Rickshaw Unschooling

It's midnight, the night before Easter breakfast. Our annual nettle picking is done; half of the nettles already put up in the freezer...

My children’s last great-grandparent has died. I wasn’t sure what to say about it for some time, since I am dealing with my own emotions aro...

Before I could get rid of this giant cardboard box, my kids hatched a plan to turn it into a vending machine. And over the weekend, with...

I sit down with a new group of kids, their wide eyes looking up at me, waiting to see what we'll be doing for the day. It sounds...

unschooling music by playing his own way I come from music, through my mother. When I was little, music was how we lived. I knew how she...

When I was a new mother, my father told me that I took too many photos. He said my children knew the round circle of my camera lens better...

"So how many rivers in Tiel?" Grootmoeder asked me, from the driver's seat of her little car as we drove along the cobbled roa...

My kid is not a genius. Nope. Neither of my kids is a genius, in fact. I wish people would stop using that word. This seems like a ridic...

When I was a teen, my cousin told me that his father had promised to bake him a cake if ever he or his brother surpassed him in height. It w...

Explorative , creative learning is important . But it can be very hard to make happen, especially for those (most) of us parents who wer...

Exciting news, here... remember when I reluctantly gave up most of my teaching in order to concentrate on my art career? I still love teac...

Between the teens and the new feline baby I am getting absolutely nothing done this afternoon, so why not share a bunch of kitten photos? I ...

When I was a teen, I learned about the troubles that human greed would eventually bring us; chiefly through global warming, by the year 2100...

Last night I watched Roger Waters perform Another Brick in the Wall (We Don't Need No Education) with a group of local kids. I reali...

One of the biggest obstacles to getting engaged with the wilderness is a lack of inspiration. Kids - especially urban kids - simply don&#...