Confidently build more confidence

Each time you think of something to help them with what they're doing, needing, learning, you become more confident. Each success builds confidence, and makes it easier to have future success.

from a discussion of "Who Can Unschool?"
photo by Sarah Dickinson

"Can you explain calm?"

Calm is calm. Not frantic, not excited, not frightened or frightening. Calm, like water that is neither frozen nor choppy. Calm is possessing the ability to think, to consider a situation without panic. Calm is not perpetually on the edge of flipping out.

That and some discussion of how to be calmer
photo by Heather Booth

Happiness is good for health

"Happiness is good for health! If something that makes a kid happy is deemed unhealthy by a parent, it will create stress and division. That kind of stress is NOT healthy. That kind of division works against the kind of relationship between parent and child that makes unschooling awesome!" —Jenny Cyphers

SandraDodd.com/eating/peace
photo by Sylvia Woodman

Happy, calm and loving

"Don't bring all the scary, negative and dark stories from the internet into your home. It will make your home and your lives scary, negative and dark. The most important thing you can do for your children's health is to provide them with a happy, calm and loving home." —Eva Witsel

SandraDodd.com/radiation
photo by Colleen Prieto

Semantics

The words people use will make or break their understanding.

SandraDodd.com/semantics
photo by Lisa Celedon

Growth is good

Principles are beliefs, touchstones, things a person bases decisions around. The idea that one can't make a choice without considering two or more options isn't a principle. It's a logical fact. The idea that choices can lead a person nearer to the way she wants to be might be the principle that growth is good and growth is possible.

SandraDodd.com/betterchoice
photo by Noor JontryMasterson

The world changes slowly

The world changes slowly, but it tends to stay changed! Flight was not possible before balloons. Food storage and transportation were difficult before canning and refrigeration. Without today’s wealth of books, videos and online information, home learning would be much more difficult. We can live in the light of our shared knowledge and ideas, in freedom and with confidence, at the cutting edge of education’s future.



SandraDodd.com/thoughts
photo by Sandra Dodd; a hot air balloon visible out our back gate