We can express our needs and choose to gift our kids with extra attention, extra supplies, extra anything. Expressing our needs helps them understand when we’re going above and beyond so it doesn’t become an expectation.
Pam Laricchia, Living Joyfully
This is an excerpt from Laricchia’s very thought-provoking post, The Unschooling Family: Considering Everyone’s Needs. You might also want to check out its sister post, Unschooling and the Power Paradigm. For non-homeschooling/unschooling readers, don’t let the label keep you from taking a gander: both of these posts are essentially about respectful parenting. Agree with her point of view, disagree, or fall somewhere in between–I bet her take on power within the family will make you think. And thinking’s always good, right?
Photo (A jar of coffee-covered chocolate beans) from Wikipedia… combining the two elements that are essential to fulfilling my own most critical personal needs… 🙂
More like this: It’s not about balance: creating your own family’s harmony.
Why so serious today? Sorry. Want to laugh? How about this one: Mom? Have you noticed I’ve stopped…
And if you want to read more about unschooling, pop over to our new Undogmatic Unschoolers blog. It’s very new and so very thin, but that means you can read everything on it really, really quickly.
Nothing By The Book 
Thank you for sharing a few different blogs today and will be checking them out a bit later 🙂
I was in the mood for funny so I read your post on Flora and the bannister. Can I just say, you have one smart little girl. She assessed the staircase and made a calculated decision to stop sliding on it. Bravo to her! 🙂
She’s pretty brilliant, ain’t she. 🙂 Thank you.