Archive for the 'empowerment & trust' Category
arun on Jun 19 2007 | Filed under: control & connection, empowerment & trust, family diary, green living, health & nutrition, links, organics, parenting, unregulating food, tv, unschooling, wellness
I was starting to think I was being paranoid about my expected response to the article I wrote for Kindred magazine. Kindred is one of my favourite parenting resources and my impression is that its readership is into natural parenting, simple living, Steiner (Waldolf) and such things.
A friend just let me know about this […]
arun on May 29 2007 | Filed under: control & connection, empowerment & trust, homeschooling, natural learning, parenting, unregulating food, tv, unschooling
The first article I wrote when I first launched this site An Unschooling Journey from Control to Connection has now been printed in Kindred magazine, although I have not seen a copy yet. I love that mag, but the readership is very Steiner/ Waldolf based and I’m not sure what the reaction will be […]
arun on Apr 12 2007 | Filed under: control & connection, education, empowerment & trust, family diary, homeschooling, natural learning, nvc & pet, parenting, steiner/ waldolf, unregulating food, tv, unschooling
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 […]
arun on Feb 17 2007 | Filed under: *favourites*, empowerment & trust, others wisdom
As a child I was taught that fashion and all it entails was “wordly” and that Barbie stuff promoted low self esteem. Baloney! What promoted low self esteem was being told my interests weren’t worthy.
– Ren Allen, unschooling mum.
It feels bizarre now. Just several months ago before we started on our radical unschooling journey […]
arun on Jan 25 2007 | Filed under: control & connection, empowerment & trust
They said it would happen on the egroups and the books. For the last two months we have not been imposing expectations on our daughter. When she asks for things we help her get them.
On occasion she would call me to her room only to ask me to pass her something a few feet away. […]
arun on Jan 21 2007 | Filed under: control & connection, education, empowerment & trust, parenting, steiner/ waldolf, unregulating food, tv, unschooling
I recently wrote an article entitled An Unschooling Journey – from Control to Connection which you can read by clicking here.
I wrote it for Kindred magazine (formerly Byron Child Magazine) who will hopefully be publishing it in their June edition.
I have been very motivated to write such an article because although anne & I feel that […]
arun on Jan 21 2007 | Filed under: empowerment & trust, unregulating food, tv, unschooling
We can see our daughter gaining balance already. We have been partly unregulating for about 2 months and totally unregulating for just over a week. She is still exploring the novelty of it but we can see the changes already.
From having no TV to her having her own portable DVD player and a relatively constant […]
arun on Jan 17 2007 | Filed under: control & connection, empowerment & trust
Recently our daughter had a melt down when a mother who we met for the first time asked her to not sit on the curb. A number of factors at play:
- she believed that the mum did not trust her (that the mum thought she would run onto the road)
- she did not know what […]
arun on Jan 17 2007 | Filed under: control & connection, empowerment & trust, unregulating food, tv
We have taken the plunge and decided to unregulate everything. After almost two months of steady movement in this direction, this decision came relatively suddenly just a week ago.
Anne and I have managed to connect with a new level of trust with our daughter. We really do believe that she is up for this and […]
arun on Jan 05 2007 | Filed under: conflict & communication, control & connection, empowerment & trust, unregulating food, tv
Where as previously many of our opinions would have been interpreted as lectures, as we move towards greater unregulation we seem to have more freedom to constructively comment. Recently we had missed breakfast and went to a shop to get something. My daughter asked for a chocolate muffin. I reminded her that we had a […]
