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About how to help kids follow their interests: Sometimes help is just encouragement or acknowledgment, but sometimes it might need t...

If someone knew almost nothing in the world but trivia relating to popular music for the past 100 years, that would make a HELL of a goo...

Joanne Lopers wrote: There is something oh so sweet about a child doing something without being asked. Vega who is 8, cleaned out ou...

Kerryn wrote: There have been fleeting moments of seeing unschooling at work in our house. I would love to share them with you all....

Parents who are afraid their unschooled children won't learn enough might have forgotten how little learning actually happens in scho...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: I once described the difference between teaching and learning as where you shine the spotlight. I...

Kids who are in school just visit life sometimes, and then they have to stop to do homework or go to sleep early or get to school o...

Part of deschooling is reviewing how we learned what we know, and how legitimate that knowledge is. FACT photo by Chelsea Thurman

Unschooling is living a rich life and letting learning drop into your lap and into your ears and mind while you laugh and listen to m...

Remember that things seem different different times to different people. My perspective when I'm stressed or sad will be...

The learning curve of unschoolers has a plateau in the middle, it seems. Don't worry. SandraDodd.com/learningcurve photo ...

It's July! May is history. Those who are long grown probably never thought of a year like 2016 as "history," but now...

For unschooling to work, parents need to stop looking into the future and live more in the moment with their real child. BEING ...

When Kirby was 13 he was asked whether he liked homeschooling better than school. Most 13 year olds asked a question by an a...