![]() | Beauty can be found in small things. |
photo by Orion Larson
![]() | Beauty can be found in small things. |
![]() | "Gentle moments call for a calm mind." —Holly Dodd |
![]() | When the adults are happy and the children have choices, work can be fun. |
Here and there can be in the same place, when we combine them in the same thought, or image. Connect past and future, near and far, personal and universal. Frolic in your mind. | ![]() |
The quote is from "Knowing Everything." The title refers to something Kirby asked me when he was little. The rest of the essay is here: SandraDodd.com/zeneverything. The story also appears in the book Moving a Puddle.
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![]() | "The goal of unschooling is not education. It is to help a child be who she is and blossom into who she will become. Education happens as side effect." —Joyce Fetteroll |
![]() | People can come nearer to the way they would like to be, but only incrementally, choice by choice. |
The more you know about something, the more you can know, because there are more and more hooks to hang more information on—more dots to connect. | ![]() |
![]() | "We who believe that children want to learn about the world, are good at it, and can be trusted to do it with very little adult coercion or interference, are probably no more than one percent of the population, if that. And we are not likely to become the majority in my lifetime." —John Holt Teach Your Own |
Everyone who helps others unschool or to live peacefully with their children is contributing to the peace of the world. |
![]() | Unschool as well as you can, and lots of the side questions disappear. |
![]() | How will you be, as a parent, and why? What's keeping you from being the way you want to be? |
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Beautiful moments of stillness and calm are around us all the time. Sometimes we notice. | ![]() |
Be as nice to your child as you can be, as often as you can be. | ![]() |
Have a conscious, continuous and mindful partnership with your child. | ![]() |
![]() | School calls a small sliver of the world "all", and we call all of life's learning "some". |
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![]() | It helps unschooling and mindful parenting to be aware of your kids and their unique needs rather than treating them as generic kids with all the worst possible traits. —Joyce Fetteroll |
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The parents don't need to know what the child is learning
If a child is bored and agitated, she's not learning. If she's happy and smiling and humming and engaged with what she's thinking, seeing, hearing, tasting, touching or smelling, then she's learning. |
![]() | Find the fun and see the beauty. |