Zeb: always running ahead for what he loves. Justin: We watched him watch this giraffe for a full 20 minutes. Me: They waited for me while I read every sign in the place. There are so many definitions to unschooling. You can find them everywhere and they all do a perfectly fine job of explaining [...]
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I Am Not Broken
I had a dream on Monday night that I was explaining to a physical therapist what was hurting by describing the one thing that was not hurting: my toes. I woke up from that dream with stiff, aching toes. I’ll be honest. I’ve been utterly failing at my attempts for body compassion. For the past [...]
Strewing Life at the Parthenon
One of the key efforts of an unschooling parent is something usually referred to as “strewing”: keeping interesting things “strewn” throughout your home that may be of interest to your child. It’s one of the ways often described to create a rich environment and it’s one of the habits I thought we might miss on [...]
Body Compassion
This is the post in which a very depressed state of being gets more deeply accepted and channeled into a place of compassion. I hope. Physically speaking, my body is not in a very good place. Scoliosis leads to lots of chronic conditions and major spinal fusions leave you very few corrective options. I’m recently [...]
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I’ve been having a blast with the coaching thus far. I love connecting with parents, hearing their stories and helping them to process their experiences. I love brainstorming over ideas and offering techniques. Sometimes we just need someone on the outside to tell us what we already know; sometimes to tell us what we can’t [...]
My name is Tara. I am a mama and a lover, a full-time nomad, a passionate devourer of Life and an Organic Life Coach.
