| Something BIG happens when a person turns away from selfishness to service. Something HUGE happens when a person can care about another person more than about himself. |  |
| "Bring the world to your children and your children to the world." —Pam Sorooshian |  |
| When one of your thoughts leads to another, it's okay if you don't know why, or where it's going to end up. Fearlessly slide from one idea to another. |  |
 | "The unschooling environment I create at home is just a wonderful collection of the best examples I have from the past and the present." —Rippy Dusseldorp |
| Our days are full and our learning is unmeasured and immeasurable. |  |
 | "Intellectually, I got unschooling all the way from the very beginning. The part that took more time was relationships and wholeness. When I got THAT, that is when things started happening in the direction that made unschooling work great!" —Jenny Cyphers |
| There are very wealthy people who have no concept of abundance. There are very poor people who feel very rich indeed. —Lisa J Haugen |  |
| One of my guiding principles is that I want my children's worlds to be sparkly. There goes the dull and the darkness. Easily not chosen, not an option. |  |
 | "One of the biggest shifts in my unschooling journey has been changing my focus—staying in the present, letting go of the need to have things match my expectations (or those of the school world around me), relaxing my grip on What The Future Is Going To Bring. Letting go of the need to control the results is the path to living peacefully, because it keeps me oriented to The Process, to living mindfully in the present." —Leah Rose |
| "Lead by example. Be polite and confident, show trust and respect to those who deserve it and your kids will do the same." —Lyle Perry |  |
 | Giving children choices helps create a partnership, it helps them learn, it makes them bigger, wiser, more whole. Pulling them out or pushing them into things keeps them smaller and more powerless. |
When you choose to say something or to wait, think of which will be more patient, or less critical. If you decide to say something, think of two things and choose the one that is closer to the person you want to be. If you choose not to say anything, consider your posture and demeanor. Choose to be gentle, and not to express negative emotion.| Being pulled out of something sounds rough, and surprising, and a tad violent. Being invited to come home is much sweeter, and gives the child an option and some power. |  |
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 | Approach perfection, don't aim and fail. Be the best in the moment, but don't expect that to be "The BEST." |
 | "The big upside of unschooling, in my opinion, was that it also created an unexpected peacefulness, fulfillment, and happiness for all of us." —Jenny Cyphers |
| "It's funny how different the world can look, when you're not so restricted in your thoughts." —Kristen |  |
| Live the way you want your children to be. Be curious. Be thoughtful. Be patient. Be generous. |  |
 | Everything in moderation… no. Not everything. Not very many things at all. Bad things at the minimum, good things to the maximum, and hopefully not much at all sitting sadly in the in-between. —Colleen Prieto |
When you come to an intersection, how do you decide which way to go? It helps, before operating a motor vehicle with all its attendant expenses and inherent dangers, to know where you want
It's the same with unschooling. If that's where you're headed, there are some wrong ways you can avoid simply by being mindful of your intent. |
| "Radical Unschooling" is unschooling fully, from the roots, from the principles, extended into all of one's life and being. |  |
| Parents, in order to have their children trust them, should become trustworthy. |  |
| Radical unschooling (and the "radical" means "from the root") is all about mindset and changing beliefs and relationships for the better. Some people approach it from letting go of "academics" first, trying to see learning in everything. But if beliefs about learning and kids and partnership are changed first, then unschooling will proceed more smoothly. The real work is done in the heart and mind of the parent. —Robin Bentley |  |
| If an experience is new and different, children learn. |  |
| Spoons. Flush toilets. Roofs, walls, doors. Paper and lights. Colored markers. Love. Time. Thoughts. Ideas. |  |
| We never minded putting them in the bed after they were asleep. It was rare they went to sleep in the bed. They would wake up there (or in our bed, or on the couch or on a floor bed) knowing only that they had been put there and covered up by someone who loved them. |  |
| One of my main principles has been that it's my job to protect the peace of each of my children in his or her own home insofar as I can. I'm not just here to protect them from outsiders, axe-murderers and boogie-men of whatever real or imagined sort, but from each other as well. |  |
| "Thoughts and opinions that don't match reality should be rethought." —Joyce Fetteroll |  |
