Just Add Light and Stir

Unschooling is a substitute for compulsory schooling, and exists in times and places where nearly unlimited information is available, ...

Tina B/canuckgal wrote in 2008: We continue to come to this life bit by bit as well. I think for us it is an extension of attachm...

Rebecca Justus, from a longer chart about unschooling (linked below): Live your lives and trust that learning will happen around and wi...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: Some people hold onto the fear that kids need schoolish math to learn math. They need to experience their ki...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: The basic idea of unschooling is that we learn what we need by using it. And that's exactly how kids lear...

Alysia Berman wrote: I tell people that I'm amazed every day by what my kids know and learn. It seems miraculous. It's not, r...

Peace is a prerequisite to natural, curious, intellectual exploration. What is peace, then, in a home with children? Contentment is peace...

In order for parents to unschool, they need to become unschooling parents. Saying "we're unschoolers now" isn't enough...

Same boring, stupid, same-old... Oh, wait! A Quonset hut, back there, with a side building. Look at the tumbleweed. That attachment lo...

Lighten up. Live Lightly. Real Learning photo by Sandra Dodd See also: Light on light; Sources of light; and Sun, or Moon, or Fire

Pam Sorooshian wrote: I'm not saying to prepare a lesson on cactus or coconuts or pineapples. I'm saying that if you're not a...

When freedom and choices are given to children, they are given by a parent who has the power to withhold them. The parents are stil...

I'm sure there are things on my roof that would be interesting to someone else, but I don't go up there, and I don't look. Wh...

"Every person's learning about the world will be piecemeal - so it might as well be serendipitous and interest based." —C...

Today's text is taken from my FB memories yesterday, things written by others: 2010: "I wish people who think un...

Read about why, and what others have seen. Try it a little. Don't expect her not to think you're crazy at first; wait a while. ...

There are MANY people who came to unschooling and honestly tried to consider the ideas, and they tried the suggestions, and their families s...

To have a more peaceful, loving relationship that has the potential to last for a lifetime, don't count and don't measure. Don...

"Some kids need school more than they need their dangerous or lifeless home environments." I wrote that in 2009. School was goo...

If everything is unfamiliar, it's hard to think about what it is at all. If everything is too familiar, it can escape notice and consci...