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Friday Family Updates — It’s Fall Y’all!

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Nathan M McTague, CPCC, CPDPE, CMNEC

Greetings Fam-fans! I’m just stopping by with the first installment in the new series I’m calling Friday Family Updates. There’s a fair number of readers here, I know — our parents, family, friends, and followers — who use this blog … Continue reading →

Your Kid as Johnny 5 *

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Nathan M McTague, CPCC, CPDPE, CMNEC

Originally posted on "A Beautiful Place of the World":
“Need input. Need input. Neeeed iinnnpuut!” Your child is an information and experience Hoover. She was born to devour data. He was created in just such a way as to be…

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Boredom Schmoredom (with Wood and Clay)

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Nathan M McTague, CPCC, CPDPE, CMNEC

Can you guess what these are? Of course not, right? Well, they’re the Fimo People that Xi and Echo created the other day with the help of some unemployed wooden blocks they’d picked up from the living room floor. They’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Boredom Schmoredom, Parenting Ideas | Tagged attachment parenting, boredom in children, building connection with children, children, creative projects involving children, cro-magnon parenting™, exploration, kim john payne, natural parenting, parenting, play, teaching, unschool, unschooling | Leave a comment

On the Road Again…

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Nathan M McTague, CPCC, CPDPE, CMNEC

As some of you, no doubt, already know from Natalie’s blog, the McTague family has launched itself on a good ole fashioned, classically Americana-styled, road trip vacation. Monday morning we set out across the wild-green, river-swollen wilderness of Montana and … Continue reading →

Posted in Beautifulness | Tagged children, family, gratitude, life, now, parenting, simple pleasures, unschooling | 1 Comment

Curiosity Never Killed a Cat (nor Undercut a Relationship)

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Nathan M McTague, CPCC, CPDPE, CMNEC

The other day I wrote a post about letting kids express their curosity, and drive to explore, and entertaining as many of their questions as humanly possible – whether they are asking if the moon is really made of cheese … Continue reading →

Posted in Parenting Ideas | Tagged attachment parenting, attachment parenting is good for babies brains, building connection with children, childhood development, children, children are naturally curious, empathy parenting, exploration, modeling, natural drives, natural parenting, parent-child bonding, parent-child relations, parenting, teaching, the Continuum Concept, unschool, unschooling | 4 Comments

Parentisms: Play is for Parents Too!

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Nathan M McTague, CPCC, CPDPE, CMNEC

Today’s post is just a simple reminder. Play is good for our kids developmentally, cognitively, physically, and emotionally. It helps them grow, and assists them in experimenting with and discovering the nature of reality. It is actually more of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Parentisms | Tagged attachment parenting, attahment parenting is good for babies brains, building connection with children, childhood development, children, cro-magnon education™, cro-magnon parenting™, exploration, family, kid world, natural parenting, parent-child bonding, parent-child relations, parenting, play, play is learning, simple pleasures, unschooling | 1 Comment

Plays Well with Others…

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Nathan M McTague, CPCC, CPDPE, CMNEC

I’m eventually going to write a book (or at least a chapter of one) taking apart, limb by limb, the current idea of “socialization” as defined by making our children spend all day with 30 other kids their age and … Continue reading →

Posted in Beautifulness | Tagged cro-magnon education™, cro-magnon parenting™, natural parenting, parenting, play, play group, socializing for kids, teaching kids about social living, unschool, unschooling, village life | 3 Comments

The Family that Schools at Home pt III

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Nathan M McTague, CPCC, CPDPE, CMNEC

Here is the final installment in the epic tale of how we handle education in our home. You’ll no doubt remember (or easily be able to jump back and find out using the following links) that in Part I and … Continue reading →

Posted in Parenting Ideas | Tagged attachment parenting, empowered nervous system, family, family-centered parenting, home, home education, homeschool, natural drives, natural parenting, unschool, unschooler, unschoolers, unschooling, unschooling family | 4 Comments

The Family that Schools at Home pt II

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Nathan M McTague, CPCC, CPDPE, CMNEC

As I’ve continued to think about how best to present what follows, I have had immense difficulty containing what really is a fairly encompassing look at how we live our entire family life. As I pointed out in the first … Continue reading →

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The Family that Schools at Home pt I

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Nathan M McTague, CPCC, CPDPE, CMNEC

So last week I mentioned that I would get back to this discussion on the kind of schooling we do in our home. We call it “unschool” because that is the philosophy that most broadly describes our version of educating … Continue reading →

Posted in Parenting Ideas | Tagged attachment parenting, cro-magnon education™, cro-magnon parenting™, education, family, home education, home educators, home-school, life, natural parenting, parent-child bonding, parenting, radical bonding, Sandra Dodd, unschool, unschooler, unschoolers, unschooling | 4 Comments

A Return to Cro-Magnon Education

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Nathan M McTague, CPCC, CPDPE, CMNEC

There’s been a lot of hubbub in the blogosphere and in news media, lately, about education. Primarily, the discussion has been aimed at how we ought to reinforce the public education system in efforts to bolster test scores, take back … Continue reading →

Posted in Parenting Ideas | Tagged cro-magnon education, cro-magnon parenting, democratic school, education reform, failure of public education, home-school, montessori, open letter to president obama on education, open schools, public education, student-led schools, unschool, unschooling | 12 Comments

Your Kid as Johnny 5

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Nathan M McTague, CPCC, CPDPE, CMNEC

“Need input. Need input. Neeeed iinnnpuut!” Your child is an information and experience Hoover. She was born to devour data. He was created in just such a way as to be driven to gorge himself on life. And all in order to … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: unschooling

Friday Family Updates — It’s Fall Y’all!

Your Kid as Johnny 5 *

Boredom Schmoredom (with Wood and Clay)

On the Road Again…

Curiosity Never Killed a Cat (nor Undercut a Relationship)

Parentisms: Play is for Parents Too!

The Family that Schools at Home pt III

The Family that Schools at Home pt II

The Family that Schools at Home pt I

A Return to Cro-Magnon Education

Your Kid as Johnny 5

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