arun on Apr 22 2008 | Filed under: cartoons, control & connection, unregulating food, tv
This is so me sometimes
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arun on Sep 29 2007 | Filed under: 0 to 2 year old, family diary, parenting, unconditional, unregulating food, tv
Reading the elists & web sites that I do and hanging out with the families that we do, it was a reality check to hear terms such as “good, bad & naughty” thrown around so much during the last 10 days while visiting my extended family. Usually it was “Good” but of course that always […]
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 Jun 22 2007 | Filed under: empowerment & trust, organics, unregulating food, tv
It seems that the discussion with the Weston Price crew from my last post is still going…
If you missed it, in summary they feel that im a well intentioned but misguided (bordering on irresponsible) parent to be providing processed food and/ or sugar based food to my children when they request it, particularly keeping […]
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 Apr 02 2007 | Filed under: family diary, parenting, unregulating food, tv
Just got home from our last interstate trip long enough to make a mess of the house and leave again. This time visiting my family in Adelaide.
Lovely to see them. We made a conscious effort to chill out a bit this time round. Made easier because last time we came we were practicing more […]
arun on Mar 20 2007 | Filed under: aware, family diary, unregulating food, tv
Today was a pretty quiet day and was interesting for its lack of dvds. Since late last year we have unregulated a portable dvd player with our 5 yr old daughter… so she can watch it when ever she wants. We have gone through patches where she has not watched any but it has been […]
arun on Feb 15 2007 | Filed under: *favourites*, health & nutrition, others wisdom, unconditional, unregulating food, tv
Part of me does not need academic studies to support our radical unschooling path. Another part of me is glad I can find them if i need to… and its that part that is typing this post now
Firstly an old study that has been cited by Alfie Kohn… The 1994 paper entitled […]
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