‘I tried letting my children choose their own bedtime, but they didn’t sleep when I wanted them to.’ ‘I tried respecting my children’s autonomy with food, but they didn’t eat when/what I wanted them to.’ ‘I tried letting my children … Continue reading
Ahh parenting myths. We have all heard some. ‘Stop picking that child up! You’ll spoil them!’ ‘Babies cry to exercise their lungs’ ‘A little whisky in your bottle never hurt you’ Err…. ok. Some are very easy to dismiss as terribly … Continue reading
“Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.” -Denis Waitley What does bedtime look like in a family where there is no enforced bedtime? How does it come … Continue reading
“The things we know and believe are a part of us. We feel we have always known them. Almost anything else, anything that doesn’t fit into our structure of knowledge, our mental model of reality, is likely to seem strange, … Continue reading
My children have no bedtime. All four of them. Apart from a short period with our oldest two where we fell into a bedtime habit before realising our mistake, it has always been this way. From birth, through infancy, as … Continue reading
Unschooling. When most people hear the word they can understand what it means relatively easily, or close enough anyway. The prefix ‘un’ added to the word ‘schooling’ means that it does literally mean ‘not school’. Yep, no school. None. Zip. … Continue reading