Check out my recently published article in Life Learning Magazine- The Mother He Needs

The Parent family will be on Discovery Health representing radical unschooling in March!  Friend me on Facebook to get an update when I am notified of the exact time slot.
Rethinking Everything Magazine- support me, support my new magazine! Tell everyone you know about this amazing publication.  I am so proud of this! These stories are amazing

2009 has been about:

Honesty

Connection

Listening

Opening
What does this have to do with unschooling?
Deep authenticity
True connection with ourselves
Put the Oxygen mask on yourself first
Who am I?

 I would like to express my deepest gratitude to you. We are connected and I feel the energy you offer when you read and listen.  Wishing you a positively brilliant 2010 filled with joy and expansion.

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Music Selections: Send It Up- Vertical Horizon / Our Lives- The Calling

My article, “The Mother He Needs” has been published in the Jan/Feb issue of Life Learning Magazine  online. I’m very proud of this story. It is at the very core of what I feel is important in my mothering- intuitively feeling and truly listening to the needs of our individual children rather than societal and engrained expectations.

In this episode: Sarah talks about social and media influences- deprogramming ourselves to see the empowered decisionmakers in our children.

I’ve been busy!

Check out my new endeavor :

Rethinking Everything Magazine!!!
www.rethinkingeverythingmagazine.net

Who are ‘they’?
Researchers? Other parents?

Studies regarding social influences on children are not studying free children
Most children in our society are oppressed, judged, otherwise altered by the motives of others.
How can these studies apply to our children?

Undesirable messages

Good vs. bad in life- smoking, alcohol, tattoos, clothing choices… What are the issues that bug you?

Free children demonstrate their individuality in their relative disinterest in the choices of others.
We talk about personal choice and evidence- they make their own personal choice

Sex, drugs, language

Video games- violence primarily is the issue
In talks with my kids- ‘we know it’s not real!’
Listen to them- they know
Role playing- pretend- fun, playing out scenarios not experienced in real life

Music- sex, language, violence

TV/movies- Watch with them! Talk about it.

Tune in to your kids.
Music selections:  Who Are They?- Buck O Nine / Anyway- O.A.R.

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I’ve been busy… starting a magazine! Barb Lundgren and I have been inspired to start a magazine publishing personal stories of monumental journeys of change that have brought individuals from traditional to transformed. If you have a personal story featuring a metamorphosis of some aspect of your life that has left you blissfully outside societal and institutional expectations, write us! If you’re interested in subscribing to this bold, new publication, visit our website!

Rethinking Everything Magazine  publishes their first issue in early 2010 We’re looking for writers . . . do YOU have a story to tell?
Write for us Are you ready? Rethinking Everything Magazine publishes their first issue in early 2010! Will the bold, deeply personal stories of change thrill you? Spur some upgraded thinking and inspire your own change?   We’re blazing a brand new trail in the direction of fresh ideas on all fronts - abandoning traditions and institutions and seeking innovations of life and mind. It’s time for change.  The world needs new stories.   YOUR story. www.rethinkingeverythingmagazine.net   Do you know change? If you have experienced monumental, life-altering transformation (that made culture raise an eyebrow), we want to hear from you! Rethinking Everything Magazine pays $100 for published personal stories of change.

It’s OK to be happy. In fact, it’s imperative! Sarah discusses vibration shifts, law of attraction, and just plain improving our lives and the lives of our children through positive thinking and positive energy projection.

Don’t worry, be happy!

Consciously changing our attitudes to project and attract positivity

Negative energy creates tunnel vision

Positive energy allows us to recognize opportunities that we might not otherwise see

Appreciating what we have- money, time, moments- creates energy for intention/creativity

Turn off/away from those people/things that pull your energy down- gossip, media, excessive sarcasm, judgmental family/friends

How does this relate to unschooling?  Living in freedom, mentoring endless possibilities and problem-solving.

Music Selections: Three Little Birds- Bob Marley / Make It Mine- Jason Mraz

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Sarah talks about the fallacy of teaching peace and how to shift our energies toward learning peace from our children.

Teach Peace?

How can this be done living in the current stratified system that continues to field for defense and use it for offense?

Be objective: What do you think? Here’s what I think. Appreciate the beliefs and approaches of others and allow your children to choose.

Sometimes it’s not comfortable. Analyze your own baggage and don’t pass that burden on.

By unschooling and offering the world and all it has to offer, we assist our children to discover, analyze, and create truly new alternatives.

Learn peace from your children!

Music selections: Turning World- Eric Bibb / The General- Dispatch

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Dealing with family members who disapprove of our parenting/educational choices can be difficult. Sarah talks about how to take back the power and move forward with joy.

Show notes:

Family situations

Parenting differences

Educational pressures

Sarah’s story of confrontation, mediation, relocation, and peace

Assume a powerful, peaceful, and positive stance

Your children will be the shining example

Music Selection: Second Chance- Shinedown

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Armed with her core principal of love, trust, and authenticity, Sarah gets specific in how to understand and move through situational emotions.

Show notes:

Say you’re sorry

Be the adult

No judgment

Hear what they mean (or something more endearing to you…

Know your child individually

Stay true to your guiding principle

We are here for each other. We will all (children and adults) experience a range of emotions while we work to understand each other and strive for peaceful relationships.

Authenticity means having emotions and being honest about them. Communicate with each other in a way that serves everyone’s needs. Children will move through unscathed when guilt and shame are not involved in extreme situational emotions.

Music selections:  If I Am- Nine Days / Little Wonders- Rob Thomas

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Finding your guiding principle- what do you want for your children?

Unparenting- how am I parenting if I’m not disciplining?

Re-evaluating what parenting is- eliminating the adversarial relationship

Manners

Body boundaries

Swearing

Discipline- time-outs, etc.

Public situations

Guiding Principle- read it, re-visit it, re-work it, use it!

Music selection: Happiness is- The Verve Pipe

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Homeschoolers don’t ask and don’t tell- getting over the fear in favor of our rights.

Where to find information on your state’s laws and possible changes to them.

Navigating your state’s legislation website/database. 

Current actions in 5 states that require OUR action- Ohio, New Jersey, California, Oklahoma, New Hampshire.

How does the system work? A guide for the process of passing a bill into a law and what homeschoolers can- and must- do at each step of the way.

Music selection: Just a Bill- Jack Sheldon

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Two roads diverged in a wood

And I took the one less traveled by

And that has made all the difference. ~Robert Frost

Public school statistics: Violence, bullying, drugs from U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Science

Are homeschoolers part of the problem rather than the solution?

Are homeschoolers sheltering their children from the world?

What about socialization?

What about education? 

Next show: Why unschooling makes rational sense from an education perspective. 

Music selection: Peace of Mind- Boston / First of Me- Hoobastank

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My heartfelt gratitude for the Rethinking Education Conference and my conversations with Dayna Martin which were pivotal in my understanding and working through of my own judgment. 

What you’ll find in this episode:

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What you’ll find in this episode:

Sleep with Butterflies- Unschooling sleep

Exploring child-led sleep patterns

Frustration/anger surrounding bedtime- mythical vs. actual bedtime scenarios

Quiet minds, focused play

‘Adult’ time

Coping with grouchy days

Free kids are happy kids

Music selection: Sleeps With Butterflies- Tori Amos / Bubbly- Colbie Caillat

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What you’ll find in this episode:

Free-Range Children- Unschooling Food

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What you’ll find in this episode:

Finding the Real World- Coming to Unschooling the Parent Way

Come along as Sarah talks about how the Parent family chose unschooling and scrapped social/educational norms.

Music selection: No Such Thing- John Mayer

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What you’ll find in this episode:

A general discussion of the whats, whys, and hows of unschooling.

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