arun on Sep 02 2008 | Filed under: education, laugh, looking out
A very funny, albeit very sad article from the satirical online mag, the Onion:
6-Year-Old Stares Down Bottomless Abyss Of Formal Schooling
CARPENTERSVILLE, IL—Local first-grader Connor Bolduc, 6, experienced the first inkling of a coming lifetime of existential dread Monday upon recognizing his cruel destiny to participate in compulsory education for the better part of the next […]
arun on Aug 12 2008 | Filed under: links, looking out, others wisdom, unschooling
Why have the unschooling magazines gone?
First Live Free Learn Free went electronic and now seems to be no more. Then more recently Life Learning Magazine got absorbed into its bigger cousing Natural Parenting Magazine.
Meanwhile Connections online magazine seems to be the last one standing but is very infrequent.
So if unschooling is growing what is happening […]
arun on Jul 20 2008 | Filed under: links, looking out, reviews & interviews, wellness
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 […]
arun on Jun 27 2008 | Filed under: homeschooling, links, pit stops
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…
LIBERATED LEARNING This is […]
arun on Jun 01 2008 | Filed under: empowerment & trust, looking out, others wisdom, unschooling
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 […]
arun on Feb 15 2008 | Filed under: 4 to 8 year old, education, homeschooling, looking out, mainstream media, unschooling
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 […]
arun on Feb 13 2008 | Filed under: inspiration, looking out
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…
arun on Jan 25 2008 | Filed under: education, empowerment & trust, homeschooling, inspiration, looking out, natural learning, newbies, others wisdom, reviews & interviews, unschooling
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 […]
arun on Jan 01 2008 | Filed under: *favourites*, death & life, inspiration, looking out, mindfulness, others wisdom, parenting
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 […]
arun on Dec 12 2007 | Filed under: links, other
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 […]
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