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Some of your days should be all new and exciting and novel, and some should be same old, same old comfortable home. SandraDodd.com...

If I "give my children freedom" in a situation, it's because I had some leeway or rights myself. I cannot "give th...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: My motivation for homeschooling was for learning to be fun and interesting whether first grade or twelfth gr...

Pam Sorooshian wrote: Unschooling requires you to take joy in life. It requires you to appreciate the wonders of the world. Every m...

Jen Keefe wrote, about "deserving" things: One of the things I have found so wonderful about learning about unschooling i...

I was just as tall when I took a few steps over for a clearer view. Young children are not as tall, and what they see w...

I closed a talk recently with this: Be brave, be calm, be happy. Be braver, be calmer, be happier. The first line was written on my...

Where the spirituality comes in that, I think partly is the trust that your child is an organism that wants to learn—that that’s how peop...

Once a mom came and said she was having a hard time being present with her children. She wrote: I hate it, and feel like I'm missing...

Some kids are more monkey than their parents are. When that happens, it can be invigorating to find an adult who will converse and joke w...

Be warmly and peacefully available to your children. To your family. Part of that is a quote Jihong saved from something I said at a...

Virginia Warren wrote: Worrying feels like *doing something*, maybe because it is so time-consuming and exhausting. Every moment we...

Life will be better for all involved if you don't label your children's intelligence, or processing speed, or likelihood to rever...

Eva Witsel wrote: I can spend my energy on limiting my child's world so that he will be safe and happy or I can spend my energy on ...

Sometimes I think I know what someone is thinking, or what my cat wants. Sometimes I'm right. When someone, or my cat, thinks about ...

Karen James, to a worried mom with a young teen daughter: Try not to worry. I know that's hard. I'm a worrier, myself. But when we...

A mom named Hannah wrote: Unschooling has definitely changed my life for the better. Our family life is more peaceful and happy. I'...

[Warnings can become attractions.] It seems what will cause a kid to watch a show he doesn't want to watch is parental disappr...

There it is, for now. Later it won't be. See it, love it, be grateful, and then accept the changes, with grace. SandraDodd.com...

Jenny Cyphers wrote, of a parent getting up and going to do something with or for a child: It feels infinitely better for my spi...