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Leah Rose wrote: Unschooling, deschooling, parenting peacefully, all of it called to me, deeply, but it felt like a huge risk, a gia...

Over the years when people have said, "But I have to wash the dishes," people such as Deb Lewis and Joyce Fetteroll have mad...

A person can choose to have choices. A person can choose not to choose; still a choice, but they think of it as "no choice...

Learning and changing is fun. It's healthy. It's useful. SandraDodd.com/authentic photo by Gail Higgins

How do you apportion your patience, attention, courtesy, time, money, material help, respect? Those sorts of decisions make you who...

Every time "have to" comes up in writing, speech or thought, back up two words and see it as a choice, and not a have to. You ...

My kids are great at delayed gratification, all of them. They have saved money, earned money, bought small things, and large things, waite...

If people can come to understand why it matters whether they use "teach" or "learn," they can start to get other s...

Unschooling takes a long time to learn. Rushing a child to understand something complicated while the parent isn’t even looking in the ri...

by Joyce Fetteroll , from something longer on her site: Our job is to create an atmosphere so they can feel good about helping, or ...

I've given this advice to newlyweds, and to my oldest child the first time he had a roommate: Don't aim for 50/50. If 50% i...

I think the elimination of "have to" is the first step toward peace. Thinking you "have to" do the dishes feels oppre...

I understand why photos of food are popular. For years, cookbooks and magazines have tried for good food photos, but they're not alwa...

Glenda Sikes wrote: I vividly remember there being a point several years into unschooling when I realized that so many of the thing...

Breathe in a happy memory. Breathe out gratitude. Breathe in hope. Breathe out love. Breathe in a Happy Memory photo by...

If someone's thinking "we will be happier when..." it's worth remembering that there are ways to be happier now, withou...

Unschooling takes a long time to learn. Rushing a child to understand something complicated while the parent isn’t even looking in th...

There is something you already have that can be fun and soothing: words . "Ukulele window" has a pretty rhythm, and is fun and ...

This photo is the background for the "G" on the lovely Learn Nothing Day logo . Children need to be protected from physical a...

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...