Saturday Reviews: Free to Learn
For years, I’ve said that Alfie Kohn’s Unconditional Parenting is the one parenting book I would recommend for anyone to ever read. Close behind are Dr.
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Blogs to Follow
I’ve been finding so many different unschooling and peaceful parenting blogs lately and I wanted to share some of them with you. Some of these are older blogs that have not been updated in a while, but they contain a lot of archived, useful information. Check them out, especially if you are new to the unschooling journey and want some ideas and advice.
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Pray for a strong-willed child
While browsing through the library’s parenting section the other day, I ran across a book called When Your Child Has a Strong-Willed Personality. It was all about understanding what your child needs and helping him adapt—or so the cover read. It’s written by two doctors, but it reads like it is either written by a non-native speaker or someone who doesn’t know how to write, because it’s just rambling, unorganized and very, very dull. It’s also full of advice that makes me bristle.
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What are you reading?
Yesterday I picked out a huge armful of books at the library. This is the danger of arriving early to a program, folks! We were there for Ms. M’s wonderful songs, storytelling, crafts and even a visit from Z the therapy dog, but since we arrived early I had time to browse. So I brought home an armload of books. Here are these books plus the two I’m already reading from an interlibrary loan; what parenting books (or other books, for that matter) are you reading right now?
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Archie Comics hold their first gay wedding
Archie Comics broke ground with their first openly gay character Kevin Keller some time ago. And now the familiar little square comic book is holding its first gay wedding, between Kevin and his fiancee. Despite calls from parenting groups to boycott the comic, it has already sold out, and the Archie Comics co-executive John Goldwater is standing behind the issue.
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More News This Week
Our modern techniques of letting babies “cry it out,” isolating babies in their own rooms, not responding to needs immediately and other forms of parenting are taking their toll on our kids, say psychology researchers from Notre Dame. Our modern day parenting is resulting in worsening life outcomes and poor brain development.
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What’s Happening: Deschooling ourselves
This post about things every parent should know from Mind Body Green is very interesting. What do you think about it? What would you cut—or add? I really like these sentiments and pretty much agree with them. I do wish that we could all really trust ourselves—not just on our parenting but on so many other matters instead of needing an “expert” to show us how to do something.
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Monday Medley: Marketing motherhood
Mothering Magazine is stressing how marketers just don’t get mothers, and I wholly applaud the piece. Read it if you’ve ever felt that marketers either make you feel inadequate with their perfect representations of moms—or if you’re just irritated at their ridiculous portrayal of us all.
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Monday Medley: Eat your cucumbers for good health
Did you know that cucumbers contain most of the vitamins you need every day? And here I thought they were just water! I love cucumbers so this is great news to me. Now to get Wood Sprite on board somehow… She’s not a fan!
Check out these real life “flying” dragons in Indonesia! Wood Sprite got a kick out of them.
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What do you want most for your kids?
One of the reasons many parents don’t want to send their kids to public school is because it doesn’t align with their parenting goals. Some families want to teach their children ethics much more closely, which is easier when you’re with your kids all day. Some know their children, and from experience they know their kids either wouldn’t flourish in a cookie cutter setting or that much of the studies they would have to complete in public school wouldn’t really serve them in their lifetime.
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