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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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They Have to Accommodate

By EM Posted on April 29, 2015 Posted in Parent Tagged with boundaries, positive discipline
They Have to Accommodate

Kids’ needs and wishes matter. Their creativity, their malleability, their resilience, their openness — those aspects of their character matter, a lot.

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I Don’t Go in for Hierarchy

By EM Posted on June 29, 2012 Posted in God and the Tao Tagged with boundaries, debunking, hierarchy, power over, things I know to be true
I Don’t Go in for Hierarchy

I’ve been reading the first few chapters of Touching Heaven the last few days, and there’s something in it that sticks in my craw. In a word, it’s hierarchy. The book is about Orthodox Christianity, written by John Oliver (not …

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Self-assertion Started It

By EM Posted on June 29, 2012 Posted in God and the Tao Tagged with boundaries, misogyny, mythology, power over
Self-assertion Started It

On page 11, the Oxford summarized the book of Genesis this way: “Genesis … contains two major parts: the primeval history … which tells how human self-assertion brought the world to the brink of destruction; and the history of Israel’s ancestors.”

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