Rickshaw Unschooling

Our trip to Europe last year taught me a lot that I needed to know about parenting. It's never too late to learn these things, and I&#...

The frustrating, demented sounds of the nearly-intelligible Sim-language have been drifting through my house for ages. If your kids play Si...

When I was about 18 my Dad told me under no uncertain terms that although he accepted gay people and had "even" gone to and enjo...

Pat Gallaher  --  1949-2015 It's my Dad's 70th birthday today. He's been gone four and a half years and I still miss him e...

For a number of years in our household, there's been discussion about whether or not to graduate - to get the diploma - to take a bunch ...

Elisabeth van Lidth de Jeude - van Wely When I think about family togetherness, I often think about my Groodmoeder . Technically she was...

We become hardened, as parents. I tell you the good stories first, and if I share the struggles I finish with something hopeful or I say ...

When I was 26, bewildered and a bit in shock with the reality of new motherhood, I took my baby to our local Family Place, and sat around t...

Jim looking at his niece. Relationships with fathers are rarely idealistic. I choose the word idealistic purposefully, because there...

Me in my garden - photo by my son Taliesin River. I started unschooling my kids rather out of a place of despair, when my son's lear...

Found: A decomposing, rat-chewed deer vertebra. This morning my fabulous group of Wild Art kids and I lay on the forest floor with o...

My fourteen-year-old daughter is spending today doing and creating crossword puzzles, playing Sims, and rehearsing for her current role as G...

"No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them."                ~Assata Shakur Our family didn't o...