The Berenstain Bears Go to School First Day Jitters Miss Nelson is Missing Recognize these titles? They are just three of the 274,222 children’s books listed under the term “school’ on Amazon. 274,222 books! This is a lucky thing if you’ve got a child in school. Got teacher troubles? There’s a book for that. Dealing […]
Play and (Don’t) Walk Away
Back in my mainstream days, I was an avid fan of the nanny shows. There were several on at the time, and they all boasted the same thing – that by using their techniques even the most wild of children could be tamed, that houses filled with chaos and bad behavior could be transformed into […]
Rileigh Forslund: Voice of an Unschooler
Over the past week, I’ve had the opportunity to hold a series of interviews with sixteen year old unschooler, Rileigh Forslund. Hearing about her experience with unschooling has been really fascinating – especially since she’s been at this much longer than I have! I hope you’ll enjoy hearing her story as much as I have! […]
Empty Nest
Our three-year old, Maggie, has always co-slept with us. But a little over a year ago we discovered the amazing benefits of co-sleeping as an entire family. For 13 blissful months, we all slept like babies. Seriously… I hadn’t been so well rested in decades. And then it happened. Thomas, just shy of 10 years […]
Double Digits
Today Thomas turns ten. “Double Digits!” everybody exclaims when he announces his new age, “How exciting!” And it is. But not only for the reasons you might think. When Thomas was two years old, we began a descent into a years-long nightmare that left me, in my darkest moments, uncertain whether Thomas had any kind […]