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It's interesting that someone who objected to the use of "mindful" and who
says "I have issues with certain words/phrases... they set off an internal
alarm inside of me... like the words/phrases 'how to behave' 'instill'
and some others that I can't think of off the top of my head right now."
is arguing so strenuously that the term "unparenting" isn't a problem.

One of the best things I've seen about unschooling is the positive effect on
the parents. I've seen moms and dads cry real tears because they are giving
their children the kind of parenting they could only (maybe) dream of when
they were little. It's a method of re-parenting that lots of psychologists
charge money to help people accomplish, and we can do it free, as attachment
parents. Attachment parenting (which is where a lot of the ideas about being
WITH kids instead of in opposition to them originated) is MOST definitely
parenting of the highest order.

It's not unparenting.

Unparenting (as Joyce's many references showed) does not have a good
connotation.

Sandra