Positive discipline wins & fails, plus adventures in unschooling

I discovered positive discipline when I was leaving the country for the first time to spend a year being a nanny in France with no prior childcare experience.

Now I've got two of my own and I can say that parenting is sort of like chess, sort of like a midlife crisis, sort of like art. It's hard and not hard, fulfilling and lonely, full of love and confusing as hell. When in doubt, I go searching for stories. Here, I offer my own.