Rickshaw Unschooling

It is Markus' tradition to make gingerbread houses. We didn't quite have time for houses, this year, but he and the kids make plenty...

Auntie Bree invited us to the house she was house-sitting and hang out for the day. It was so lovely to just relax, shed all the responsibil...

So often people seem to come here looking for unschooling schedules. So I thought I'd just post up my thoughts about it. As annoying as ...

 Auntie Mischa invited us all out to join them on the Stanley Park Christmas train, which we did quite happily! Then we went for dinner at ...

This year Nana put a few things in the stockings, as well as Santa Claus. One was this charming mole puppet who plays violin. He's bee...

We received little colour-in cards in the mail this year, with 3 crayons and pre-stamped, addressed envelopes to get them back to the childr...

Some people call our beautiful wild Christmas trees 'Charlie Brown Trees". We think they're the opposite: totally beautiful, na...

We're head-first-ploughing through the busiest month of the year, trying to find moments to consider the year(s) past and where we are, ...

Environmental School Project: Place-Based Imaginative and Ecological Education in Maple Ridge, BC This is so close to us I can almost tast...

Our learning community (the primary years) went on a field trip up Grouse Mountain. Markus lamented the fact that in all the years he's ...

Sinterklaas came to see us this year! He first went up to Opa and Nana's house to retrieve his staf, (and mentioned to us that he plans ...

Once a month our community has a Kitchen Junket, which basically is a gathering of musicians, poets, writers, and performers/revelers of eve...

I am certainly not unbiased. This is about my mother, and I think my mother is just excellent. She has devoted her life to children's de...

Every month during the school year, the Bowen Children's Centre puts out a newsletter, into which my mother, Lyn, pours her time, and co...

Our friends Genevieve and Lorne supplement their regular careers as massage therapist and singer/songwriter by working at Richmond Country...