Archive for the 'looking out' Category
arun on Nov 21 2007 | Filed under: *favourites*, 0 to 2 year old, 2 to 4 year old, 4 to 8 year old, control & connection, empowerment & trust, mindfulness, others wisdom, parenting, unschooling
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 […]
arun on Nov 17 2007 | Filed under: death & life, links, unschooling
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 […]
arun on Nov 09 2007 | Filed under: aware, conflict & communication, control & connection, inspiration, newbies, nvc & pet, others wisdom, parenting, unconditional
These days if someone is wanting to make changes to their parenting I recommend Pam Leo’s Connection Parenting. If someone is the partner of someone who wants to make change then I would recommend Alfie Kohn’s Unconditional Parenting.
Kohn’s book presents a strong case, with well referenced research and in that sense presents a compelling […]
arun on Oct 05 2007 | Filed under: conflict & communication, looking out, parenting
“Natural Consequences” are promoted by many mainstream parenting sources. It often involves a parent or teacher not intervening in an event to allow the child to experience the consequences and learn from it. Other definitions interchange and flow it into “logical consequences” which are enforced consequences that have some logical or thematic flow from a […]
arun on Sep 18 2007 | Filed under: early teens, late teens, looking out, parenting
Thanks to Marion who emailed me a link to this interview in Psychology Today with Psychologist Robert Epstein.
According to the article teaser:
“Epstein argues in a provocative book, “The Case Against Adolescence,” that teens are far more competent than we assume, and most of their problems stem from restrictions placed on them.”
What I liked […]
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… […]
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 paste […]
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 the […]
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 […]
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 got […]
