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 […]

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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 […]

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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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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 […]

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Finally added some of my huge list of bookmarks to the links page of this site. Some wise/ funny/ interesting people out there… check them out.
Also please add a comment here if i missed your site or ones that you think would be of interest.

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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 […]

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I got “tagged” by both Danielle and Schuyler. Am new to these wild and zany blog games… and in case you are too the deal is Im meant to post “8 things about me” then “tag” 8 other blog bods.
Self indulgent it may be… but here goes
// Each player lists 8 facts/habits about […]

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On my to do list for the next three weeks is to transfer my growing bookmarks to my until now much ignored links page… So if you have an unschooling or alternative parenting blog of your own, or wish to recommend one please add it to the comments of this post to help me along.
And […]

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Just added the unschooling blog button to the bottom right of this site. It links to over 100 unschooling blogs… you are not alone. I particularly love scanning some of these blogs to get a sense of the diversity of approaches and styles under the broad banner of “unschooling”.

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I have found some egroups to be invaluable for advice, ideas, confidence and support. This is a quick description and my impressions of some of the unschooling and alternative parenting egroups out there…

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