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November 2012
October 2012
September 2012
August 2012
July 2012
June 2012
- Why Madagascar 3 and other lovely cartoons are actually bad for your kid
- Can your child go against the social norm?
- The result of the 30-days-without-yelling-at-my daughter challenge
May 2012
- Good bye Costa Rica, Hello Brazil
- What if your kid hits?
- The ¨30 days without yelling at my child¨ challenge
- Summerhill School – Quotes from A.S. Neill on his living free school
April 2012
- Volcano trip with a 4-year old in Costa Rica: couchsurfing, hiking and long bus rides
- Making kids say stuff like¨ thank you¨ and ¨please¨ sucks
March 2012
- The worst first appointment at the dentist for a 4-year old
- How to stop yelling at your kid (or at least some ideas that I´m using)
- The fear of parenting
February 2012
- 2 single moms sharing a house – a living experiment
- ¨You are stupid!¨ (How I deal with my kid saying it)
- A traveling anecdote (Life is good)
January 2012
- Travel with children in Costa Rica - is it safe?
- How to surf while traveling alone with a 4-year old
- I confess: I get scared shitless of traveling alone with my kid every single time
December 2011
- Your Competent Child – Book Review-Suggestion + My wish for change
- A unconventional Christmas approach
- 13 tips for easier travel with small children
- The best guide to traveling with kids
November 2011
- How I´m raising a multilingual child
- Less stuff, more life
- My girl´s kindergarten in Costa Rica
- Another trip to Panama (or 90 more days in Costa Rica)
- Traveling solo for the first time in 4,5 years
October 2011
- The moment I decided to live abroad for one year, just me and my child
- Interview with visionary mom Lisa Work
- Inside a Waldorf Meeting (and the key to influence children)
- Are moms afraid or just careful?
September 2011
- One year blogging, and why I keep doing it
- Our daily bike ride to school in Costa Rica (pics)
- Robbed on the border of Nicaragua and Costa Rica
- One Couple's Approach to Keeping Their Child Safe Online - Guest Post by Holly Miller
August 2011
- Interview with Wendy - single mom of 4, traveling, working, being organic, car free and much more
- Single mom surfing in Nicaragua PART 2 – the surf, making friends, being the only guest with a child and watching other moms
- Single mom surfing in Nicaragua PART 1 – who took care of my child
- My 7 links
- Making The World A Better Place, Tiny Bits or Big Pieces at a Time
July 2011
- 5 steps I´m using to make my child stop interrupting my conversations
- How slack can a parent´s limits be?
- On surfing, kissing and the fear of traveling alone with a child
- A mom about to travel the world for free with her child
June 2011
- Breastfeeding in Public: The Irish Edition (Guest Post)
- Interview with Lainie and Miro, single mom and son volunteering and world traveling for 8 years
- Breastfeeding in Public (or How to Become Socially Unacceptable)
- How do you manage to be offline around a child?
- Stopping my own aggressive behavior towards my child
- The essential items on a 4-year old packing list
May 2011
- How to stop our children from being avid consumers
- Simple ways for moms to help and get helped
- My 4-year old new languages learning follow up
- A weekend in Panama alone with my 4-year old
- Vote for me, please!
- The right to be naked
April 2011
- What´s like to travel with a 3-year old girl
- My famous 3-year old is turning 4! Happy Birthday Luísa!
- 5 ways to asking for help more often and stop feeling ¨mom-guilt¨
- What a lovelly bike-life we have in Costa Rica (lots of pics)
- Newspapers are so X-rated for children (be careful when recycling them)
- Interview with Ethan – a single dad traveling with his 2-year old son
March 2011
- Screen-free child for almost 2 months!
- Interview with Jan Hunt on the future of unschooling
- Alone with a young child, and I party every day
- How to help your child´s interest in reading
- Our school can be awesome, but unschooling is still the next step
- 10 advantages of traveling alone with a young child
- The disadvantages of traveling alone with a young child
- Children don´t need to behave
- When schooling is good, it can be really awesome
February 2011
- Don´t follow your instincts
- Interview with Janet Lansbury on RIE approach
- A single mom and child packing list for an extended trip
- How to cross from Costa Rica to Panama by land in less than SEVEN HOURS
- My eternal Valentine - in memory of my mom
- Let´s make the educational change we need to see in the world!
- I´m brave indeed but scared to hell too
- To unschool or to not unschool?
January 2011
- About our unconventional family
- Preventing our children from having prejudices
- Our first week in Costa Rica (or Making dreams come true)
- How to deal with unsolicited advice (including this one)
- Pink stinks, but what can parents do against it?
- Use your child to get fit
- How to make friends from all over the planet without leaving your couch
- Nothing here is yours
- How I´m preparing my child for a long trip
December 2010
- A Poop Story (or How Things Are Different At Home)
- Do you ever ask for help?
- When was your last mom´s night out?
- Why on Earth we are going to Costa Rica
- How I´m teaching my 3-year old a second language
- Interview with Tara Wagner on Mindful Parenting and Unschooling
- Are you giving the proper stimuli to your child?
- Can mothers have a life of their own?
November 2010
- Confessions of a permissive mother
- What I got from teaching another language at my daughter´s school
- The yellow and white diet
- Going car-free with a kid – easier done than said
- Getting over single-mom´s syndrome
- 3 years breastfeeding – why I decided on long-term
- A mother letting off steam
- The intricacies of single mothering and dating
- Traveling with a child? Don´t worry, be happy...
- What nobody tells you about being a stay at home mom
October 2010
- How to help your child feel gratitude
- For how long can you bear your child´s cry?
- 5 reasons of why being a single mom rocks
- Why I quit my job and skipped town when I found out I was pregnant
- How do you monitor your children´s TV?
- "Travelearning" with your children
- 7 survival tips for single moms
- Co-sleeping - are you a sinner too?
September 2010
- Why being consistent with discipline is so hard
- Reconsider your values for your child´s sake
- How to help your child be unique
- The secret to keep a positive mindset at crazy times (or How to be alone with a kid and keep your sanity)
- Can your little girl escape from the pink world?
- Our anger masks the discipline we try to teach
- Is your kid not learning anything?
- When the police kept us for one and a half hours for carrying an apple
- Why the school system is dangerous
