Just Add Light and Stir

from a set of questions going around in 2009: Question: What ways have you found to continue your own learning? What kinds of thin...

a mom wrote: Having the television on all day is not something I want and I live here too. Sandra Dodd's response: We don't ...

This was written about the Dodd kids and their questions about U.S. Presidents, in 2003. Click the link at the bottom for what came...

Can you control your child's emotions? No. Can you affect your child's emotions? Yes. Everything you do, while you ha...

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...

Debbie Harper wrote: When the environment is contributing to a child's anxiety, improve the environment, rather than seeking to i...

Pam Sorooshian wrote: How we lived was completely unrelated to school and no longer in reaction to school, once I'd gotten a good g...

When someone recommends turning full on toward the child, that means don't keep reading your newspaper or your computer screen. Pause...

I accidentally deleted a post, and am replacing it. I also fixed a typo. It might go out by e-mail again, and I'm sorry! At least you ...

Pam Sorooshian wrote: Unschooling is sort of "messy" in that there isn't a "plan" and kids can often go in one d...

Learning to see learning is a process. It's part of deschooling, for the parents. When learning starts to show, in its natural state,...

Yesterday I posted about how I got my kids into grocery stores , from parking lots, safely. While seeing whether the quote had been used be...

If you offer service with the hope of reward or praise or indebtedness, it will create resentment in you and in those who received the serv...

Pam Sorooshian described what she called "a very basic tenet of unschooling": Surround the child with a swirling, wonderful, exci...

In English there's a phrase, an idiom, a lump of words: "peace and quiet." People speak wistfully of "peace and quiet...

Here's an idea that will work with just about every aspect of life: Every time you make a decision, wait until you've th...

This photo is from another year.           I'm glad the sheep had a cookie.                    It's glorious t...

Learn Nothing Day begins circling the world soon, from one midnight to another, from New Zealand through Australia, Singapore and Malaysia, ...

Say "yes" hundreds of happy, surprising-to-the-kids times, about whether they can stay up a little later, or have another c...

Conversations with a parent are natural learning fodder. Natural learning doesn’t happen in a vacuum or in isolation. Those things ar...