Boundless School Blog

Dear Friends and Parents: I received a note from a mother whose family hopped in their car and headed for the hills of cottage country when Covid first drove them inside. It's gone well for mom, dad and teenage son.  Nature, by its nature, has provided plenty of...

Dear Friends and Parents: One of my pals just texted me a video of an affable British math teacher going all gaga about the number 6174. I first thought it was the U.K. head count for how many isolating family members have strangled each other. Nope. There really...

Hi Steve, I am isolated with one teen boy -16yrs - just me and him, which is a bit of a challenge. I do not think it is a good thing that my son games all night (4am) and sleeps to 2pm every day. He won't listen to me and won't get off at 1 am, 2 am, 4 am when I am...

Dear Boundless Families: Whilst dining the other night with my nuclear family, feeling unusually safe from any imminent threats of patricide, the conversation turned towards the absurd. My middle child (it's always the median that ultimately sinks to the bottom)...

Dear Boundless Families: I was up at the boarding school the past few days, taking it all in. It looked like the set of a Hansel and Gretel fairy tale. Deep and fluffy snow draped our 600 acres in a cozy purity that is an ideal metaphor for your kids' frame of...

Dear Boundless Families: Eager to reacquaint myself with the zeitgeist of each tribe, I have been snooping around the kids, trying to be a fly on the wall. This has proved rather impossible, as I have a reputation for being the crazy old guy. Kids sniff me out life...

Dear Boundless Families: The end of the beginning is nigh, and this place's striking beauty has a hypnotic effect on your kids. Which is not to say they aren't loud. Decibel levels increase hourly. Sometimes I feel like the crusty grandpa bellowing, "dang those...

Dear Boundless Families: I learned the Toronto buses left at 8:07 this morning. That's a record. A harbinger of a wonderful session? We shall see. It's been off to a great start. I bet you think I say that to all the gals. I'm not like that. You'll see. It's early...

Dear Boundless Families: Two days ago, I rendezvoused with the OE gang at the head of a 1.5 km portage that was preceded by a 10km head-winded exhausting paddle. The kids were spent and the trek into the Boreal forest had not yet begun. Morale was low. Every group...

Dear Boundless Families: It's been windy. Those deer flies haven't stood a chance. Yet another ingredient in this rather paradisiacal session. Okay, maybe I embellish. Having 60 teenagers in any one place is, by definition, is a paradise lost. I am mostly alone...