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Jan Hunt, B.A. Psychology (Magna cum Laude), M.Sc. Counseling Psychology, is the Director of the
Natural Child Project, an attachment parenting/unschooling counselor, and a member of the Board of
Directors of the CSPCC (Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children). She is also a member
of the advisory boards of Holistic Moms Network, Child-Friendly Initiative, and Attachment Parenting
International.
Jan is the author of The Natural Child: Parenting From the Heart
and the
bilingual children's picture book
A Gift for Baby, and co-edited
The Unschooling Unmanual with her always-unschooled son, Jason. Many of her
articles are available online at naturalchild.org.
Jan envisions "a world in which all children are treated with dignity, respect, understanding, and
compassion." She lives in British Columbia, and is available for
counseling
worldwide.
- Published works
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A Gift for Baby (The Natural Child Project, 2009)
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The Unschooling Unmanual (The Natural Child Project, 2008)
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The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart (New Society, December 2001)
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"Ten Reasons Not to Hit Your Kids", Appendix D in Alice Miller's
Breaking Down the Wall
of Silence, (New York: Dutton, 1991).
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Newspaper column: The Natural Child: Parenting and Education that Respects Children,
1989-1998.
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"Nurturing Children's Natural Love of Learning", Foreword to
Homeschooling in Oregon,
Ann Lahrson, Portland: Out of the Box Publishing, 1994.
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"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
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