Archive for the 'looking out' Category

Books by People who Inspire…

Ive been writing less for the Pit lately… but Ive got a good excuse. In between hanging out with my family and doing our home biz with my partner, I have started to write a book!
Don’t worry, its nothing to do with parenting… Ill leave that to people with much more of a clue than […]

June Pit Stop – Australian Unschooling Resources

Pit Stops are posts where i choose a theme and profile some sites. According to my web stats only about 30% of the people who visit the Pit are from Australia, so sorry to all you others for whom this is less interest. This month, homeschooling & unschooling online resources for Australians…
JOYOUS LEARNINGThis is currently […]

Another Brick in the Wall?

The following quote is from one of my favourite unschool writers, Joyce Fetteroll. Along with Rue Kream’s book, Joyce’s web site has been a key resources for my own unschooling journey.
Joyce wrote this in a discussion on the Unschooling Basics egroup and Ive reproduced it here with her permission:
Teachers face this huge pile of […]

Two Articles Question Mainstream Education

Two interesting articles doing the rounds recently caught my eye. The first was published by the BBC and asks in its headline, “Is five too soon to start school?”.
(btw – thanks to Scott Stantis for the cartoon).
The article compares England’s experience with countries such as Sweden, Denmark and Finland where school begins at seven years of […]

From little things…

A friend recently emailed a link to this 2 minute video to us… hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Apparently it was part of an initiative celebrating 60 years of independence in India…

Advance review of The Unschooling Unmanual

Jan Hunt director of the Natural Child Project and her unschooled son Jason are coeditors of the soon to be released The Unschooling Unmanual. This compilation of eleven essays will be available in early Feb, 2008.
I managed to get my mitts on an advance digital copy of the book and have written an indepth review […]

A Time for New Beginnings?

A new year. A period when people are generally open to reflection and new resolutions. Where there is often a break from the busyness of business and time to sit with ourselves and our life. Where there is a moment to choose priorities, direction and who we are being for the coming year.
A time […]

Elfed

Some good friends MM&W just emailed us one of the most tacky, inane, time wasting and plain old silly christmas web gimmicks that I have seen for ages…
so of course we had to have a go too… click this link to see us get elfed and then follow the options to do your own.
If you […]

Five Lessons From My Children

A SPECIAL POST BECAUSE THE PARENTING PIT IS ONE YEAR OLD TODAY!!!
Ironically if I stumbled upon a site like this just three year ago, I would have ignored it at best and written an abusive email at worst. Somewhere in between that three year and one year mark, I went through a […]

Unschooling Myself Into The Universe & Beyond…

Maybe it was because the kids spent 2 hours running around in circles hitting each other with balloons (best $3 we spent in ages), or because M was up until midnight the previous night when we had a friend visit and stay late… but for what ever reason they kids went to bed very early […]