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Many of the things we routinely recommend to help unschooling families are also helpful to anyone's mental health and wellbeing. G...

"Yesterday" in 2004: I still see "subject areas" everywhere, but I haven't taught those categories and prej...

"jbantau" wrote: For the first time, in what seems like my entire life, I am not terrified. Up until now, I have been wiel...

Someone wrote: "My worry is that I am needing to do something bigger/more." I responded: If you don’t feel like you’re doi...

When a mom is stressed and can't find the equilibrium to start in a calm place with her kids, I suggest that she not watch the loc...

Responses to concerns posted by nervous parents: Not having a high school diploma didn't keep my always unschooled daugh...

"Building an unschooling nest" is a phrase that has come to mean maintaining a safe, rich, happy environment in which learni...

Favorite response to “What about socialization?” I say "What do you mean?" Usually the question is asked by rote, the sa...

If we've been conditioned to believe that children are unworthy and inferior but we consciously step away from that place and se...

Q: What if your child (like mine) has an interest in one area (Civil War), yet hardly reads about it and never shows an interest in oth...

Brie wrote, when a mom felt inadequate for not having her kids outside more: I suggest making "outside" simply another s...

Deb Lewis wrote: We played at the river yesterday. We threw rocks at floating ice chunks until we couldn't feel our fingers anym...

Live your life in such a way that other people will trust you. When you make decisions, make generous, selfless decisions so that others ...

Holly drove me to a neighborhood near her house where she has seen peacocks, roaming. We spotted four, but this one was up high in the su...

When people come here and their messages are like parroted little recordings of things their teachers said, that their grandparents and ...

Lyle Perry wrote: Unschooling is like the tiny sparks of imagination that arc through a person's mind when they really watch a bird...

With "make the better choice," the quality of the options gradually is raised far and away from the original starting-place opt...

Karen James wrote: If we don't move away from the extremes—those slightly blurry edges—we won't get to appreciate the crisp det...

Seeing new things and learning their names is the way babies and toddlers learn their native languages and how they learn about the world...

If someone is being entertained, that person is thinking. That person is analyzing SOMETHING, and every trail made in the brain is a reus...