arun on Sep 08 2007 | Filed under: conflict & communication, looking out, mindfulness, others wisdom, parenting
A brief aside – I wanted to acknowledge people so far who have responded to the last post, 8 Things About You. With the variety of answers and insights so far it has now officially become my favourite post on this site. Please add your own answers if you have not done so already… especially [...]
arun on Aug 28 2007 | Filed under: *favourites*, looking out, others wisdom
Enough about me… It’s time you shared something about you! I was trying to work out how to find out more about you and then got the idea for this after responding to Tammy’s “Who Are You” post on her excellent blog. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to simply copy and [...]
arun on Jul 27 2007 | Filed under: death & life, looking out, others wisdom
Lots of things to ponder after catching some of the Byron Bay Writers Festival today. One of the talks that I enjoyed was Robert Larkins who has exposed the death & funeral industry in his book Funeral Right. He discussed how large funeral corporations had bought out most family run and small funeral operators in [...]
arun on Jul 20 2007 | Filed under: aware, looking out, nvc & pet, others wisdom, parenting, unschooling
Life Learning Magazine’s latest edition has reprinted an article I wrote a while ago now called “Parenting is Making My Brain Hurt”, which you can read here. It was first published in Connections ezine. Re reading the article which I wrote late last year made me think about my use of NVC (non violent communication). [...]
arun on Jul 19 2007 | Filed under: others wisdom, parenting
One day the Hindu God Ganesha was arguing with his brother Kartikay about who was fastest. They decided to resolve the issue by having a race around the universe… as you do when you are a God I guess. Their parents Shiva and Parvati watched them from the starting line. The race began and Kartikay [...]
arun on Jul 07 2007 | Filed under: health & nutrition, others wisdom, wellness
I have been encouraged by the recent debate on this site to put renewed energy into food and cooking. We do this every so often but then go through a “cyclical slackness” with food where we tend to ignore the whole issue for a while. But for now Im motivated so… I wanted to ask [...]
arun on May 20 2007 | Filed under: *favourites*, newbies, others wisdom
This site has been going since November 2006 and has grown steadilly – including some very wise words from the likes of Alfie Kohn, Jan Hunt, Naomi Aldort, Paddy Wipfler, Jon Kabat-Zinn and many more. Their articles and a few of mine are summarised on our new Article Index here. Hope you enjoy them… tell [...]
arun on May 14 2007 | Filed under: aware, control & connection, looking out, others wisdom, parenting, unconditional
Thanks to homeschool mums Wendy & Marion for telling us about Patty Wilpfer’s Hand in Hand site. Click here to read her article Being “In Control”– The Possible and Impossible in Parenting, which we have just added to our site. Patty Wilpfler’s writing covers broad topics often pitched for a mainstream audience and has several [...]
arun on May 03 2007 | Filed under: 0 to 2 year old, attachment parenting, conflict & communication, looking out, others wisdom, parenting, unconditional
Just got permission from Naomi Aldort to reprint one of her articles that i really liked. Its themes are trust and meeting a child’s needs in the toddler context. I particularly liked her “declaration of complete confidence in chlidren” which appears at the end of the article. The article Surviving the Toddler Years can be [...]
arun on Apr 24 2007 | Filed under: dad stuff, education, homeschooling, looking out, others wisdom, work from home
I secretly suspect that Eleanor Sparks is infact about six people. If you have not come accross her yet – she is one of the most high profile proponents of homeschooling in Australia, she is a homeschool mum of five kids, she publishes Australia’s main homeschool magazine Education Choices and she is the key organiser [...]
