Written by Laura Markham for Aha! Parenting. You’ve probably heard the term “Acting out’ refer to misbehaving. It actually means to act out a feeling that you can’t express in words. So when your three year old hits the baby, or your five year old throws a toy at you, or your seven year old…
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7 Criteria For Good Parenting
Written by Darci Walker for Core Parenting. I was recently asked to name my favorite parenting philosophy or strategy. My response: “For what child? In what situation? In what family?” I don’t believe in any one perfect parenting strategy. Rather, I believe in good parents who utilize lots of different tools to make good parenting…
Everything, I Mean Everything, Voluntary
Doug French of Laissez Faire Books reviews Everything Voluntary: Skyler J. Collins takes the message of voluntarism to a level that will make even a rabid libertarian uncomfortable in his collection of essays that comprises Everything Voluntary: From Politics to Parenting. Collins comes out swinging in his introduction. He makes the point that today’s politics, education,…
Become a Better Parent This Year
Written by Laura Markham for Aha! Parenting. If you make the same resolution every year, join the club. That doesn’t mean you’re a failure. It means you’re headed in the right direction, and you aren’t perfect yet. (Shocking, I know!) The bad news is, you won’t be perfect this year either. The good news is, you…
Coming and Going
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. What would a column about my personal growth and improvement be without an analysis of the coming year? As…
Effective Ways to Bond With Your Child
Written by Elizabeth Kane for Authentic Parenting. Is it just me, or does bonding always seem too romanticized for real life? We see it in the movies all the time. Kids and parents are smiling at each other in the perfect light. Everyone’s impeccably dressed, saying all the right things at the right time. And…
Deschooling a Parent: Learning to Trust
Written by Jan Hunt for The Natural Child Project. It’s only natural for parents to feel uneasy and uncertain when contemplating a path for their children other than the one they themselves traveled. Those of us who decide to unschool – even when we are convinced that this is the best option for our child…
Baby, You Rock My World
Written by Darci Walker for Core Parenting. Oh, I know what your thinking. But no, I mean it literally. Children ROCK our world. They take what we think is true and right and normal and they squish it up in their chubby little fists and throw it into the toy box to be lost among…
Peaceful Parenting, Peaceful World
Written by Alex Perales for Alex and Liberty. When it comes to most libertarians it is easy to acknowledge that we, in general, dislike those who believe they have some kind of authority over us. We generally don’t want other people telling us what to do and how to live our lives. We often say…
The Way of the Peaceful Parent
Written by Lou Babauta for ZenHabits.net. There is no such thing as stress-free parenting. A reader requested that I share my thoughts on stress-free parenting, as the father of six kids. And while I have learned a lot about being a dad, and finding joy in parenthood, I also know that stress-free parenting is a…