We’re just now feeling our regular, joyful familial groove return from our time spent gorging on connection, freedom of mind and space, and the annual quintessential family reunion we call The Rethinking Everything Conference. There are a great many ideas, situations, and conversations on which to reflect and I will continue to analyze [...]
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We all want what’s best for our children, don’t we? The answer is ‘yes‘. Even parents whose short-term motives and tactics I question have the same long-term goal – healthy, well-adjusted, caring, ’successful’ adults (we can debate the qualities of this last one some other time). When we were transitioning our suburban life to one on [...] Yesterday I re-posted a link on my Facebook page to The Center for Effective Discipline’s Spank Out Day. Honestly, I almost didn’t re-post it because I thought it rather unnecessary to tell people not to spank for two reasons. 1) Most people don’t spank anymore anyway. 2) People that do spank know there are better [...] My kids love to watch PBS. Fetch with Ruff Ruffman and Cyberchase are two of their favorite shows. And they learn alot from them. I must admit, so do I! For the most part, we find the minimal advertising that PBS presents innocuous. There’s a newish ad that they are running that burns my kids [...]
“I am youth! I am joy! I am freedom!” sang Peter Pan, as he flew through the air across the stage avoiding Captain Hook’s grasp with each pass. As I sat this morning in Casa Manana Children’s Theatre enjoying another spectacular play, I noted once again with interest how often undertones and flat-out overtones of [...] Have you ever thought about why you say the word, “no” to your children? Parents are incredibly trigger happy and “no” is their bullet. Sometimes “no” is disguised in a few other words or hidden entirely in a phrase that sounds different but, in the end, means “no” (e.g. – “not right now”). Children [...] I recently came upon the Family Mental Health blog on PsychCentral.com about unschooling. More specifically, the writer of the blog lived up to the initials following her name and questioned Good Morning America’s edited portrayal and highly biased discussion of the unschooling lifestyle. She conveyed her gut reaction after viewing the piece and made a call [...] Good Morning America responded quickly yesterday to emotional viewer reactions over their highly edited and opinionated segment on radical unschooling. Christine Yablonski and Phil Biegler were flown to New York City to appear on this morning’s show to offer information about radical unschooling in conjunction with Pat Farenga - home- and unschooling expert. They responded to a few [...]
The Biegler/Yablonski family was featured on Good Morning America this morning hoping to shed some light on radical unschooling during mainstream America’s morning cuppa’ joe. GMA quickly put a halt to any open discussion that might have been had in the MAINstream, however, by spewing their negative judgments and opinions before, during, and [...] There have been a smattering of blog comments in response to Discovery Health’s ‘Radical Parenting’ special indicating that Child Protective Services should be involved with our family. Why? From the perspective of an overbearing, traditionally-minded parent, the dynamic of our family is frighteningly lax. It is immediately assumed that because our children are not FORCED [...] As a Registered Nurse for 12 years, I am very familiar with the phrase, “eating our young.” In a Google search, I find all the references to this phrase to be in regards to nursing. Sad… and curious because I know this is not the only group in which this pattern of behavior occurs- alienation, [...] I’ve been busy… starting a magazine! Barb Lundgren and I have been inspired to start a magazine publishing personal stories of monumental journeys of change that have brought individuals from traditional to transformed. If you have a personal story featuring a metamorphosis of some aspect of your life that has left you blissfully outside societal [...] |
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