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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...

In response to someone saying her child would rather take the easy route than try something tough, Joyce Fetteroll wrote: It's hum...

Renee Cabatic wrote, in 2013: As Xander has been playing Grand Theft Auto 5, I've written down some of the things he's been lea...

When teens or young adults have chosen to have a job without desperation for money, and when they are accustomed to learning all the time an...

" Headgear " in very many forms, and unschoolers. photo credit lost in history; mask by Marty Dodd (photo is a link)

I've seen a difference in motivation in teens who have been nurtured and whose parents were not adversarial with them. They don't c...

When Kirby was offered a job in another state, including an allowance for his moving expenses, I wanted to be encouraging without se...

I had been unschooling for years before a few people suggested on a message board that requiring kids to do chores could be as bad as m...

Here's an idea that will work with just about every aspect of life: Every time you make a decision, wait until you've th...

"Power struggles can disappear when the person with the power stops struggling." —Deb Lewis SandraDodd.com/deblewis SandraD...