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Once someone wrote that babies had no experience and no way to communicate except "frustrated cries, screams and babbling." ...

Pam Sorooshian wrote: Think about how you feel when you are "out of sorts." What will help you? What do you want from your...

Look at what looks good and sweet, and seek out more of that. —Jill Parmer SandraDodd.com/positivity Jill quote from the bott...

If an adult is using a television set, or a laptop computer, or a smartphone, and somebody asks them what they are doing they will say...

A mom posting as "Scooter," in 2001, wrote: I personally believe that most knowledge, no matter how trivial or useless to anyo...

Deb Lewis wrote: When you have snow, or can get to snow, snowshoeing is wonderful because you don't need any special skills to str...

Look at your child, more than at the game. People go to therapy not about a video game, but the relationship between them and their par...

If parents don't heal from those kinds of issues in their own childhoods, they will likely be perpetuated onto the next generation. Pa...

To have more peace, it helps to know what is NOT peace, so those harsh states can be avoided. Outrage is not healthy for unschooling par...

Something BIG happens when a person turns away from selfishness to service. Something HUGE happens when a person can care about anothe...

Joyce Fetteroll, responding to a fear-filled mom: While I'm a big fan of science and have a sciency degree, in terms of helping ...

A mom named Nancy, in western Canada, wrote: Again and again my kids can catch me when I am falling, and help me see the wonder of the s...

Find the best in each moment, the best moments in each hour, and by focusing on what is sweet and good, you will help others see the swee...

Glenda wrote: When I'm tired or hungry or don't feel well, I have to be more thoughtful about how I talk to my husband and how ...

When I was a kid, if my mom had done one nicer thing a day, that would have been thousands of nicer things in my childhood. What if a mom...

Sandra Dodd: If something causes biochemical euphoria or elation, and if the goal is learning, and peace, seek that out. Pay extra for tha...

Change one thing. Smile one sweet smile. Say one kind thing. Change one thing. photo by Nicole Kenyon

Alex Polikowsky wrote: There are some big ways that are wrong and anyone can see that. Verbal abuse or physical abuse comes to mind. ...

A cranky person once wrote to me: I do unschool but I obviously do not subscribe to your radical view of unschooling where children are expe...

For unschooling to work, the relationship of the parent to the child needs to become so clean and clear that the parent is being, and not...