Written by Sandra Dodd, as published at The Natural Child Project. Following years of sporadic reports by people who claimed they had tried unschooling but it hadn’t worked for them, I started tracking their similarities and, as usual, I learned something new. And, as usual, I thought I should share it so others might not…
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Agorism and Nazism: A Study in Polar Opposites
Written by Neil M. Tokar, as published at the Center for a Stateless Society. Perhaps one of the most impressive examples of the counter-economics idea in action is that of what businesspeople did in order to evade the price control laws of Nazi Germany. It also gives me the opportunity to bring to light an…
Nurturing Children’s Natural Love of Learning
Written by Jan Hunt for The Natural Child Project. Nurturing a child’s love for learning begins with trust. As unschoolers, we trust our children to know when they are ready to learn and what they are interested in learning. We trust them to know how to go about learning. Parents commonly take this view of…
Be The Person You Want Your Child To Become
Written by Darci Walker for Core Parenting. Remember in kindergarten when we learned the golden rule? Treat others as you would want them to treat you. Remember last week when you heard that parent say to their child, “If you want them to share with you, you might try sharing with them”? Now, remember that…
Men Act, States Don’t
Written by Chris Bassil for Duke’s The Chronicle. There is a tendency, in contemporary political and economic discourse, to reduce conversations to the level of the aggregate. Thus, we speak in terms of “labor” seeking goals, “nations” taking action and “society” handing the president a mandate. Such a way of looking at the world, as convenient…
Marriage: Rendering Unto Caesar That Which Is God’s
Written by Connor Boyack for his personal blog. Because of a desire by the state to control procreation and keep the white race pure, licenses were increasingly required throughout the 19th century, and by the early 20th century every state in the Union had adopted license requirements to allow a couple to marry, even if…
Garden of Your Mind
Created by pbsdigitalstudies.
What Every Parent Needs to Know About Praise
Written by Laura Markham for Aha! Parenting. Most parents know that negative judgments undermine children, and at least try to bite their tongue instead of saying “What?! Are you an idiot?!” But positive judgments like “What a smart boy!” also sabotage children. Kids who are told they’re smart don’t want to disprove it, so they avoid situations in which…
Information Liberated
An interview with Jeffrey Tucker by Reason.tv.
The Right Thing for Our Children?
Written by Kicking it Unschool. Why do we send our children off to school when they are 6 years old? Just because that’s what most everyone else does? Because that’s what our parents did with us? If we didn’t have the idea that we needed to send our children to school at age 6, would…