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Some days lunch is medicinal—one child is sickly and could use soup or juice. One is off to a sports event, and carbohydrates are a g...

"Fun is serious. Fun is important, especially for kids. Don't underrate fun. People who are not happy as children seldom find easy ...

Caren Knox wrote: Trust is a vital foundation to building an unschooling home. If kids can't trust that what their parents are ...

"The big upside of unschooling, in my opinion, was that it also created an unexpected peacefulness, fulfillment, and h...

In weaving, one thread touches all the others. At first, learning is in one place, play is in another, and work is in a third. Unschoolers...

Deb Lewis wrote: Unschooling works well when parents are interesting, positive, thoughtful, considerate, generous, passionate, hones...

If you think you haven't done enough for your children lately, do more. Maintain and replenish photo by Janine Da...

If you think of two things and choose the better one, then you've made a choice. If you act without thinking first, you ha...

Putting your child first while you unschool is important. When your kids grow up, you could dedicate the rest of your life to only wear...

Are you doing enough? Are your kids looking at you expectantly, or are they busy off doing something fun? Have they seen the cool tou...

Negativity is contagious. Joy can be contagious, unless one is wielding the sword of negativity, protected by the shield of cynicism. ...

I was asked: Did your kids have rules like bedtimes, no candy before dinner ... that sort of thing? I wrote: We didn'...

Joyce wrote: There's more to unschooling than just not doing school. To make it flourish we need to look at ourselves, our relat...

Plain milk tastes WAY better if it's your choice than it does when it's plain because someone else wouldn't let you put...

Someone said one time that she counts to ten and then she's still mad so what should she do, and a couple of people said "Cou...

I really believe unschooling works best when parents trust a child's personhood, his intelligence, his instincts, his potential ...

Lean, one choice at a time, one conscious thought at a time, until your choices and thoughts are solidly in the range where you want to b...

When a science-minded kid loves to take the dog down by the river and look for wild berries and snakes, some parents say, "My kid ...

Find, consider, value connections. Notice, contemplate, appreciate patterns. SandraDodd.com/connections photo by Sandra Dodd...

Unschooling and relationships work better when one partner accepts the other's interests, hobbies and ways of being. SandraDodd.com...