arun on Aug 12 2008 | Filed under: control & connection, death & life, empowerment & trust, mindfulness, parenting, unschooling
I admit it. I am still a reforming parenting control freak.
You wouldn’t know it to chat to me. Or by the fact I am into unschooling and trusting my children. But in all honesty it is a constant effort not to “do things for them”, or more often “to tell them or make them do […]
arun on Aug 11 2008 | Filed under: empowerment & trust, parenting, unregulating food, tv, unschooling
I really enjoyed writing a post a little while ago about “Finding the Yes”.
However i feel motivated to write a little more clearly about this topic given the steady stream of mainstream (and often alternative) parenting commentators talking about how essential boundaries and “just saying ‘no’” are. From Dr Phil right through to personal […]
arun on Jun 01 2008 | Filed under: empowerment & trust, looking out, others wisdom, unschooling
The following quote is from one of my favourite unschool writers, Joyce Fetteroll. Along with Rue Kream’s book, Joyce’s web site has been a key resources for my own unschooling journey.
Joyce wrote this in a discussion on the Unschooling Basics egroup and Ive reproduced it here with her permission:
Teachers face this huge pile of […]
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 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 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 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 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 […]
arun on Aug 13 2007 | Filed under: 4 to 8 year old, control & connection, empowerment & trust, newbies, parenting, unregulating food, tv, unschooling
So you’re reading it anyway right?
In fact more people will probably read this post because of that title. Me writing “Do NOT read this Post” is a limit that is unexplained, artificial and/ or you have no reason for believing… why wouldn’t you at best ignore it or more likely become even more curious by […]
arun on Aug 10 2007 | Filed under: *favourites*, death & life, empowerment & trust, parenting, unschooling
Ive just written this article, its not “giant” as in big… its about Giants.
Its called Into the World of Giants and you can read it here.
It is actually based on a post I wrote a few months ago which I always intended to turn into an article but it has escaped me until now…
I […]
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