arun on Mar 14 2008 | Filed under: 4 to 8 year old
Some of my fondest memories of my youth was time spent with my family, our next door neighbours and a couple of my brother’s friends as we trawled through swamps, fought a huge array of monsters, raised armies, trapped dragons, fled from trolls and plundered treasure… oh… and we died on numerous occasions.
Of course we […]
arun on Mar 06 2008 | Filed under: 0 to 2 year old, aware, parenting, stages & ages
SPLAT!
It was the sound of our 21 month old son Z falling from the second step of a step ladder onto the kitchen floor.
A few years ago, if that was M, I probably would have jumped in and scooped her up like I was some pseudo action hero… checking for blood, tears or anything.
That was […]
arun on Feb 15 2008 | Filed under: 4 to 8 year old, education, homeschooling, looking out, mainstream media, unschooling
Two interesting articles doing the rounds recently caught my eye. The first was published by the BBC and asks in its headline, “Is five too soon to start school?”.
(btw – thanks to Scott Stantis for the cartoon).
The article compares England’s experience with countries such as Sweden, Denmark and Finland where school begins at seven years of […]
arun on Dec 26 2007 | Filed under: 0 to 2 year old, parenting
I dont remember much of the movie Jurassic Park, but I remember that scene. The raptors are small, meat (ie people) eating, vicious dinosaurs and they are loose in the base… i think the script went something like:
guy: (loads gun) so there are only two raptors right? The third one is contained.
woman: yes… that is… […]
arun on Dec 07 2007 | Filed under: 2 to 4 year old, 4 to 8 year old, education, homeschooling, natural learning, newbies, unschooling
That is what I yelled out to my family as we drove down a street in Launceston, Tasmania and saw the creature pictured left. It seemed like all my family, even my 19 month old son, rolled their eyes as Anne politely pointed out, “It’s a llama.”
I still argue that the car was moving fast, […]
arun on Nov 21 2007 | Filed under: *favourites*, 0 to 2 year old, 2 to 4 year old, 4 to 8 year old, control & connection, empowerment & trust, mindfulness, others wisdom, parenting, unschooling
A SPECIAL POST BECAUSE THE PARENTING PIT IS ONE YEAR OLD TODAY!!!
Ironically if I stumbled upon a site like this just three year ago, I would have ignored it at best and written an abusive email at worst. Somewhere in between that three year and one year mark, I went through a […]
arun on Nov 13 2007 | Filed under: 0 to 2 year old, family diary, laugh
Chatting with a friend over dinner when Z our 19 month old son started yelling and pointing at something under the table, obviously asking for help. I could not see what he wanted and enjoying the conversation with our friend I said to Z, “have a go… try and get it yourself.”
I went back to […]
arun on Nov 06 2007 | Filed under: 4 to 8 year old, conflict & communication, family diary, laugh
Driving along yesterday and M who is 5yrs was having a shouting match over a fairy doll with Z who is 18months. Im the sort of person who needs to concentrate when I drive. Well actually the driving bit is fine… its the driving in the right direction that seems to consume every brain cell […]
arun on Oct 10 2007 | Filed under: 2 to 4 year old, 4 to 8 year old, laugh, natural learning, unschooling
Conversations with M, our daughter sometime remind me of a river.
It flows – crashing and cascading at one moment, slowly sauntering the next. These discussions seem to meander in all sorts of directions driven by her insightful and often ecclectic waves of questions and observations.
That to me is one of the amazing things […]
arun on Sep 30 2007 | Filed under: 4 to 8 year old, control & connection, empowerment & trust, family diary, parenting, unconditional
We just returned home from 10 days staying with my mum interstate for a relation’s Indian wedding extravaganza.
Pictured is M after Mendhi night, a traditional ceremony where henna is put in intricate patterns on the hands of female participants, it lasts for about two weeks afterwards.
WHEN YOUR CHEEKS ARE NOT YOUR OWN
A big Indian get […]
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