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Our Second Grade School Day

By EM Posted on May 31, 2019 Posted in Homeschool Tagged with boundaries, chickens, curricula, dogs, free range parenting, homeschooling, practice
Our Second Grade School Day

The house wakes early, even in the dark. Partly because kids are insane, and partly because I have a puppy, which is another story. In any case, by 6:30am the dog is pooping, Boots is shuffling cards, Shortshanks is asking …

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Let Them Be Bonked

By EM Posted on June 3, 2015 Posted in Parent Tagged with free range parenting
Let Them Be Bonked

Confession: I let my toddler pull a kitchen chair down on top of himself. I could’ve jumped up and righted the chair before it fell, but I didn’t.

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Kindness + Reality Teaches

By EM Posted on May 27, 2015 Posted in Parent Tagged with free range parenting, positive discipline
Kindness + Reality Teaches

Before you decide that “kindness teaches best” is some kind of frufru, no-accountability form of permissive parenting, hold on a second.

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New Series: Parenting Diaries

By EM Posted on April 8, 2015 Posted in Parent Tagged with free range parenting, positive discipline
New Series: Parenting Diaries

Lately I’ve been wanting to write about parenting. I really like the Positive Discipline approach, which pretty much saved me about a decade ago when I was moving to France to be a nanny with no prior childcare experience. Three months …

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If my children were fairy tale characters, they'd be King Sturdy and Shortshanks. I'd be the Master Maid. As for the mister, he'd be Boots of course.

 

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