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Do the best you can to survive the bumps and unexpected turns of the trails through the unschooling world, which will necessarily...

Peace can be just contentment—to be happy where you are, to like your life. SandraDodd.com/peace/noisy (the quote is from the sound file a...

The second you have a positive attitude, even fleetingly, your life is better, right then. SandraDodd.com , any page photo by Sa...

"Being the mom I wish I'd had has been very healing. It's been the closest thing to having that mom I could achieve w...

Be the kind of person you want your child to be. Nurture your own curiosity and joy. Find gratitude and abundance in your life. ...

"One of my epiphanies as a parent actually came when I realized I was not being as good a friend to my own kids as I was to...

Something near your house, or in your town, that you see every day, would be exotic and beautiful to someone from another part of the wor...

"The morning of the world," someone might say, meaning just as the world was new and bright. From this we and our children can...

"Learning flows when needs are met, connections are strong, and kids can absolutely trust their parents, and know their parents are t...

If you can allow yourself to relax into wonder, your children will have a wonderful mom. SandraDodd.com/wonder photo by Sandra Dod...

Peace, like learning, is largely internal. Mother Teresa could have found a more peaceful place than Calcutta, but she was helping pe...

Children have been whole, thinking, seeing beings since the day they were born. Assisting them to learn and to find their strength...

Being a good parent, not according to a list in a magazine, or vague memories of what grandparents might have thought or said, but bei...

Being nice to another person is what makes one nice. Being patient with another person is what makes one patient. If a parent says hatef...

See, appreciate, and encourage imagination. SandraDodd.com/imagination photo by Elise Lauterbach

If you can't connect ponies, rainbows, unicorns, Kermit, joy and immersion, read at the link below. But I suppose you could, with a li...

Being where you are, in a mindful way, with the potential and the tools to be still and know it, is the portal to a better life. Call it wh...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: Sometimes learning looks like flitting from one thing to another. But it's more like gathering a collection...

[There is something interesting] at the crux of the difference between being an unschooler and being however we all used to be before. W...

When you make the smallest of choices about what to do, say or think concerning your child, base it on your own child, in that moment. Th...