![]() | "I began to question so much of what I believed. I began to say yes, try to make the better choice, loosen up control. And not only did nothing I had feared come to pass, wonderful things began to happen." —Anna, in Melbourne |
photo by Sandra Dodd
![]() | "I began to question so much of what I believed. I began to say yes, try to make the better choice, loosen up control. And not only did nothing I had feared come to pass, wonderful things began to happen." —Anna, in Melbourne |
"It" could be
- home
- life
- your nest
- your children's day
- yourself
![]() | "This journey is helping me become the woman I have always wanted to be. Unschooling is not just about parenting—it truly spills over into all areas of life." —Megan Valnes |
"Where joy is, you will find learning. Where joy is, you will find flow." —Clare Kirkpatrick | ![]() |
Words and thoughts and emotion are all entangled. Untangle. | ![]() |
![]() | Old and new technology and art are everywhere if you look, and remember that not all learning needs to be important or recorded or reported. |
![]() | Look at the world with child-like wonder. Your child looks at the world with wonder. Protect, nourish, and regain the ability to join in. |
There might be something near you that's interesting, pretty, different, unusual, that's worth a little visit. Don't wait to be tourists in distant lands to have a look around! | ![]() |
Learn to really be with a child. They will be better able to be each others' friends and playmates if they each feel really strong in their relationship with the parent. |
![]() | If you learn to see everything instead of just school things, unschooling will start working for you. |
Learning can be easy and fun and perpetual. | ![]() |
The fewer things you say or do to make things worse, the better things will be. | ![]() |
Ideas are based on other ideas, quite often. Songs might remind you of other songs. Art sometimes references other art. In this photo there is an inside and an outside, things in front, things behind, Queen's Diamond Jubilee flags (so a time stamp) and a little tree. Whether life is quietly calm or frantically busy, try to be gracefully and gratefully present. | ![]() |
![]() | "How do you know they're learning?" The people who ask that question are looking at the world through school-colored glasses. Those same parents knew when their children could use a spoon. They knew when the child could drink out of a cup. They knew when walking and talking and bike riding had been learned. |
![]() | Find the funny, fun parts of life. |
![]() | There are WONDROUS things people can do with current technology, and it's likely to get better and better, isn't it? Don't separate your children from the future, from progress, and from understanding and using things just because the parents don't understand them or use them as well as they might. Don't hobble your child out of fear or superstition or trying to impress people you don't even know who want to scare and shame you. Be your child's partner. Lift him up and let him see. |
![]() | Realize your unschooling life and someone else’s unschooling life won’t look exactly just the same, and that’s because your kids and their kids, your partner and their partner, your house and their house, your interests and their interests… they’re not the same either. But still read, talk, and think about what you are doing, and listen to what others are doing. Learn from the example of people who have been there/done that, and be an example for those who will come after you on the unschooling path. —Colleen Prieto |
A question like "should I buy this, yes or no?" isn't the kind of questions others can answer very well. And if we did, we'd need to say WHY we thought so, which would involve explaining a principle. And with all of the best answers, it needs to start, "It depends." |
![]() | Humans look for patterns. There are patterns in sound, story, colors, words, designs and textures. Needlework, architecture and ironwork. Waves, clouds, and snow. Puzzles, mazes and games. Cosmic, microscopic and temporary patterns are all around us. |