We have in our possession, a Roku box, which will stream Netflix movies instantly to our movie screen.  I was on the Netflix website, adding a few documentaries I wanted to see when I came across Confessions of a Superhero.  We have a family love of Superheroes so there was no way we could turn [...]

I just watched the Radical Unschooling portion of Radical Parenting on Discovery Health. As expected, I’m slightly disappointed. I didn’t have high hopes for the program because going on television and trying to explain Radical Unschooling in 20 minutes is similar to learning Chinese in an hour. I hate the word impossible, [...]

The War on Kids is a documentary directed by Cevin Soling and presented by Spectacle Films.  It is a film that focuses on the injustices to children that are happening everyday in school.  It dives deep into the problems that exists concerning zero tolerance policies, security systems, the war on drugs, administrators and teachers, pharmaceuticals, [...]

My friend Janet posted this to Facebook today. Sand Dancer is a new documentary by Force Five Films out of New Zealand. I usually don’t write about movies or books until I see them but I thought I’d share this anyway and put it in my Inspiring People category. (Hopefully once I [...]

Inspiring. Thought provoking. Fan-friggin-tastic. That’s how I would describe the documentary Surfwise. A great film for unschoolers and other people interested in alternative lifestyles.
The Paskowitz family, considered to be the “first family of surfing” is comprised of 8 boys, 1 girl, and 2 parents. Dorian, the father, dropped out of [...]

This afternoon, we watched The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill. We perched ourselves on the couch and chairs and shared a big bowl of popcorn. Usually Milo loses interest pretty quickly and retreats to tower building or crashing. Skylar and I immediately became captivated by the birds and by Mark Bittner. I’m not really a [...]