Children grow up in spite of their parents, and they only really need a few basic tools to realise their potential. Many of us parents experience concern over our parenting 'skills' and anxiety over whether or not we get it right. We often under-estimate our children’s abilities, and end up over parenting them. In … [Read more...] about Effective Parenting in a Nutshell
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Reason: Your only guide to knowledge
Reason is the faculty that identifies and integrates the information provided by our senses to give us knowledge of reality. It is the means to accurately perceive and therefore operate within the world around us. Sanity is universally regarded as ‘being in touch with reality’, and rational (or reasonable) behaviour is … [Read more...] about Reason: Your only guide to knowledge
Optimal Health Strategy 2 : Eat Real Food
The link between diet and health is proven. What we eat is the most powerful factor in determining our health outcomes. But what should we eat? The first principle of eating to support health rather than to undermine it is to eat real food. But what is real food? Read on to find out. There are essential healthy fats … [Read more...] about Optimal Health Strategy 2 : Eat Real Food
Meaningful Environmental Awareness
To most people, environmental awareness is all about global warming, or climate change, as it is now known. But there is a completely different way to look at environmentalism that makes perfect sense and contains none of the contradictions found in the mainstream narrative. There is an approach that priortises human … [Read more...] about Meaningful Environmental Awareness
Optimal Health Strategy 1 : Maintain a healthy gut
The maintenance of a healthy gut is the best health insurance you can have. Gut health is foundational to human health because of the many essential function it performs, but also because if we look after our gut we necessarily do all the things that will achieve health in a broader sense. This is why it is step 1 of … [Read more...] about Optimal Health Strategy 1 : Maintain a healthy gut
Health is a choice within our control
Assuming you have been born with a functioning body and it has not been compromised by injury or accident, it's continued health and vitality is a matter of choice. The maintenance of health requires several inter-relating factors and associated practices that are all important. They must all be in place for the … [Read more...] about Health is a choice within our control
Reasons to own land
Land ownership can be a lifestyle choice in its broadest sense - a way of life. It is one well suited to a growing number of people who wish to take control of their lives by creating more security, broadening their options and delighting in a renewed sense of connection to the earth. I am convinced that if more people … [Read more...] about Reasons to own land
Home education – part 3
If you want to check out parts 1 and 2 of this series go here... Part 1, Part 2 In this final part of a series of three, we take a look at the skills young people do not leave school with. These can be addressed more consistently and comprehensively when parent consider a home education. What is left untaught? … [Read more...] about Home education – part 3
Home education – part 2
If you have not checked out part 1 you may want to do so before continuing here. Follow this link for part 1 So why would anyone consider home education over and above the convenience of conventional modern schooling? Everybody goes to school, don't they? Why would parents want to keep their children at … [Read more...] about Home education – part 2
Home education- Part 1
What is education and what is it for? For young children it is an ongoing process by which they learn how to live their life – they need to develop their mind and equip themselves to deal with reality. They must learn to think, to understand, to integrate, and to prove. They need to discover the essentials of the … [Read more...] about Home education- Part 1