SandraDodd.com/interviews/momlogic2010
the photo is from 2007, and is a link
P.S. I know kids are different; the statement above was about my kids.
Kids who aren't so at ease can benefit from being at home without pressure.
![]() | Help your children to be powerful. Let them have all of their power and some of yours. |
Living means changing. Appreciate the good things, however plain and simple. Don't rush, don't stop, but live. |
"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." | ![]() |
![]() | Here are three of mine: Kirby and his wife own a house (own a mortgage, anyway) and this is their beautiful walkway at night. Marty and his wife will have a son, in December or January. Lately and coming up, Holly has participated in several interesting and unrelated classes and workshops in dance, songwriting, burlesque, and yoga. |
If children are allowed to turn foods down, they're not forced to eat, and they're given choices, they will come to choose good foods, know when they're hungry and when they're not, and actually learn to listen to their bodies and know what they need. | ![]() |
Unschooling is more than just the absence of school. As we change, our perceptions change, and the perceptions of others toward us changes. | ![]() |
![]() | Do what will help your baby. Be the gentlest, sweetest, most attentive mother you can possibly be, and you will be putting peace in the bank for you and your whole family. |
![]() | On bonding with babies: "Sit still with them. And when they are still, sit still with yourself. Don't use so many moments of the day to do anything." —Schuyler Waynforth |
![]() | It helps a lot to try for better moments not days. Don't judge a day by one upset, judge it as a bad moment and move forward. A little bit better each moment. A little bit more aware. —Schuyler Waynforth |
![]() | "It was nice to be more quiet—to let things go unsaid. Not talking automatically and at length gave me more time to think about what I really wanted to say, if anything at all. I found I had fewer regrets—wishing I'd said something different or not at all. By talking less, I became a better listener too, I think." —Karen James |
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Look for usefulness. Look for beauty. Hang out, you and your laundry. |
"Sometimes people just want to wonder, rather than *know*. Or maybe they will want to know in the future, but right now they're just thinking on it and wondering." —Tam Palmer ![]() |
"Don't look for 'behaviors.' Look for learning and thinking and pondering and excitement and happiness!" —Robin Bentley | ![]() |
![]() | "The ONLY way I've learned how to be a more present, more caring, generous partner with my kids was by being with them, trying on choices closer and closer to radical unschooling, learning from those choices, then choosing again, better, each time (most times)." |
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