Part of parenting is teaching our children how to negotiate their boundaries. This means letting them try and fail at …

Nowadays, kids don’t have much use for survival skills. However, letting kids play with fire can be good — vital …

New moms are often exhausted, and uncertain.  Babies can cry from hardly at all, to seemingly all the time.  It’s …

These days, everyone’s constantly up in arms about something.  Something’s going wrong, someone’s hurting someone else, this or that corporation or …

It has been a long, hard road since I decided two years ago that I didn’t want to spank anymore. …

Christmas is coming. My mom used to say this to me whenever I begged for a toy.  It was sort …

If you haven’t noticed, we’ve been focusing on “myths” this month.  There are a lot out there to bust! I figured …

Imagine this, if you will:  You’re expecting your first child (or maybe it’s your fifth), and you boldly proclaim to …

Say what? Isn’t “unschooling lesson plan” pretty much an oxymoron?  Well, maybe.  I’d imagine most unschooling families don’t make any …

Many of our readers know that we are homeschooling our children — unschooling them, actually.  Some like to ask us …