Unschooling has seemed in my household to be promoting materialism, commercialism, etc….and I can’t help but feel pangs of doubt when I look around at all the STUFF we’re buying and accumulating because dd sees it and wants it. Plus, I find that dd (age 5) doesn’t even really seem to care about most of [...]
If anyone else is living with a spouse with a progressive illness, and unschooling/trying to parent respectfully, I’d love to talk.. My dear husband has had Parkinson’s disease for about 20 years. He is a young man by PD standards - just 56. The past few years things have become much worse for him [...]
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you have a “touchy” kid and he will probably ALWAYS be like that - expect him to gravitate toward careers that involve the sense of touch. I have one of my three like that too - she was JUST like him when she was five - I could have written just what you did - [...]
Cigarettes? or drugs?
It really doesn’t matter. It’s the whole forbidden fruit thing. Forbid it, and you can rest assured that they will try it.
Same with drugs, alcohol, tobacco and sex—and any other sticky thing. Ban it, and you’re setting yourself up for failure. *Talk* about it, make it a regular part of your discussions, and [...]
I am not big on “punishments” or “grounding” or whatever- I have always just talked it out. The last few weeks have been challenging to me. I have lost my temper on more than one occasion. It seems to stem around my daughter who has started lying to us- about important things. Last week I [...]