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Shhhhh.... don't scare him. photos by Holly Dodd Almogordo, 2009

"Something to smile about" might be a big-deal day, or a normal rainy day, but there will be something sweet or new or funny...

Tina Bragdon wrote: More and more I am beginning to understand what you say about the power of our words, the semantics of them, and...

Bernadette Lynn wrote: My son isn't restricted in what he eats. He came into the kitchen yesterday to ask me if there were any bis...

In response to I see the cause of the issue but struggling with finding solutions. Do you WANT to keep struggling? Or do you want...

Note from a discussion in February 2012: "I totally understand the idea behind radical unschooling, that children will self reg...

Sandra Dodd, May 6, 2008, from a conference follow-up question: Won't they end up lazy? Do they expect other people to make...

Me/Sandra, in response to the mom of a youngish boy who sometimes agreed to do something, but when the time came, he was reluctant:...

Years back, a group of families traded babysitting. Kirby had a favorite family to visit, where there were several kids who knew an...

About how to help kids follow their interests: Sometimes help is just encouragement or acknowledgment, but sometimes it might need t...

Problem: My son spends a lot of his time playing video games. I have accepted that this is his passion... and maybe very well play a ...

Once someone wrote that babies had no experience and no way to communicate except "frustrated cries, screams and babbling." ...

Schuyler Waynforth wrote: I make lots of food. I like cooking. I like baking. And Simon and Linnaea mostly prefer my food to store f...

Some mainstream families press their teenaged children to get jobs, and shame them if they fail, while putting conditions on when and ...

[Teens can feel crowded] by the new and real knowledge that the house is small and the world is huge. Baby birds have no idea what'...

The article's real name is " Art, Aging and Spirituality — Connections between Things and Ideas." I wrote it in early 2001...

Part of a 2004 description of our unschooling home, when three kids and their friends were here: They come here and we’re workin...

Sandra, March 2008: All my kids have TVs in their rooms. No... Holly took hers out when the VHS player broke, and it's in a corner...

My kids are great at delayed gratification, all of them. They have saved money, earned money, bought small things, and large things, waite...

Bob Collier wrote: Before my son's years of unschooling, it would never have occurred to me that it was possible for someb...