Rickshaw Unschooling

As it happens, just shortly after I posted that post about fear, a friend brought this beautiful Alan Watts video to my attention. Exactly w...

I cannot count the number of times people have expressed their fears to me about why they'd love to unschool their kids but can't, o...

What are you going to be when you grow up? What are you going to do when you grow up? What are you going to do right now? Because yo...

Local homelearners from toddlers to teens (and parents too!) on a farm tour. Bullying is coming up a lot on our island, recently. Well i...

Great film to watch with kids. Mine loved it! And this one is not so amazing, but interesting, anyway. I'm so glad my kids are not D...

... and why teenagers are great for our evolution. David Suzuki has done it again! Although this fabulous episode of the Nature of Things ...

Documentary Recommendation: Hyper Parents and Coddled Kids (Link at the end of this post.) Markus and I watched this documentary this eve...

Disclaimer: I am completely qualified to write about this in the same way that everybody is entitled to an opinion. I'm not claiming any...

Throughout my childhood, I assumed this was a true story. It's not. But it's so epic; so important; so fundamentally right , that ma...

I currently host a weekly teen drawing group at my studio, which of course includes Tal, since drawing is one of his passions, and he's ...

I bought helium balloons for Rhiannon's birthday, at $2+/ea, knowing full well that it wasn't a green option for a planet that is f...

We pulled it off. It was so epic it was almost unbelievable. Here's what we did: Firstly, some time ago Rhiannon confided in me that s...

As it happened, Opa showed up late one evening with a Steller's Jay that he had found caught in the rat-trap. Very unfortunate and sad, ...

Rhiannon has maintained for years that she wants to be a wizard when she grows up. In preparation, she is potion-maker extraordinaire. Often...

Taliesin wanted pet rats for his birthday. He is certainly getting old enough to shoulder the responsibility of a pet, so we let him do ...

My kids participated excitedly in this action with three of their friends. It took me a long time to post this, but thanks to the person who...

My family has a lot of Brio train tracks. Yes. A LOT. I had quite a bit when I was a child - nearly enough to reach from one end of our 40-f...

Thomas' dancing blob! It was a mixture of cornstarch and water which, when blasted from below with music, actually got up and danced...