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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...

Unschooling is difficult. It's a luxury. It's not a guarantee, it's not a right, it's not a product anyone can sell you,...

Parents new to unschooling tend to worry that some activities are good preparation for life, but others are frivolous and should be forbid...

Sandra Dodd to Deb Lewis: If I could describe all your writing in just a few words, it might be "Peace, humor and scary monsters....

Lea Goin wrote: I just realized my children turn down sweets all the time! I've tried to maintain a candy bowl in hands reach ...

I remember being in school and asking "Why do we need to know this?" I asked it, other kids asked it, and one answer I re...

Joyce Feteroll wrote: Thank them! Even if they haven't done it the way you would. Even if they've done less than you think the...

Terminology reflects thought and belief. Sometimes just a slight shift in terminology will release the mental block that keeps pe...

Kelly Schultz, at the end of a longer account of learning from Barbie Everywhere we go, we meet women who have loved their Barbies, yo...

I have seen toys, in museums, just like things I played with as a child in the 1950s and 60s, and that my children played with in the 1980s ...

How you view a thing is affected by physical realities (height, vision, lighting), cognitive aspects (familiarity, spatial ability), emoti...

Janine wrote: Most of the things that have happened I didn't foresee! And they continue to happen and surprise me every day! To name...

When we stop looking at our kids and what they do through schooly glasses, we're no longer concerned about how long they've been ...

Jo Isaac wrote: While Kai and I were watching Inside Out yesterday, they had a part where broccoli is in the 'disgust' part of...

I love museums. Museums of any sort are special to me, and sometimes I'm thinking about the building or whose idea it was or where the...

Sometimes a shop can be like a museum. Some museums have displays of shops (or things from shops, in the past). Some museums have gift sho...

Alex Polikowsky, the day after "Pi Day" one year when her kids were younger: My kids can eat bowls of sugar if they want. They ...

Ultimately, "better" and "good" will be seen in retrospect, or in realizations that things are WAY better than t...

In some corner of your house, on some shelf, or windowsill, you might have a few items about which you could tell a story or two. I saw...