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You Can Always Leave
Editor’s Pick. Video by bitbutter.
Anarchist Kid
Editor’s Pick. Video by nptraveller.
Control Your Child! Oh Wait, How did you do that?!?
Editor’s Pick. Written by Ariadne Brill. I was at the store recently, doing groceries at the end of a long day. Our dog had died the day before and the kids had come down with a cold. I was feeling sad, grief struck, tired and really all I wanted to do was buy some food,…
Habit Mastery: Creating the New Normal
Editor’s Pick. Written by Leo Babauta. Changing habits, at its core, is simply a process of changing what’s normal for you. This is something I’ve done myself a gajillion times over the last 7-8 years: not smoking became my new normal (lots of pain for a month or so) running became normal eating vegetarian became…
Radical Unschooling vs. Permissive Parenting
Editor’s Pick. Written by Dayna Martin. Over the years, Radical Unschooling has been mistaken for “permissive parenting,” and many judgments have been made about it based on this misbelief. The truth is, Radical Unschooling is an extension of Attachment Parenting philosophy and is a very hands-on, involved approach based on connection, rather than control. The…
How to Teach Your Child To Do What’s Right
Editor’s Pick. Written by Laura Markham. Kids need our hugs, but that’s not what teaches them to do right. How do kids learn? Our modeling. When we take responsibility, when we apologize, when we regulate our own emotions so we aren’t yelling at them, children learn to take responsibility, to apologize, to regulate their own…
The Beginner’s Guide to Unschooling
Editor’s Pick. Written by Leo Babauta. There’s nothing I get asked about more as a parent than unschooling, and nothing I recommend more to other parents. It’s an educational philosophy that provides for more freedom than any other learning method, and prepares kids for an uncertain and rapidly changing future better than anything else I…
Intellectual Property and the Great “Debate”
Editor’s Pick. Written by Matthew Alexander. I come to the battlefield after the fires have extinguished and the embers cooled, but having fully intended to write something on the subject when it was hot, I feel the central topic is timeless and the particular affair in question momentous enough to warrant some comments, even if…
Freedom versus Mandatory Charity
Editor’s Pick. Written by Jacob Hornberger. Imagine if Congress enacted a law requiring everyone to attend church on Sunday. The idea would be that mandatory church attendance would be good for American society. With everyone being inculcated with moral and religious principles once a week, our society would be less drug-ridden, violent, and dysfunctional. The…