![]() | Strength doesn't need to be high-tech or glitzy. Plain, thoughtful underpinnings and principles can be enough to quietly strengthen a family for many long years. |
photo by Dylan Lewis
![]() | Strength doesn't need to be high-tech or glitzy. Plain, thoughtful underpinnings and principles can be enough to quietly strengthen a family for many long years. |
As my kids get older...I'm seeing more vividly the results of parenting choices, not just in them, but in their more conventionally parented peers, as well. Generosity begets generosity. —Caren Knox | ![]() |
Respect trivia. For school kids, "trivia" means "won't be on the test." In the absence of tests, where all of life is learning, there IS no "trivia." There is only information. |
![]() | Unschooling can make life better. Really, fully unschooling becomes more philosophical and spiritual than people expect it to. |
Parents who want unschooling to work should be positive, upbeat, hopeful, helpful. | ![]() |
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It can be a happy spiral upward, when feeling better about being a good mom makes one a better parent, and the child smiles and laughs, and the mom relaxes more. ✽ | ![]() |
Unschooling works well when parents are interesting, positive, thoughtful, considerate, generous, passionate, honest, respectful individuals. —Deb Lewis | ![]() |
![]() | Embrace your present moment instead of yearning for what you don't have. I love the saying 'the grass is always greener where you water it.' —Clare Kirkpatrick |
Living from principles, rather than fears, is the easiest way to grok unschooling, as far as I can tell. (But maybe it isn't easy, because it took me a long time to figure that out for myself, haha. I was all, 'what is all this rules vs. principles stuff anyway?' Now, in my unschooling, it seems like the most important part.) —Maya | ![]() |
![]() | "Why not" has helped me loose many constraints learned in childhood. —Ren Allen |
If you dwell in the empty half of your glass, life will feel empty. If you dwell in the full half of your glass, life will feel full. —Joyce Fetteroll |
"Parents stand between school and their kids, but also between their kids and the hurts of previous generations. If they can stop those hurts being passed on, who knows what their kids can do!" —Claire Horsley | ![]() |
Look back and smile. Think of happy moments and be glad you can remember. | ![]() |