Editor’s Pick. Written by Laura Markham. There is no such thing as a brat, only a child who is hurting. When our starting point as parents is a close bond with our children, we are their North Star, the point around which they orient. They want more than anything in the world to protect that…
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Educators in a New Era
Send him mail. “Insight for the Young and Unrestrained” is an original weekly column appearing every Thursday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Gregory V. Diehl. Gregory is a writer, musician, educator, and coach for young people at EnabledYouth.com. Archived columns can be found here. IYU-only RSS feed available here. The accumulated wisdom of mankind has been kept…
Enabling Children To Express All Of Their Emotions
Editor’s Pick. Written by Sam Vickery. You know that feeling when you’re standing in the middle of the supermarket and your child picks that exact moment to have an almighty meltdown? Or when you have people visiting and your child decides that they don’t want to play with the visiting children, and a tussle breaks…
Nurturing Peacefulness
Editor’s Pick. Written by Kerry Spina. Just the word ‘stress’ can make our heart pound, thoughts run wild and body react. Peacefulness is a virtue that can bring the opposite reaction to stress. Balance is restored and nurtured with peacefulness. Peacefulness gives us permission to rest and care for ourselves. It fosters harmonious and respectful…
Doing Good For Goodness Sake
Writes Kicking it Unschool: I try to do what is right simply because it is the right thing to do, not out of fear of punishments or hopes of rewards later down the road. I want the same for my children, and so I do not create artificial consequences for their actions. Acting morally because…
Growing up With Parents
Editor’s Pick. Lecture excerpt by Siri Singh Sahib Ji. In childhood you have never been taught responsibility. You have been shoved and pushed and ordered. The majority of your childhood I have seen in this country is regimented. Nobody uses heart. It is all head thing. So this kind of childhood is very painful. I…
Treating Children as Individuals
Guest column by Sara Dawkins. Sara is an active nanny, as well as an active freelance writer. She is a frequent contributor to Nannypro.com. Learn more about her here. Being born in the late fifties and being raised by my dad who was a product of the world around WWII and the Korean War was…
New Topic: Improvement!
A topic we’ve been unintentionally covering here is self-improvement, or self-growth. One of my columns, Greg Diehl’s column, and frequently shared among the parenting and unschooling Editor’s Picks and other columns are insight on improving one’s self. Change beings from within. Becoming a better person can be challenging. Believe me, I know! I hope these…
A Kid’s Life
Editor’s Pick. Written by Darci Walker. Nine-year-old David comes home, throws his backpack on the floor and stomps off to his room. Several minutes later he is lurking around the kitchen while his mom cooks dinner, poking at his brother, whining to his mother. She tells him to go outside and play until dinner is…
Healthy Partnership Conflict Resolution When you Live With Kids
Editor’s Pick. Written by Laura Markham. The nature of human relationships is that we will disagree. It’s wonderful for children to see their parents model how to work out disagreements. It’s important for them to know that we don’t always agree, but we always love each other. And it’s critical for kids to see us…