PARENTING FREEDOM

attachment parenting, homeschooling, gentle discipline
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    Monday, May 21st, 2012 9:16 pm

    “The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.” Thucydides

    “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” Epictetus

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    "It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy,
    and unrestrained by parental tyranny."
    Abraham Lincoln
  • Schooling in the News

    The climate of fear that has poisoned our schools: Ousted teacher exposes the tyranny of liberalism that has betrayed a generation of children
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1336016/Ousted-teacher-exposes-liberal-tyranny-betrayed-children.html#ixzz1826bYrs7

    “Because my experiences in teaching have taught me that it is not lack of money or prejudice that keep my children poor, although clearly money is useful and prejudice is to be found everywhere…”

    “The regular dumbing-down of our examination system is obvious to any teacher who is paying attention and who has been in the game for some time…”

    “I threw off the weight of the Leftist ideology that had weighed me down for so long and shouted: ‘Free at last! Free at last!’…”

    Travesty of our ‘stagnating’ schools: In a damning indictment of Labour, OECD condemns British education which is now inferior to Estonia’s
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1336410/OECD-condemns-British-education-inferior-Estonias.html#ixzz182BsMpqX

    “Despite doubled spending since 2000, the education of teenagers has ‘stagnated at best’.”

    “A fifth of 15-year-old Britons are ‘functionally illiterate.’”

    Top Test Scores From Shanghai Stun Educators
    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/education/07education.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

    Good Grades in High School Lead to Better Health, Study Suggests
    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101207112448.htm

    “Higher academic performance in high school plays a critical role in better health throughout life…. ‘We already know it matters for things like your work and your earnings, but this proves it also matters for your health.’”

    Middle-class schoolboy, 12, hangs himself after ‘taunts he spoke too politely’
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1337107/Boy-12-hangs-bullied-talking-politely.html#ixzz182GNPSiF

    “He never would have done it if he wasn’t being bullied at school.”

    If your child is bullied at school, get him out.

    Teacher Suffers Miscarriage Breaking Up Classroom Brawl
    http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/Teacher–111665299.html

    The 12 Days of Winter – The Heidi Harris Show on News Talk 720 KDWN/Las Vegas, NV

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    Welcome to PARENTING FREEDOM.com, a unique website with information based on research, experience, intuition, and Christianity. "O teach me, Lord, that I may teach the precious things Thou dost impart; And wing my words, that they may reach the hidden depths of many a heart." I encourage you to read my parenting essays linked in the left sidebar. Each topic has Scripture verses and quotes that are particularly moving. Thanks for visiting my website, and come back soon!

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