Day 132

Goings on in our home… Jacqueline went to a birthday party for her friend Jasmine at Chuck E. Cheese’s. Besides the noise level being almost deafening (which is ironic coming from me after all the hard rock concerts I’ve been to), I actually like taking my kids there. Every game is one token, which is great because 20 tokens each goes a long way and I always go to their website and print out coupons. Most of...

Day 130 (Cheers & Jeers)

The girls & I went shopping today for arts & crafts suppplies. I wanted to pick up some colored card stock, metallic or paint markers and some stickers for the Artist Trading Cards we’ve been making and trading. Jacqueline also wanted to see if she could get a felt tip pen for drawing. I have an educators discount card from joanns craft store, (open to all homeschoolers) although I had haven’t been in...

Day 129 (Unschooling Voices podcast)

Queana has posted Unschooling Voices in podcast format. Click that link to “hear” installment one of Unschooling Voices. How exciting! Thanks Queana! If you haven’t sent it in yet, don’t forget to send in a blog post for the next Unschooling Voices. Here’s the information. Remember, you don’t have to answer the question of the month…I only write them for those who choose to answer...

Day 128

Some cute Jacqueline-isms that I wanted to share (and remember): Billy came home from work one evening last week and Jacquline was on playstation. He started playing with her but then pooped out soon after. When she saw him putting his control down and get up to change out of his work clothes, she said “Dad, I’ll play an easier game with you if you want”. ….how sweet… My seven year old takes it...

Controlling what a child eats

I started a discussion on the forums at Forever Parents about a specific issue with Shawna and some interesting thoughts came out about controlling what a child eats, body awareness and emotional eating. I’m going to repost my comments here for anyone who may find themselves in a simular situation.“I disagree with the information you were given by the dietician. I would never control what Jacqueline eats. She eats...

Jan Hunt

If you haven’t read Jan Hunts website, The Natural Child Project, I highly recommend it. I enjoyed reading “22 Alternatatives to Losing it”, “Deschooing a Parent” and “What do Children Want”? I also wanted to share some of Jan Hunt’s words that someone posted on an unschooling e-mail list. “Empathic parenting, to put it simply, is beleiving what we in our hearts to be...

Day 125 (Visitor Geography)

I’ve blogged before about how my kids use a blog tracker to see which countries our visitors come from. Then they (mostly Jacqueline) likes to find them on our world map. Here’s the latest stats. United StatesCanadaUnited KingdomFranceAustraliaGermanyNetherlandsMalaysiaPhilippinesNew ZealandIrelandSingaporeJapanBahamasIsraelHong KongVirgin Islands, U.S.PortugalMexicoIndiaSwitzerlandUnited Arab...

Day 124 (submission reminder)

If you haven’t sent it in yet, don’t forget to send in a blog post for the next Unschooling Voices. Here’s the informations. Remember, you don’t have to answer the question of the month…I only write them for those who choose to answer them. All unschooling posts will be accepted. Related Tags: unschooling voices, unschooling carnival In other news…I seemed to have gained a child overnight....

Everyday Blessings

I’ve blogged about Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting before. It’s one of my favorite parenting books and although I don’t own a copy (yet), I borrow it from the library often. In the back of the book, they list 12 exercises for mindful parenting. I wrote about the first two of them in my other post. The third one is: Practice seeing your children as perfect just the way they are. See if...

Children & spirituality

A few months ago, I asked (on an unschooling e-mail list) for suggestions on childrens books (mainly non fiction and written for children) about spirituality, postive affirmations, meditations, personal development, etc. Although we haven’t read all of them yet, here is the list, along with comments from the members.If you know of any others that we might like, please let us know by adding a comment. Thanks! “The...