arun on Sep 17 2011 | Filed under: homeschooling, parenting, unschooling
You may have noticed a serious lack of posts on this blog… I actually considered canning the whole thing because I’ve really been enjoying not blogging. But for now it survives, so it’s about time for an update. Since my last post we moved to Melbourne. We did this because of all cities in australia, [...]
arun on Aug 30 2010 | Filed under: conflict & communication, looking out, nvc & pet, others wisdom, parenting
Anne is leading the way out of our funk by hitting the parenting books once more. After our recent lows it feels like we are re-learning so much. Anne is also being greatly assisted by the work of Elaine Aron on The Highly Senitive series of books — Anne, M and Z all share many [...]
arun on Apr 02 2010 | Filed under: conflict & communication, dad stuff, family diary
I have sunk to new parenting lows. Since the birth of our third child I’ve truly been getting to know my “inner Homer”, and it’s not pretty! We absolutely love H (that’s our wonderful new baby, not Homer) and we feel incredibly, incredibly, incredibly blessed by his arrival… but at the same time it has [...]
arun on Oct 08 2008 | Filed under: 2 to 4 year old, control & connection, family diary, laugh
I’ve written a few posts about our attempts to “find the ‘Yes’” in situations with our children. I had a recent reminder that some of my ‘Yesses’ are still not making the grade. Z (2 years) has been waking up around 5am for the last few months which Anne & I are finding very challenging. [...]
arun on Aug 12 2008 | Filed under: control & connection, death & life, empowerment & trust, mindfulness, parenting, unschooling
I admit it. I am still a reforming parenting control freak. You wouldn’t know it to chat to me. Or by the fact I am into unschooling and trusting my children. But in all honesty it is a constant effort not to “do things for them”, or more often “to tell them or make them [...]
arun on Aug 11 2008 | Filed under: empowerment & trust, parenting, unregulating food, tv, unschooling
I really enjoyed writing a post a little while ago about “Finding the Yes”. However i feel motivated to write a little more clearly about this topic given the steady stream of mainstream (and often alternative) parenting commentators talking about how essential boundaries and “just saying ‘no’” are. From Dr Phil right through to personal [...]
arun on Jun 27 2008 | Filed under: conflict & communication, parenting, unconditional
Sibling fights… There are those who intervene at the first sign of trouble. Then those who just “let them work it out” and don’t intervene at all. My current approach is to intervene when I think I can be of some assistance by facilitatating rather than solving. It involves a clear intention if not a [...]
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 May 12 2008 | Filed under: control & connection, empowerment & trust, parenting
I know it can be hard sometimes. In fact over the years I’ve been through periods when I thought that “the Yes” have become extinct. They can be slippery buggers – sometimes so small and great at hiding. Its as though you’ve got to feel them first… believe in them… then maybe, just maybe you [...]
arun on Apr 22 2008 | Filed under: cartoons, control & connection, unregulating food, tv
This is so me sometimes click on the image below to see the full size pic in a new window… [note: you can reproduce any of these cartoons so long as you: 1) leave a comment or drop me a line to tell me where; 2) include a live link back to www.theparentingpit.com; and 3) [...]
