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When Your Partner Has Different Parenting Practices
I thought I would share a few things that I am learning, living, and growing through while parenting with a partner that does not fully align with your parenting philosophy. Around August, we decided – well, I decided and pressured him – to unschool for the 2020/2021 school year, which starts with a period of deschooling. The words unschooling and deschooling are SCARY for most people, so let me give you a couple of definitions from Akilah S. Richards, author of Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work. People typically think unschooling is letting your kids do what they want and not parenting appropriately. Akilah, ‘cause she’s my…
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Losing Control
As I continue on this journey towards sustained optimal well-being and joy, one of the things that have continuously come up as a pothole on the road is the issue of control. In fact having control, using control, being controlled, became so much of an issue that it caused me to take my first mothering sabbatical, a story for another day. At the time I felt like going mad. Seriously. There were questions all the time. She asked for a snack. And then asked for another snack. When she wanted to change the movie, she asked if she could watch a different movie. Then ten minutes later, I didn’t…