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 explaining […]
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 and […]
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 […]
arun on Mar 20 2007 | Filed under: aware, family diary, unregulating food, tv
Today was a pretty quiet day and was interesting for its lack of dvds. Since late last year we have unregulated a portable dvd player with our 5 yr old daughter… so she can watch it when ever she wants. We have gone through patches where she has not watched any but it has been […]
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 been […]
arun on Mar 03 2007 | Filed under: family diary
Yesterday driving to brisbane and our 5 yr old daughter asked again about God. We are keen not to “push” our beliefs or lack of beliefs on her and try to reflect a range of opinions as objectively as possible.
We talked about how different people believed in different things. Anne talked about her mum […]
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