Archive for the 'health & nutrition' Category

Quick, Healthy & Yummy Kids Recipe Suggestions

I have been encouraged by the recent debate on this site to put renewed energy into food and cooking. We do this every so often but then go through a “cyclical slackness” with food where we tend to ignore the whole issue for a while. But for now Im motivated so…
I wanted to ask you […]

The Backlash Begins…

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 […]

Is Controlling Food in Children Healthy? Studies say No…

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 […]