Jan Hunt

Jan Hunt, M.Sc. Counseling Psychology, is the Director of the Natural Child Project (www.naturalchild.org), a member of the Board of Directors for the Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and a member of the Advisory Board for Holistic Moms Network and Attachment Parenting Intl. Her son Jason unschooled from the beginning with a learner-directed approach.

Jan is available for parenting and unschooling telephone counseling worldwide. For information visit http://www.naturalchild.org/counseling/.

PUBLISHED WORKS

The Unschooling Unmanual (The Natural Child Project, 2009)

A Gift for Baby (The Natural Child Project, 2005)

The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart (New Society, December 2001)

"Ten Reasons Not to Hit Your Kids", Appendix D in Alice Miller's Breaking Down the Wall of Silence, (New York: Dutton, 1991).

Newspaper column: The Natural Child: Parenting and Education that Respects Children, 1989-1998.

"Ten Reasons to Respond to a Crying Child", Empathic Parenting, Journal of the CSPCC, Summer 1996, pp. 7-8.

PROFESSIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS

"I consider Jan Hunt's writing as exceptionally clear, based on facts, and coming out of her own experience. Parents rarely find in the press the essential, precious information her work could give them. I very much hope that her strong voice will become more and more known in the world through her lucid, well-informed writing." - Dr. Alice Miller, author of Breaking Down the Wall of Silence and Thou Shalt Not Be Aware

"Jan Hunt is a most diligent, energetic, and well-informed person with regard to children's issues. She is one of the few people who understands and can write about the real needs of children as opposed to the rationalized needs of parents in relation to their children. Moreover, she can do this in an engaging fashion that does not put parents off. For the sake of children everywhere, I hope that her Internet columns are widely read and taken to heart." - Dr. Elliott Barker, Director, Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

"Jan's writing is insightful, carefully thought out, wonderfully readable, and very useful. I wish for her writing to have as large an audience as possible. Adults all over the world need to hear the ideas she expresses so well." - Rick Lahrson, Executive Director, The Kids' Project