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Some people play chess well,      but it's not for everyone. In 2006, a mom wrote: I still can't play chess or behave ...

Schuyler Waynforth wrote: Unschooling is at its core an understanding that learning is a part of being human. It is a recognition th...

"What helped me relax was focusing on our relationship with each other and fostering GENUINE interest in each others' interest...

Even two people reading the same book are gleaning different things from it, or maybe one is just looking at the photos. Marty and I ...

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

Teresa/Treesock wrote: I thought, wow, what a perfect expression of humanity in this day and age unschooling is! We can get our hand...

This just makes me shudder: "Come on people, we are all doing the best that we can." It means "Stop trying. Trying...

Pam Sorooshian wrote: An unschooling parent needs to be fully present with their kids, sensitive to their kids' needs, and ex...

When a newcomer was very confused, Meredith Novak wrote: The basis of unschooling comes from seeing learning as a substantial huma...

In a 2005 discussion, someone asked: Where is the line drawn? (Because of the inherent power difference between parents and children,...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: Wanting your family to be happy, joyful and learning seems a perfectly fine goal! But you won't get t...

Paula L, in a brainstorming discussion about jobs: And the list didn't mention cleaning and organizing businesses! My husband and...

We just had our 33rd wedding anniversary last week. Someone wished me well on my page and said she hoped we did something fun. I said ...

Meredith Novak wrote: A great deal of parenting "wisdom" is made up of things "everyone knows" because every...

I would help my kids with anything they needed help with, if I had the time and patience. When I didn't do so, I wasn't being ...

Sink-Like-a-Stone Method: Instead of skimming the surface of a subject or interest, drop anchor there for a while. If someone is...

When children choose their foods, they will choose things you didn't expect! SandraDodd.com/eating/balance photo by Sandra Dodd ...

Part of something longer (linked below): If your childhood abuse and neglect have left a lot of closed-off areas inside you, it would...

Summer MacDonald wrote: Laundry is love. I love each person whose pants I am washing and folding. I love each meal I have shared with ...

An online friend, in response to a photo of my family, when I was a teen (me in the middle with stripes): I'm looking at that pretty y...