Archive for the 'control & connection' Category

lectures vs advice

Where as previously many of our opinions would have been interpreted as lectures, as we move towards greater unregulation we seem to have more freedom to constructively comment. Recently we had missed breakfast and went to a shop to get something. My daughter asked for a chocolate muffin. I reminded her that we had a […]

unregulating food – stage 1

As mentioned previously our biggest challenges to total unregulation and trust with our children related to food & tv. I have previously discussed our moves towards unregulating tv from having no tv to our 4yr old daughter having her own portable dvd player. She is content with the dvd option for now and generally […]

tv or not to tv

we tend to unregulate a lot of things. That is we allow our 4yr old daughter to make her own decisions, though we input into it with information and opinion, ultimately it is up to her. This tends to be consistent with our unschooling perspective.
The two areas we have had biggest blocks about have been […]

confessions of a reforming control freak

Ok I admit it. I am a control freak.
You would not know it to look at me. I seemed relaxed and at ease with my surroundings. I am very functional and everyone who knows me would describe me as happy and content. In fact I did not realise that I was a control freak […]