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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...

If you're looking up at the Sky of Imagined Tomorrow, you're going to stumble on something with your very next step. Look ...

The first stage is all the fear and uncertainty and angst. Then comes deschooling and noticing how much of one's thoughts might be sch...

They don’t live to grow up. They’re living in the present. They don’t relate to questions about what they will do later or be when th...

Pam Sorooshian wrote: What's your favorite thing to do? Watch movies? Read a book? Garden? Go to Disneyland? Why don't you...

Debbie Regan wrote: From the outside, unschooling may look like no chores, no bedtimes, no education, no discipline, no structu...

Who you are, no one else can be. Who you are now is not who you were before. Who you are today is not who you will be tomorr...

Knot tying can lead to all kinds of history and geography. Hunters, traps, climbing, ships (wrapped bottles, in addition to all kinds of sai...

A reader named Eleanor wrote: I was very grateful to discover your writings on ‘struggle’ and the compilation on your website relating to ‘s...

If you want to measure, measure generously. If you want to give, give generously. If you want to unschool, or be a mindful parent, gi...

Unschooling is the ultimate individualized learning situation, and comparisons are unnecessary. SandraDodd.co...

There are arbitrary limits that parents just make up, or copy from the neighbors. Then there are limits that have to do with laws, rules, ...