Something HUGE happens when a person can care about another person more than about himself.
photo by Sandra Dodd
(Thanks to Marta Pires for saving that quote,
from a recent discussion.)
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"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. | ![]() |
Our days are full and our learning is unmeasured and immeasurable. | ![]() |
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. |
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. | ![]() |
Explore. Go with curiosity. | ![]() |
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. | ![]() |
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. | ![]() |
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. | ![]() |
"Thoughts and opinions that don't match reality should be rethought." —Joyce Fetteroll | ![]() |