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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one of the big shifts we made with our move towards radical unschooling is the TV question. We had no TV and since the shift after discussions with our soon to be 5 yr old daughter we bought a portable dvd player. We have been built up a modest library for her already and we […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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As mentioned previously our biggest challenges to total unregulation and trust with our children related to food & tv. I have previously discussed our moves towards unregulating tv from having no tv to our 4yr old daughter having her own portable dvd player. She is content with the dvd option for now and generally […]

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we tend to unregulate a lot of things. That is we allow our 4yr old daughter to make her own decisions, though we input into it with information and opinion, ultimately it is up to her. This tends to be consistent with our unschooling perspective.
The two areas we have had biggest blocks about have been […]

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Ok I admit it. I am a control freak.
You would not know it to look at me. I seemed relaxed and at ease with my surroundings. I am very functional and everyone who knows me would describe me as happy and content. In fact I did not realise that I was a control freak […]

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