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Shhhhh.... don't scare him. photos by Holly Dodd Almogordo, 2009

Pam Sorooshian, in a discussion in June 2011: I didn't get to observe radically unschooled kids before coming to the conclusions...

From some ideas for proving unschooling gradually to an unknowing spouse: Go "interdisciplinary" as much as you can so you ...

Sally Lopez wrote: This was lunch for Will (3 yrs), who was busy playing games online, and for Elias (18 mos), who was napping while...

When someone asked: anyone else ever fear that they were too boring (or too limited in resources) to unschool? I responded: Yes. ...

When a mother lives with a thought like "These kids owe me…" it's unlikely that she will get very far toward generosity ...

In a discussion unrelated to this, I had written: There are no "preschoolers" when you're not planning to send a child...

Annie Kessler wrote: I used to honestly believe that my son was really sensitive to sugar and that consuming it changed his behavior...

Can they go to college/university? I've never heard of anyone being turned away from higher education because they were homesch...

I’ve been credited with the description below, but it was written by Joyce Fetteroll and tweaked by Pam Sorooshian and me before it w...

SandraDodd.com/words Image by an engineering student in the UK whose Fiverr name was Spartali, in 2014

Robyn Coburn, when Jayn was little: Jayn certainly finds learning inescapable. Educational is an irrelevant label to her, neither en...

Mary Ellen (nellebelle) wrote, years ago: Up to now, we have never had any video games in our house. It wasn't that I purposely a...

Meredith wrote: Expecting human relationships—of any kind—to be fair and equitable is a set-up for cynicism and disappointment in th...

Sandra Dodd, May 6, 2008, from a conference follow-up question: Won't they end up lazy? Do they expect other people to make...

From a 2003 article, "Some Thoughts on Homeschooling," by Sandra Dodd My children learned to read without phonics lessons,...

Sue Elvis wrote: Gradually I was discovering what was really important. And bit by bit, I rejected anything that led us away from that ...

Parts of a longer, fast-paced story of twelve-year-old Holly Dodd, who asked me this: "Will you read me the whole Bible?" ...

"Temporary Christmas..."—aren't they all? Temporarily we can see fun. We can share thoughts. Allow joy to flow, when...

Call around to the museums in your area and find out what programs they offer. Get on their mailing lists and go to the events. Call...