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Recently I talked about how you might choose to answer questions about unschooling from relatives during family visits. I thought it might be helpful to dig a bit more into ways you can deal with …
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With unschooling we talk quite a bit about not having expectations of our children because that adds a filter to the relationship that gets in the way of both learning and living. It's much more …
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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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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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