Home School / Hackschool / Un-school – All cool

Listening to this young lad, Logan LaPlante, talk so fluently and eloquently on the topic of education makes me flush with pride over our own decision to choose home schooling.

Deviants and Outsiders

I do not consider myself to be a depressive personality, but I know that I share a lot of traits of that mind-set; solitary, analytical, verbose, obsessive, neurotic and anti-social. There are elements that will ring true here for everyone but I find that within these descriptors there is a core representation that I seem to have pinned myself to.

An ideal education

There are so many aspects to being a parent that seem to be impervious to advice. It doesnt matter how relavent or astute the experience, in the end every child is so perfectly individual that the only process that can be adhered to is be truthful.

Family

It’s not the years, it’s the mileage

I can’t help notice that my beard is becoming whiter. It is taking on the gravitas of a Russian navy commander, an evil wizard or … an old man.

Day of Fathers

My son is Taliesin Mithrandir Thorgrim Fee of House Papillon, first of that name; son of Curtis Leon Fee, son …

Coffee Homeground

I recently quit sugar, down from three sugars to nothing. All of a sudden my favourite beverage became hollow and …

Parenting from a bean perspective

In our family we subscribe to a number of philosophies that have sprung from intuition and could loosely be labeled as ‘attachment parenting’ but I though it would be of benefit for me to try and pin this further.

Set the Way-Back Machine to 1981…

Set the way-back machine to 1981…I am writing my composition…

Solstice

The Midsummer’s Night, the Solstice, will be here on the 21st of June at 05:45 this year. It is tempting …

Han Solo or C3PO?

The basic question asks whether you would rather be Han Solo or C3PO, when concerned with the world of business. …

Howdoyoudoos and “kweempiwb ip weew”

I thought it would be nice to make some introductions. Not just from me saying “howdoyoudoooo” but to connect anyone …