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Committed to finding ways out of the coercion/self-sacrifice mire of conventional parenting. We are variously critical rationalists, libertarians, home educators, attachment-parents, but we take our ideas where we find them.

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Rational Parenting: the website: more about how to grow consentual family dynamics


Editor:
Alice Bachini

Contributors:
Camille Bauer
Emma

Websites with useful ideas:

• Taking Children Seriously: non-coercive educational philosophy
  
• Attachment Parenting International: humane babycare approaches
  
• Education Otherwise: the biggest UK home ed organisation
  
• Freedom in Education: independent home ed site
  
• Unschooling.com: debunking traditional education methods
  

• Brian's Education Blog: a libertarian criticises educational institutions
  
• Michael Peach: the home-educating house dad
  
• HomeSchool & Other Edu Stuff
  
• The Homeschooling Revolution
  
• O'DonnellWeb libertarian homeschooling
  
• Education Weak school and alternatives
  
• Our Horrible Children(zero tolerance idiocy)
  
• Giants and Dwarfs education, culture
  
• Diogenes (chronicles of a first-year teacher)
  
• Joanne Jacobs criticising the system
  
• Critical Mass ditto
  
• The Cranky Professor yes he is
  
• The Confidence Man edu-news and views
  
• Curiosity A TCS advocate philosophises
  

• 2Blowhards arty-farty superbrains
  
• Brian's Culture Blog
  
• Sasha Castel rock, opera, the rest
  
• AC Douglas.com modernist art, etc
  
• Out of Lascaux art history
  
• Bookslut
  
• Philosoblog
  
• Modern Art Notes
  
• Silliman poetry
  
• Mike Snider poetry
  
• Greg.org moviemaking
  
• The Velvet Crypt horror and sci-fi
  

• Samizdata.net: libertarian blog with regular comments on children's issues
  
• InstaPundit The Man Himself
  
• Andrew Sullivan The Man Himself
  
• Biased BBC against UK TV "objectivity"
  
• Airstrip One UK foreign policy
  
• Brendan O'Neill left-wing commentary
  
• Freedom and Whisky Scottish libertarianism
  
• The Edge of England's Sword UK and US politics
  
• Little Green Footballs Arab/Israeli affairs
  
• Natalie Solent clever woman
  
• OxBlog clever students
  
• The Liberty Log clever Scottish students
  
• Rachel Lucas capitalist gun-toting(BR)
• Salam Pax life in Baghdad
  
• IMFO: Camille chats about everything
  
• Alice Bachini: solving the problems of the universe