Living Joyfully
Let's talk about relationships - how to improve them, how to enjoy them, and how to truly connect with the people in our lives.
Many of us are the lone unschooling family when our families of origin gather for holiday celebrations, birthdays, reunions etc. That is certainly our case, both for visiting my own family and my …
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Discipline. It's a word with multiple meanings and its interpretation often depends on your personal experiences and world view. I like to think of discipline as an “activity, exercise, or a …
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As unschooling parents, our intuition at first and our experience soon after, shows us that our children's best learning happens when it's part and parcel of pursuing interesting things in their …
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I'd like to dig more deeply into something I mentioned last week when I talked about dropping the prevalent “adults versus children” attitude and the power struggles that ensue: This can be thought …
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Most information I've come across about parenting, whether in conversations, online, in books and magazines, or through TV and movies, promotes an “us versus them” attitude: adults versus children. …
Are you feeling disconnected from one or more of your children? Or are you a working parent wanting to build a deeper relationship with your kids? Or a step-parent wanting to create solid …
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