Comments for Parenting Off The Grid http://parentingoffthegrid.com The culture, politics, and policy of conscious parenting Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:56:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Mandatory Schooling for Parents Who Don’t Like the Word “Mandatory” by mamakaruna http://parentingoffthegrid.com/2010/12/10/mandatory-schooling-for-parents-who-don%e2%80%99t-like-the-word-%e2%80%9cmandatory%e2%80%9d/#comment-277 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:56:50 +0000 http://parentingoffthegrid.com/?p=282#comment-277 As a public school teacher let me say, if I could do it over again, I would unschool my children and encourage others to do the same. Nothing about public schooling is what is best for kids. Brain based research and observation both support the conclusion that kids learn best when they do a variety of things, including following adults around as opposed to being kept in separate surroundings for nearly 2 decades then encouraged to ‘join’ the adult world. Do the best you can where you are with what you’ve got. But don’t assume the established, accepted model is in any way better for your children.

]]> Comment on Mandatory Schooling for Parents Who Don’t Like the Word “Mandatory” by The Extreme Life of an Evolutionary Entrepreneur « Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Truth http://parentingoffthegrid.com/2010/12/10/mandatory-schooling-for-parents-who-don%e2%80%99t-like-the-word-%e2%80%9cmandatory%e2%80%9d/#comment-196 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 19:27:14 +0000 http://parentingoffthegrid.com/?p=282#comment-196 [...] have Spring Break until the following week, right?”  Um no.  CRAP! And, you may recall I’m under a truancy order not to take the kids out of school anymore, so I had to scramble for a solution.  Solution was: Approval to take 2nd grader out, but 5th [...]

]]> Comment on OMG! What Is That Smell?! by Ruth Wentzel http://parentingoffthegrid.com/2011/02/14/omg-what-is-that-smell/#comment-181 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:47:37 +0000 http://parentingoffthegrid.com/?p=350#comment-181 I completely agree, except there came a time when the smell from our sons’s shoes were more than any of us could bear. The shoes often stayed outside for the night, to improve the air quality in the house. It came and went with puberty, thank goodness! Still, I preferred that to the awful smell of deodorant!

]]> Comment on OMG! What Is That Smell?! by Tweets that mention OMG! What Is That Smell?! « Parenting Off The Grid -- Topsy.com http://parentingoffthegrid.com/2011/02/14/omg-what-is-that-smell/#comment-180 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:37:30 +0000 http://parentingoffthegrid.com/?p=350#comment-180 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Martha Hartney, Martha Hartney. Martha Hartney said: Something rotten in the state of preadolescence? I had fun with this stinky post–http://bit.ly/h9UlRr [...]

]]> Comment on Co-Parenting Is Not For The Faint At Heart* by Martha James Hartney http://parentingoffthegrid.com/2011/01/05/co-parenting-is-not-for-the-faint-at-heart/#comment-178 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:23:21 +0000 http://parentingoffthegrid.com/?p=302#comment-178 Thank you Carrie! That was a great piece. I’d love to repost on my FB. I’ll see if I can find you there.

]]> Comment on Co-Parenting Is Not For The Faint At Heart* by Carrie Dahle http://parentingoffthegrid.com/2011/01/05/co-parenting-is-not-for-the-faint-at-heart/#comment-175 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 04:16:08 +0000 http://parentingoffthegrid.com/?p=302#comment-175 Co-parenting is great is you can make it work. However, more often than not, exe’s cannot co-parent well together. That does not mean that one day they won’t be able to but right now it may not work.

My story is complicated and long, but ultimately both my husband and I have had to learn how to deal with extremely difficult exes and co-parenting has not been an option. However we found something else that works for us, and just recently I discovered a term for it. It is called parallel parenting.

If you want to know more about my story and how parallel parenting has saved me, you can read about it at http://daytodaywoman.com/2011/02/09/parallel-parenting-the-phrase-that-saved-me/

]]> Comment on To Spank or Not to Spank? by Anonymous http://parentingoffthegrid.com/2010/07/07/to-spank-or-not-to-spank/#comment-174 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 04:03:14 +0000 http://parentingoffthegrid.com/?p=242#comment-174 I liked the comment about getting “kicked in the throat during a temper tantrum”. I’m so glad that the child didn’t get hurt.

]]> Comment on To Spank or Not to Spank? by Anonymous http://parentingoffthegrid.com/2010/07/07/to-spank-or-not-to-spank/#comment-173 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 04:01:48 +0000 http://parentingoffthegrid.com/?p=242#comment-173 Please people! Discipline your child so the world doesn’t have to.

]]> Comment on Formal Education–The Big Lie (Part 2) by theteachingwhore http://parentingoffthegrid.com/2011/01/14/formal-education-the-big-lie-part-2/#comment-169 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:37:35 +0000 http://parentingoffthegrid.com/?p=338#comment-169 I’ve got an explanation for it on my blog!

]]> Comment on Formal Education–The Big Lie (Part 2) by Chuck Rylant http://parentingoffthegrid.com/2011/01/14/formal-education-the-big-lie-part-2/#comment-168 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 06:34:03 +0000 http://parentingoffthegrid.com/?p=338#comment-168 I’ve just got to ask, where does the name “theteachingwhore” come from. Certainly a conversation starter :)

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