Category: Raising Conscious Children
Gardening – It’s Like Watching Water Boil, But More Exciting
| May 10, 2013 | Posted by Luschka under 3 - 4 years, By Age, Discovering Nature, Food, Home Education, Incidental Learning, Knowledge and Understanding of the World, Raising Conscious Children |
I’m so glad I decided to plant the sunflower seeds the same day as the tomato plants, because for days and days nothing happened. We opened the growing thingy each day to find nothing, except one random weed that popped it’s head out. I was beginning to think the Heinz Grow Your Own tomato plants…
Getting Into Gardening
| May 5, 2013 | Posted by Luschka under 1 - 2, 3 - 4 years, By Age, Discovering Nature, Home Education, Incidental Learning, Knowledge and Understanding of the World, Playful Parenting, Projects, Raising Conscious Children |
For the last two years, I have had the worst luck with my garden. What pregnancy didn’t take out of me, sickness and a newborn did, and then, to top it off it rained so much last year that even my mint died. Do you have any idea how hard it is to kill mint?…
Talking To Children About Death
| March 12, 2013 | Posted by Luschka under Carnival of Natural Parenting, Consistent Care, Misc, Raising Conscious Children |
Six months ago, my mother was diagnosed with Peritoneal Mesothelioma and told that without treatment she would have four weeks to live. Our visas were taking longer than that to be granted – my mother lives in Australia, I live in England, and the Australian government had no sympathy or compassion and made it as…
4 Lasting Ways To Celebrate Earth Day
| April 22, 2012 | Posted by Luschka under Current Events, Knowledge and Understanding of the World, Raising Conscious Children, Sponsored |
It’s Earth Day today, and while many people might not even realise it, millions of others around the world will be participating in Earth Day activities. In past years we’ve done things like black outs, where everyone is encouraged to turn off their lights for an hour in the evening, or meet at a local…
Autumn in England
| September 24, 2011 | Posted by Luschka under Discovering Nature, Home Education, Incidental Learning, Knowledge and Understanding of the World, Raising Conscious Children |
There are many things about life and living in the UK that it seems, even after eight years, that I will just never get on board with. There are things that make me realise painfully, that this is not home. (Home isn’t home any more either, but at least it’s familiar.) But there is something…
Becoming a mother has changed me in more ways than I knew possible. I am passionate today about things I’d never heard of two years ago. I also spend a lot more time around animals than I ever did before, since we’ve tried to get Ameli outdoors and into nature as much as possible.
Over the last two years I’ve started a ‘collection’ of sorts, of photographs I’ve taken of wild animals practicing ‘attachment parenting’. These are the best I have so far, but I intend to extend my collection whenever I have the opportunity.
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