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Amy Kidwell wrote: I had always wanted to learn to live in the moment, but it seemed a great mystery. Having my daughter and beco...

Kelli Traaseth wrote: Hold onto each day, know how quickly they pass. Kiss those tiny heads of toddlers and babies; smell their head...

If you're living in the past, that's a problem for now. If you're living in the future too much—        in the future that you...

"Teaching" is a problem, in an unschooling light. Learning is the goal, and teaching gets in the way. SandraDodd.com/teac...

Shan Burton wrote: Food you want, served to you by someone who loves you and brings it to you with a smile and a hug, has magica...

Sarah Thompson wrote: They don't need my direction much of the time, but they need me to pay attention to what is happening *in cas...

Knowing I wanted to use this photo of Lydia Koltai's daughter and a favorite chicken, I pulled up my site search and put in "angel...

Be glad to find things in life that can help you choose a good direction. SandraDodd.com/direction Photo by Charles Lagacé, i...

If a family is looking for rules and passivity, they can create a lifetime of it. If a family wants joy and learning, the creation is a bit ...

Colleen Prieto was talking to her son Robbie, who was nine, about "Frankenstorm." Below is Colleen's account: He thought f...

Of her birth family, Rippy wrote: My family used to regularly travel to India to a Sikh ashram where we were encouraged to examine our tho...

You could have a checklist scavenger hunt in your house. Do you have something from each decade of the past hundred years? I nominate...

Pam Sorooshian wrote: Unschooling happily and successfully requires clear thinking. . . . . Unschooling well requires unde...

It can be healing for parents to think back to their own sorrows and then to their own children's freedom from those experiences...

When learning is recognized in the fabric of life and encouraged, when families make their decisions based on what leads to more i...

by Deb Lewis, once upon a time: I wrote once before about how dish washing has come to be my mental health moment. I light a candl...

Be willing to be surprised where you are, to appreciate the unexpected, and to stop and notice something old or artsy. What's fa...

What else can be a problem with unschooling? Trying to save time and money; skimping on attention. I've done this, "Not ...

Embrace your present moment instead of yearning for what you don't have. I love the saying 'the grass is always greener where you...

Common sense among unschoolers is (and should be, needs to be) more particular and rarified than everyday "common sense." ...