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 regimen that develops or improves a skill; training: A daily stint at the typewriter is excellent discipline for a writer.” I’m pretty transparent that […]
Raising Children and Developing Character
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 lives. That’s when it has meaning to them and they are motivated to try to figure it out. Why? Because people are unique. And […]
The Unschooling Family: Considering Everyone’s Needs
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 of as us adults handing more power over to our children. And though that image is a step closer, it still leaves […]
Unschooling and the Power Paradigm
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. Even when it isn’t mentioned explicitly, it’s there. A quick web search turns up articles such as these from popular parenting sites: “Get Your Kid to […]
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