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Writing is thinking clearly. For unschoolers writing will be helped by a kid having the confidence that if someone asks him about a...

To get to the kinds of relationships being advocated here, a mom needs to let go of many things, two of which are the image of the per...

Ben Lovejoy wrote: The difficulty of having so many rules in your life is not that you can’t get things done; it’s that you find it h...

Response to a mom who expressed concern about the social outgoingness of a young teen: Consider the value of letting him be the star...

Nothing on paper is learning. Nothing recited is learning. Nothing in a conversation is learning.... Learning is putting inform...

Cara Potter wrote: Having the concepts of authenticity and freedom foremost in your mind doesn't help unschooling - they'...

Karen James wrote: Freedom is a lovely word. It’s a huge concept. It has a very meaningful place in our society. It is important to a...

Leah Rose wrote: Unschooling, deschooling, parenting peacefully, all of it called to me, deeply, but it felt like a huge risk, a gia...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: It helped me think more clearly about unschooling when I realized unschooling isn’t something kids do. Unsc...

Rather than tell a child in advance what's about to be seen, it can be wonderful to let them feel they've discovered something on t...

My children learned to read without being taught. If my children were the only children in the history of the world who learned withou...

Pam Sorooshian wrote, of soothing a frustrated child: YOU have to figure this out—you are like a detective in a way, or a psychiatrist...

Karen James wrote: I think advice of any kind can get in the way of unschooling if it is taken as truth without some reflection. Unschool...

In your head, you have some repeating-loop messages. Some are telling you you're doing a good job, but I bet some of them are not. Som...

If we raise the level of peace our children expect, they will know what peace feels like. Adults need to know what peace feels like too,...

Somewhere in the world it is morning every moment. Somewhere, light is dawning. Some people, and I'm one of them, believe that any...

If unschooling parents can move away from hatred and fear, and toward gratitude and abundance, their children's lives are profoundly...

There are machines, conveyances, tools, that are so beautiful that people make models of them, or working toys for children. Front-end l...

Marta Venturini, in an interview in 2020: I see deschooling much more than just that process of replacing school with no school. Beca...

Of "experts" renouncing unschooling the first time they hear of it: I understand that it’s difficult to understand unschooling...