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Books by People who Inspire…

Ive been writing less for the Pit lately… but Ive got a good excuse. In between hanging out with my family and doing our home biz with my partner, I have started to write a book!
Don’t worry, its nothing to do with parenting… Ill leave that to people with much more of a clue than […]

Advance review of The Unschooling Unmanual

Jan Hunt director of the Natural Child Project and her unschooled son Jason are coeditors of the soon to be released The Unschooling Unmanual. This compilation of eleven essays will be available in early Feb, 2008.
I managed to get my mitts on an advance digital copy of the book and have written an indepth review […]

Rue’s book now available in Australia

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 […]

choosing egroups…

I have found some egroups to be invaluable for advice, ideas, confidence and support. This is a quick description and my impressions of some of the unschooling and alternative parenting egroups out there…

first book review - Parenting a Free Child

Just finished the book review of Rue Kream’s Parenting a Free Child: An Unschooled Life.
It is a fantastic book which as you can see from the review I highly recommend to anyone curious about or doing radical unschooling. At times extremely challenging it will surely leave you forming strong opinions either way.
Other books I intend […]