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		<title>To School or Not to School?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed a serious lack of posts on this blog&#8230; I actually considered canning the whole thing because I&#8217;ve really been enjoying not blogging. But for now it survives, so it&#8217;s about time for an update. Since my last post we moved to Melbourne. We did this because of all cities in australia, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theparentingpit.com/2011/09/17/to-school-or-not-to-school/</link>
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		<title>Why We Are Going to Try School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have made the decision to send M to school &#60;insert dramatic chord here&#62;. It&#8217;s a huge change and not one we take lightly, but because I&#8217;ve been such an advocate of unschooling, its one i wanted to explain a little &#8230; Anne &#38; I have a vision for the type of homeschooling we embarked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theparentingpit.com/2011/01/18/why-we-are-going-to-try-school/</link>
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		<title>Going Under</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our thoughts are with all those whose lives and homes have been devastated in the floods. We were relatively unaffected here, while 2 hours north in brisbane and even south of us I know people have struggled with record rains and rivers breaking. Particular thoughts to Erica &#38; Maree, the organisers of the unschooling conf, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theparentingpit.com/2011/01/18/going-under/</link>
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		<title>Labels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Kaya who forwarded this link to me of a thought provoking &#38; inspiring video about psychiatric labels and kids&#8230; This video particularly takes aim at &#8216;psychiatric conditions&#8217; but i feel similar criticism could be made of all sorts of labels, even self imposed ones. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m not an absolute label [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theparentingpit.com/2011/01/18/labels/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Back :)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve visited the parenting pit in the last few days you would have found a warning about malicious software. Unfortunately this site was hacked! The good news is that it&#8217;s all cleaned up now and back running as normal. Actually, in the process of updating wordpress I discovered about 50 comments that had been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theparentingpit.com/2010/09/30/im-back/</link>
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		<title>Australian Unschooling goes to the Next Level</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first ever Australian Unschooling Retreat/ Conference wound up a couple of weeks ago and it was a huge success! With over 100 families attending it far exceeded expectations (i admit it&#8230; especially mine!) and involved 4 days of discussion, swimming, clay play, inspiration and more. Our family enjoyed making new friends, connecting with old [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theparentingpit.com/2010/09/17/australian-unschooling-goes-to-the-next-level/</link>
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		<title>The Prick on The Volcano</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four years ago I told my daughter this story&#8230; &#8220;One day there was a huge volcano full of swirling lava and burning gas. A rock fall at the peak of the volcano closed its top over, trapping the lava and gas inside. From the outside it looked like a peaceful mountain, but inside it was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theparentingpit.com/2010/08/30/the-prick-on-the-volcano/</link>
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		<title>Back to the Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anne is leading the way out of our funk by hitting the parenting books once more. After our recent lows it feels like we are re-learning so much. Anne is also being greatly assisted by the work of Elaine Aron on The Highly Senitive series of books — Anne, M and Z all share many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theparentingpit.com/2010/08/30/back-to-the-books/</link>
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		<title>Australia&#8217;s First Unschooling Conference Retreat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[YAY to Maree &#038; Erica, the crazy unschooling mums who have managed (in all their spare time) to initiate the first ever&#8230; AUSTRALIAN UNSCHOOLING CONFERENCE RETREAT September 3 &#8211; 7. 2010. @ The beautiful Tallebudgera Tourist Park, Gold Coast, Qld. Come together with other natural learning families for the first ever Unschooling Conference in Australia! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theparentingpit.com/2010/05/10/australias-first-unschooling-conference-retreat/</link>
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		<title>Adventures in Crappy Parenting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have sunk to new parenting lows. Since the birth of our third child I&#8217;ve truly been getting to know my &#8220;inner Homer&#8221;, and it&#8217;s not pretty! We absolutely love H (that&#8217;s our wonderful new baby, not Homer) and we feel incredibly, incredibly, incredibly blessed by his arrival&#8230; but at the same time it has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theparentingpit.com/2010/04/02/adventures-in-crappy-parenting/</link>
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