Editor’s Pick. Written by Jay Griffiths. Take a step back for a moment. Letting children have their own way? Doing just what they like? Wouldn’t that be a total disaster? Yes, if parents perform only the first half of the trick. In the cultural lexicon of modernity, self-will is often banally understood as brattish, selfish…
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Freedom Paradise Found
Editor’s Pick. Written by Jack Wheeler. Edinburgh-of-the-Seven-Seas, Tristan da Cunha, South Atlantic Ocean. Welcome to the most isolated community on the planet, on the world’s remotest inhabited island. Named after the Portuguese captain who discovered it in 1506, Tristão da Cunha, it is 1,736 miles from Africa, and 2,466 miles from South America. The nearest…
Unschooled Kids Mythbusting
Editor’s Pick. Written by Shae. Generalizations make the baby jeebus weep. And I’m getting a bit over them to be honest. Lets bust some myths shall we? Unschooled kids are all weird. You know what? Some are. REALLY weird even. But then there are a whole bunch of kids who have never set foot inside…
Flowing with the Stresses of Kids
Editor’s Pick. Written by Leo Babauta. Parenting can be stressful. That’s probably one of my bigger understatements, but as the father of 6 kids, I’ve learned a little about handling these stresses so that it’s not such a big deal anymore. Kids throw tantrums, demand to have their way, don’t see anything but their own…
The ABCs of Connecting with Our Kids
Editor’s Pick. Written by Ness Hoffmann. If you’re a regular reader of One Perfect Day, you’ll know that I’m passionate about building strong, positive and nurturing relationships with our kids. Here’s a list of ways to build a more connected relationship with your child. Some of these are very simple ideas, but it’s those little…
What Are Ethics Anyway?
Editor’s Pick. Written by Justin Nafziger. I have observed that people confuse various adjacent terms and ideas as equivalent. Belief and conviction for example, while they may overlap are not one and the same. Another oft misconstrued association is mixing morality, integrity and ethics. To be sure, they do interact heavily, but one and the…
The Politics of Play
Editor’s Pick. Written by Jay Griffiths. Aged fourteen and without his parents’ approval, the future King Henry II hired a band of mercenaries, sailed from France to England, and failed to take two minor castles. In the realm of fiction, the audacious and adventurous Huckleberry Finn, only “thirteen or fourteen,” rebels against the mores of…
The End of Power
Editor’s Pick. Written by Moisés Naím. Power is shifting—from large, stable armies to loose bands of insurgents, from corporate leviathans to nimble start-ups, from presidential palaces to public squares. It has become harder to wield power and easier to lose it, and the world is becoming less predictable as a result. As people become more…
Education is Liberation
Editor’s Pick. Written by Lisa. Education is liberation, inspiration, self-realization and self-actualization.School is indoctrination, automation, dictation and regurgitation. Education is self awareness, not test preparedness.Independence, not checking attendance. Facilitation of creation.Not coercion and assertion. Schools teach rules to make tools. (It is a factory of fools.) Life’s teachers encourage grit, not ask you to submit.…
Why Low Skilled Immigrants are Good for the Economy
Editor’s Pick. Video by ReasonTV.