Attachment Parenting Edmonton Society (APES) is a non-profit organization that supports parents on their journey towards peaceful and attached family relationships.

APES holds monthly discussion meetings, monthly playgroups, seasonal celebrations,
speakers and workshops. Everyone welcome! Please see our Upcoming Events page for specific dates and more information. You can also find us on facebook at Attachment Parenting of Edmonton Society and on yahoo groups at Attachment Parenting Edmonton.

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Homeschooling or curious about homeschooling?  The Attachment Parenting of Edmonton Society is excited to host author David Albert for a full-day event on Saturday November 5. David has written four books on homeschooling, Have Fun. Learn Stuff. Grow. Homeschooling And The Curriculum of Love, Homeschooling and the Voyage of Self-Discovery, And the Sylark Sings With Me: Adventures in Homeschooling and Community-Based Education and What Really Matters (with co-author Joyce Reed). He writes regular columns for two home education magazines, and his work has appeared in various magazines and journals worldwide. David was editor and publisher of John Taylor Gatto’s Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling. David is father to two daughters, both grown homeschooled children who are pursuing post-secondary degrees.

David will be speaking on a variety of homeschooling-related topics in what’s sure to be a day filled with new ways of understanding and appreciating our children.

Babies welcome!

Schedule:

8:30 – 9:00 Registration
9:00 – 10:30 Dismantling the School in Your Mind
10:45 – 12:00  Who is your child
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 Curriculum of Beauty
2:45 – 4:15  The Tenth Intelligence

Location: Providence Renewal Centre (3005, 119 st., Edmonton)

Registration for the day is $70 and includes four sessions as well as lunch.

Sessions:

Dismantling the Inner School

We all want the best possible education for our children. But sometimes the images of school we hold in our minds limit us from acting fully upon that which, deep down, we already know. We will explore some of these images together, and increase our self-confidence in helping our kids and our family pursue our dreams and aspirations.

Who is Your Child?

As homeschoolers, we are bombarded with curricula choices, information about learning styles, material about multiple intelligences. It’s enough to make our heads spin. Some of it might turn out to be useful, and much of it interesting. But wouldn’t it be better to start with some idea of what we believe to be the truth about children, and what we are hoping to equip them with for a future world to which we ourselves are ultimately denied entry? No pat answers, but lots of interesting questions which we can explore together.

The Curriculum of Beauty

Brown University President Ruth Simmons once wrote, “Nothing is so beautiful, nothing so moving, as the observance of a mind at work.” What if, amidst all the focus on how to ensure our children have the necessary basic skills, we were to conceive of homeschooling as an aesthetic matter, helping our children to find ways to embrace the beautiful in their world, in their relationships with others, and in themselves? How can we go about with our kids in cultivating an inner harmony that will lead them to a life worth living? And can we go along for the ride?

The Tenth Intelligence

Presentation description to be announced.