Five years in and Im starting to get this parenting thing enough to move categories. I have now graduated from “well intentioned but misguided and clueless” to the “has a vague clue if not always able to live up to it” stage. I reckon by the time Im a grandparent (if it happens) I’ll be […]

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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 […]

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way too much to say about my lover, friend, partner… anne. Mumma to our two children. An amazing woman, an inspiration. And as our daughter reminds me… “that’s one crazy mumma!”

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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 […]

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My mum always says, “children are like the paparazzi… you can do no wrong for 99% of the time but if you make a mistake just 1% they will snap you with their photographic memory!”
Over the last 8 months or so i have consciously been applying many new parenting approaches marked by […]

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I have previously reviewed Rue Kream’s excellent book “Parenting A Free Child: An Unschooled Life” here. I wont go on about how good the book is again… read the review if you are curious.
It is available internationally direct from the States at www.freechild.info. The good news is that it is now also available in Australia […]

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When we first started this site one of the first articles i posted was “An Unschooling Journey – from Control to Connection”, which described our own journey into unschooling. It was written for an excellent magazine based in Australia called Kindred Magazine (formerly Byrons Child).
They have indicated that they might use it for the June […]

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Our daughter getting her head around the work of Aletha Solther…

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Just got home from our last interstate trip long enough to make a mess of the house and leave again. This time visiting my family in Adelaide.
Lovely to see them. We made a conscious effort to chill out a bit this time round. Made easier because last time we came we were practicing more […]

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Was it just me… or when you were a child did you plan out three wishes just in case you happened upon a genie in the lamp? Ok it was just me… but who’ll be laughing when a genie appears in front of you and all you can think of to ask for is an […]

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