9/7/25 9/7/25

Unschool Crime Connections

25/1/25 25/1/25

Some Strange and Interesting Bookish Questions

22/1/25 22/1/25

Need Some Unschooling Encouragement and Ideas to Ponder?

30/11/24 30/11/24

Do You Need to Follow an Older Unschooler? (Part 1)

12/10/24 12/10/24

When Our Kids Are Wired Differently

27/9/24 27/9/24

Christian Unschooling: Should We Encourage Our Kids to Seek Security?

Should we encourage our kids to seek security? Is it our parental duty to make sure they receive the education and opportunities they might need to get safe, well-paying jobs when they leave our care? Or is that kind of security not what our children need? Could security be about something else?

31/8/24 31/8/24

Choosing an Exceptional Unschool Life and Other Things

Do we sometimes want to use someone else’s plan for our lives? Or are we willing to embrace adventure? Do you journal? Analogue or digital? How do we achieve our goals? I’m sharing podcasts, books, videos and thoughts that I’ve been pondering this week.

23/4/24 23/4/24

Chatting with My Unschooled Author Daughter

8/12/23 8/12/23

Do You Have an Anti-Library?

There are two untidy, unread book towers balanced on my desk. Every now and then, I add another book to one of the piles. And occasionally, I remove a book, settle somewhere comfortable and read it.Standing in front of the book display in our local department store, Big W, I used to say to my daughter, Imogen, “I’d love to buy this book, but I shouldn’t. I’ve got lots of unread books at home.” I thought collecting more books was greedy when I hadn’t worked my way through the ones I already owned.

5/12/23 5/12/23

Crime Novels and Priestly Detective Rules

29/11/23 29/11/23

Is it Risky to Share Our Book Collections? What Will People Think?

Do our bookshelves reveal things about ourselves? Are there times when we'd rather no one knows what we read to avoid possible criticism? Do we use books to project a particular image? Maybe our book collections sometimes deceive? Are some books better than others? Or can we learn something from everything we read? Could sharing the books we're reading lead to some fascinating unschooling conversations?