Education

How We Plan To Develop The Confidence To Let Our Children Be Free (#parenting, #childhood, #risk)

A friend of mine once told me that I would not know true terror until I had had a kid. And he didn’t mean that children were terrible or terrifying — he was talking…

Why Homeschooling? (#education, #homeschool, #parenting)

This is adapted from an email I recently sent to a friend, who asked, “Why do you plan to homeschool your child?”

Education is informed by parenting and values
When we think about the purpose of parenting…

Your Rich Ancestry (#family, #heritage, #wealth, #inheritance)

To my Little Lion,

We’ve been reading up on the RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers) philosophy of Magda Gerber in more depth since you were born. We were already familiar with the basic…

Another Story About The ER (#health, #parenting, #infancy, #risks)

The following is an email sent by a friend who reads the blog in response to the recent posts about my visit to the ER. It is about an experience he had with his infant daughter and I got his permission to share it…

Review — How Children Learn (#children, #learning, #education)

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by John Holt, published 1995

What I Learned In Our At Home RIE Session (#RIE, #infancy, #education, #parenting, #philosophy)

Earlier this week we hosted a RIE-sponsored seminar, “Before Baby” at our home. The seminar organizer asked each of us to journal about our time together and what we…

Review — The Secret Of Childhood (#education, #childhood, #Montessori, #philosophy)

[amazon text=The Secret of Childhood&asin=0345305833]

by Maria Montessori, published 1936, 1982

Review — The School Revolution (#education, @RonPaul, #parenting, #books, #review)

[amazon text=The School Revolution: A New Answer for Our Broken Education System&asin=B00BEK71PC]

Review — Totto-chan (#nonfiction, #books, #Japan, #education)

[amazon text=Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window&asin=1568363915]

by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, published 1981

A New Kind Of “Fairy Tale” (#education, #parenting)

Moral instruction in the form of short stories, nursery rhymes and “fairy tales” is a common tradition in most cultures. In the West in particular, many children grow up learning stories from Aesop’s Fables or other derived literature such…