arun on Jan 18 2011 | Filed under: other
We have made the decision to send M to school <insert dramatic chord here>. It’s a huge change and not one we take lightly, but because I’ve been such an advocate of unschooling, its one i wanted to explain a little … Anne & I have a vision for the type of homeschooling we embarked [...]
arun on Jan 18 2011 | Filed under: other
Our thoughts are with all those whose lives and homes have been devastated in the floods. We were relatively unaffected here, while 2 hours north in brisbane and even south of us I know people have struggled with record rains and rivers breaking. Particular thoughts to Erica & Maree, the organisers of the unschooling conf, [...]
arun on Sep 30 2010 | Filed under: other
If you’ve visited the parenting pit in the last few days you would have found a warning about malicious software. Unfortunately this site was hacked! The good news is that it’s all cleaned up now and back running as normal. Actually, in the process of updating wordpress I discovered about 50 comments that had been [...]
arun on Aug 30 2010 | Filed under: other
Four years ago I told my daughter this story… “One day there was a huge volcano full of swirling lava and burning gas. A rock fall at the peak of the volcano closed its top over, trapping the lava and gas inside. From the outside it looked like a peaceful mountain, but inside it was [...]
arun on May 10 2010 | Filed under: links, looking out, other, others wisdom, unschooling
YAY to Maree & Erica, the crazy unschooling mums who have managed (in all their spare time) to initiate the first ever… AUSTRALIAN UNSCHOOLING CONFERENCE RETREAT September 3 – 7. 2010. @ The beautiful Tallebudgera Tourist Park, Gold Coast, Qld. Come together with other natural learning families for the first ever Unschooling Conference in Australia! [...]
arun on Jul 07 2009 | Filed under: other
I know it’s been a while (about 7 months) since my last post, but as Einstein said, “time is relative.” Of course he was referring to space time and how if one clock sits on a couch doing nothing but ticking and another clock travels through space on some groovy rocket ship at close to [...]
arun on Dec 07 2008 | Filed under: other
Just a quick post to say that i’m still alive & kicking. I made it back from my trip to the USA with very fond memories of meeting other unschoolers including Arp & Trish (and hearing of their impending move to Costa Rica). I especially appreciated staying with Phoenix & his family who were extremely [...]
arun on Oct 08 2008 | Filed under: other
I will be in New York in a few weeks! From October 27 to October 31. It will be the longest time I’ve spent away from my kids (8 days in total, the other few days I have a commitment for our biz). I’ve been discussing ‘how to make it work’ for M (6yrs) and [...]
arun on Jun 15 2008 | Filed under: other, parenting
before I had children I thought sleeping in was waking up after lunch… now I think its getting to 8am before I had children I wondered what stay at home parents did with all their time… now I wonder what people without children do with all of theirs before I had children friends called me [...]
arun on Apr 29 2008 | Filed under: death & life, other
I did something like this over 6 months ago but wanted to do it again because I’m really keen to find out a little bit about you! It’s simple and hopefully fun, so please do add your comment. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to simply copy and paste the list below [...]
