Sharing Sleep Cultivates Confidence & Independence
Orion is almost 10 and we still co-sleep. All of our children have slept in our bed, which has evolved over time. At one point all six of us were in one room with two queen beds and two twins all pushed together to form one enormous bed! It was so cozy! Right now there […]
Arbitrary Rules: Absolute Risk
Arbitrary Rules: Absolute Risk Growing up, most of us were told by the adults in our lives that punishing us was necessary to teach us about consequences. However, arbitrary rules and punishments for the sake of teaching us model unrealistic circumstances and inauthenticity. This damaged our relationship with our parents most of all – the […]
Free Your Family Camp in Acapulco, Mexico
If you’ve been looking for something fun to do with your family, where you can learn more about Radical Unschooling and Peaceful Parenting, please check out my Free Your Family Camp at Anarchapulco! Here is a detailed outline of the Free Your Family Camp. If you have any questions, please feel free to message me. Cost […]
Radical Unschooling Reading: The Long Hard Road To Trusting Your Children
All of my children have learned how to read, in their own time with support and facilitation. If my children ask me how to spell something, I spell it out for them. I don’t tell them to go look it up, themselves. I am here by their side as a resource and I am up […]
What Really Spoils Children
When you give to your children abundantly, from a place of pure love, they learn generosity and kindness. When you give to your children from a place of guilt or fear, children learn to buy love. This is an important distinction between two intentions in giving and one reason why people believe that giving to […]
Can Peaceful Parenting End the ‘Mean Girls’ Epidemic?
Tiffany, her friend Zoe and I recently went to the UK to visit my mother in England. I had a speaking engagement in Scotland, so it was a great time to go on a trip and explore Europe. It was a marvelous adventure. We have never brought a friend with us before to see my […]
Practice What You Peacefully Preach
We have been conditioned by society to obey our masters and answer questions when asked. However, as free-thinking individuals practicing peaceful parenting, we should never do this. Unless we are inspired to connect and share, we owe no one an explanation for the choices in our lives. In this essay, I offer you a perspective that […]
Cultivating Self-Love for Youth and Vitality
Once a week or so, I take a day to recharge and go inward. I am a highly sensitive, empathic individual and without a regular mindful practice of self-care, I can easily get out of balance. I have people message me with questions about how I maintain my energy of, “youth and vitality”. (which is […]
Forced Memorization is Abuse
The idea that anyone needs to memorize state capitals or times tables is outdated. Forced memorization is an obsolete practice of learning, in general. I suppose, it is a branch of learning, where many of us know things from being forced to memorize. However, I don’t consider it necessary or even healthy. Deeply integrated learning […]
Returning Home to a Teen Runaway
It’s been a crazy summer! I’ve been traveling for speaking gigs, almost non-stop. Last night, I returned home from a short trip down south, to find one of my daughter’s friends here at our house. This girl is almost eighteen, just shy of a few months, and we’ve known her for a few years now. […]
