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Everyday Parenting: A Day in the Life of a Respectful Parent
  • May 29, 2017
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Everyday Parenting: A Day in the Life of a Respectful Parent

Sometimes it’s hard to describe what respectful parenting looks like in day to day life. How can it work with multiple autonomous […]

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5 Ways We Undermine Empathy Development in Children
  • May 24, 2017
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5 Ways We Undermine Empathy Development in Children

Big fat tears rolled down my 3-year-old’s cheeks. Her loud cries were jarring against the picturesque background we’d found ourselves in. Her […]

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Freedom Is Not Conditional: 8 Ways to Tell If You’re Respecting Your Child’s Autonomy
  • May 16, 2017
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Freedom Is Not Conditional: 8 Ways to Tell If You’re Respecting Your Child’s Autonomy

I recently spent 4 magical days camping in nature with our closest unschooling friends. Nineteen free, respected, unschooled kids played for four […]

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5 Day Plan to Deepen Connection With Kids
  • May 7, 2017
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5 Day Plan to Deepen Connection With Kids

“BAD BULLY STUPID!!!!” How many times have I heard this shouted lately? It keeps getting longer. The other day I heard ‘bad […]

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Everyday Parenting: The Sex Talk
  • May 3, 2017
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Everyday Parenting: The Sex Talk

“Mum, can you have another baby?” “I don’t think we’re going to have any more babies” “But why not? What if one […]

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Language Matters: Fighting Childism With How We Talk to Children
  • April 30, 2017
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Language Matters: Fighting Childism With How We Talk to Children

Ever had one of those cringey moments where your child responds to a well-meaning stranger in a way that was very unexpected […]

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Children spend a lot of their time being told wher
Children spend a lot of their time being told where to be, when to eat, when to speak, when they can move their bodies, what to learn, when they can go to the toilet... and then we say how lucky they are for not having adult responsibilities.

The amount of control they have over their own lives is so normalised that we rarely even question it. But, we should.

You can't take away autonomy, responsibility, and meaningful contribution and then complain kids are lazy and apathetic. What have we given them to care about? What real choices do they have?


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