘inner voice’… he’s crazy!”. I wish I was back in the ‘inner voice’ sales room… in hindsight I would [...]
arun on May 14 2007 | Filed under: family diary, parenting
way too much to say about my lover, friend, partner… anne. Mumma to our two children. An amazing woman, an inspiration. And as our daughter reminds me… “that’s one crazy mumma!”
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: *favourites*, family diary
Photo by our 5 year old daughter of our 1 year old son… i think they were going for that “mysterious toddler” look.
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 11 2007 | Filed under: *favourites*, aware, family diary, laugh
Our daughter getting her head around the work of Aletha Solther…
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 Apr 02 2007 | Filed under: family diary, parenting, unregulating food, tv
Just got home from our last interstate trip long enough to make a mess of the house and leave again. This time visiting my family in Adelaide. Lovely to see them. We made a conscious effort to chill out a bit this time round. Made easier because last time we came we were practicing more [...]
