Rickshaw Unschooling

Long-distance friendships... Skype to the rescue! I have been a non-Skype-user; actually I'm pretty much clueless about a lot of communi...

Rhiannon made a lovely winter campfire this month, with mini-sausages for roasting!

I have sometimes posted my thoughts about the public school system, or (often) said or implied that I think unschooling is better than other...

The winter has been good to us, this year. Our lakes have become skate-able, and for some of us, this is one of the many definitions of joy ...

Some photos of our last month, in no particular order, just for those who wonder what we do all day... Making gingerbread constructio...

This is a follow-up to my previous post on the topic , and, in that vein, could be alternately titled: While Letting Go of Control, Harnes...

This is inspired by Kathy Woodford's video, which I'll post at the end of this post. It's a gentle, supportive video intended sp...

Just a week after the anniversary of the attacks at Ecole Polytechnique, today hits me with news of two more attacks on groups of helpless...

Or: What do colony collapse disorder, melatonin, sleeping disorders, cancer and other diseases have to do with electromagnetic radiation? ...

I've been having a difficult time expressing myself these past couple of years. I'm still persevering - yes - in the hopes that the ...

This is the year my children have grown outside the sphere of my involvement. It began with a trip to meet their friends in the meadow. Th...

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 ...