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 might […]
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) […]
arun on Apr 05 2008 | Filed under: unschooling
We are plotting & planning ways to attend the Live & Learn Unschooling Conference in the USA this September (we live in Australia).
I am very motivated to be in an environment where unschooling and the like is the norm, even if it is just for a few days… and also keen to meet many of […]
arun on Mar 27 2008 | Filed under: education, empowerment & trust, parenting, unschooling, work from home
Anne & I have recently been reading and implementing coaching techniques for our home business to great effect. We have been using a coaching approach called the GROW model popularised by John Whitmore in his book Coaching for Performance. Although I feel uncomfortable with describing parenting as coaching, I was struck by how this approach […]
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 Jan 25 2008 | Filed under: education, empowerment & trust, homeschooling, inspiration, looking out, natural learning, newbies, others wisdom, reviews & interviews, unschooling
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 […]
arun on Jan 16 2008 | Filed under: *favourites*, homeschooling, laugh, unschooling
Here at the Parenting Pit we are working on a range of products to make your homeschooling/ unschooling journey a blissful haven (you know… like the ones you read about on all those egroups!). Take a sneak peak at some of the products soon available:
THE FREAK OUT FILE
For mild to medium freak outs, gather favourite […]
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 17 2007 | Filed under: death & life, links, unschooling
Maybe it was because the kids spent 2 hours running around in circles hitting each other with balloons (best $3 we spent in ages), or because M was up until midnight the previous night when we had a friend visit and stay late… but for what ever reason they kids went to bed very early […]
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