Sandra Dodd

-=- Forget about trying to change or educate anybody. Take
responsibility to do what you want to do. If you think the toilet is
dirty and you want to wash the toilet and it is the tenth time in a
row that you have washed the toilet and no one else washes it, so
what?! Take responsibility that you wash the toilet this time because
you want to. Then you experience the power and dignity from your
actions. If your attitude sucks, your life will never be fair! And
love will forever evade you.-=-

This was written by Clinton Callahan, an American living and working
in Germany since 1996. It's in an article about single mothers
creating a "mommy village," but it's not online.

He has one article online about parents and children being partners.
His two daughters were homeschooled (sounds pretty unschoolish) and
are both taking university classes in France now, studying to become
state-licensed riding instructors.. He and his wife recently
divorced. He trains trainers in Germany, and the program is based on
some of the kinds of things he's written about parents and children,
too, and whether he learned it from management training and applied
it to children or the other way, I don't know.

The article
PARENTS AND CHILDREN ARE NATURAL ENEMIES
ABOUT THE CONFLICT OF AUTHORITY AND THE POSSIBILITY OF GETTING
ON THE SAME TEAM WITH YOUR CHILDREN

is here:

http://www.callahan-academy.com/upload/Natural_Enemies_english.pdf

There was only about one sentence in that at which I balked a bit.
His writing is good. He's involved in possibilities and "wild
thinking" endeavors, and a lot of his thoughts are in directions
we've already gone.

The bio from the article he attached (from which the first quote was
taken:

About the author: Clinton Callahan is fifty-two years old and moved
with his wife Brindavan and their two horse-loving daughters from
America to Europe in 1995. The Callahan’s honeymoon was two-and-a-
half years of work and travel through the South Pacific and Asia. As
a result of their cultural expansion their children were born at home
in a family bed, and home-schooled their whole lives. Together
Clinton and Brindavan present Conscious Childraising, a weekend
seminar that gives families a new beginning, and Kingmaker,
empowering women in a patriarchy. For more information visit www.p-m-
n.de or call +49 (0)89-74949473, the Possibility Manager Network. Mr.
Callahan is a Possibility Management trainer and the author of
Abenteuer Denken, 52 Abenteuerreisen zu größeren Möglichkeiten,
published in 2004 by Genius Verlag, ISBN: 3-934719-16-3, available at
www.amazon.de or through your local bookstore.

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I get a fair amount of mail from people with similar interests who've
found my site, but this one was particularly interesting to me and it
seemed a good one to share.

Sandra