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 have […]
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 11 2007 | Filed under: *favourites*, aware, family diary, laugh
Our daughter getting her head around the work of Aletha Solther…
arun on Feb 26 2007 | Filed under: *favourites*, aware, laugh, mindfulness, nvc & pet, others wisdom, parenting, relationships, unconditional
I have added a new article entitled “Parenting is Making My Brain Hurt”. This is a rewrite of an older entry which reflected my shift from providing answers and “covering up” problems towards other parenting approaches.
The article covers some major influences in this shift from Thomas Gorden (PET), Solter (Aware Parenting), Naomi Aldolt and […]
arun on Feb 17 2007 | Filed under: *favourites*, empowerment & trust, others wisdom
As a child I was taught that fashion and all it entails was “wordly” and that Barbie stuff promoted low self esteem. Baloney! What promoted low self esteem was being told my interests weren’t worthy.
– Ren Allen, unschooling mum.
It feels bizarre now. Just several months ago before we started on our radical unschooling journey […]
arun on Feb 15 2007 | Filed under: *favourites*, health & nutrition, others wisdom, unconditional, unregulating food, tv
Part of me does not need academic studies to support our radical unschooling path. Another part of me is glad I can find them if i need to… and its that part that is typing this post now
Firstly an old study that has been cited by Alfie Kohn… The 1994 paper entitled […]
arun on Nov 28 2006 | Filed under: *favourites*, others wisdom, unschooling
A very creative script written by an anonomous source… this dialogue between two mums reverses the usual dynamic and asks “so why do you send your children to school?”
Please read “Conversations from the Future” by clicking here.
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