Written by Kelly for Positive Parenting Connection. Attachment parenting is often associated with babies and very young children. But what happens when your baby is too big for a sling or your preschooler has weaned? Does attachment parenting have to stop? Not at all. The basis of attachment parenting is getting tuned-in to your child,…
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A Line in the Sand
Send him mail. “Coexisting with Coercion” is an original b-weekly column appearing every other Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by qyj0L. qyj0L is a thinker, a writer, an artist, a dreamer, and a believer. Archived columns can be found here. CWC-only RSS feed available here. Hey there, freedom lovers. By reading this, you have already taken steps…
The Secret Ingredient to a Happy Childhood
Written by Rose Goddess for Rose Goddess Bliss. A couple of months ago we went on our very first road trip with David, our two year old son. It was soooo much fun! While on the road I was able to listen to recordings of Eckhart Tolle and read a couple of books, one of…
On Our Children and Their Education
Written by Helen and Mark Hegener, as published in The Voluntaryist, October 1992. None of the calls to environmental action ever go quite far enough. Unless some very real, very lasting changes are made, and soon, it won’t matter much whether or not we’ve saved the whales, or the spotted owls, or the forests. We…
Free Children
Writes Free Your Kids: Our “free” children do not run wild. They don’t run the house. We do not live in chaos. We do have rules in our house, but they derive from one basic premise: do what you wish so long as you’re not harming another. Hitting someone won’t be tolerated. Breaking an agreement…
Keep Their Children Out of School?
Wrote John Holt: Why do people take or keep their children out of school? Mostly for three reasons: they think that raising their children is their business not the government’s; they enjoy being with their children and watching and helping them learn, and don’t want to give that up to others; they want to keep…
The Real World
Writes Kicking it Unschool: There is the opinion that school prepares children for the “real world”. I disagree. First of all, children are often forced to go to school against their will. Then they are forced to associate with the children in their classes, lunch hour, and recess. Their lives are put on a schedule…
Voluntaryism as a System of Values
Send him mail. “One Improved Unit” is an original bi-weekly column appearing every other Monday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OIU-only RSS feed available here. I will own this interpretation, but I think that all voluntaryism really comes down to is a system of…
Re: Are Children Self-Owners or Slaves?
As an update to this post: After all of the discussion I’ve had on this the last few days, it seems the above is incomplete. I will add this, from Debbie Harbeson, “If one accepts that the principle of non-aggression is valid, there is no need to put children in a separate category of discussion…
Natural Consequences
Writes Matt Stocks: My wife and I recently went through a Love and Logic course. It was interesting because it was presented through the filters of statists with a belief in social contract, etc. We took the parts we felt were simply dealing with addressing a child not following the NAP and how do we…