Just Add Light and Stir

Try to embrace "very random" so unschooling will work optimally! 🙂 Even for kids who are in school, the more parents talk ...

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

I (Sandra) wrote: Try not to go against nature, when you're aiming to "be natural." [Later in that same discussion] ...

The middle of a longer article: They grew up with exposure, context, experiences and knowledge of those things mathematics is design...

Katy Jennings, when her son was twelve, about not requiring chores: Another thing that was recommended that has really helped me is fi...

What I...do, is to help people live calmly and peacefully. It always interests me when people want me to stop doing that, to take it b...

Melissa Raley wrote: My daughter asked me to play a computer game with her and I told her that I "had" to clean the kitchen f...

The other day Emma, 6, asked me a series of questions to which all of the answers were yes. She stopped and stared at my head for a bit a...

Colleen Prieto wrote: I was thinking the other day about husbands and chores and how many people I've heard say that it shouldn...

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

I have heard many stories of the rearrangements of families with unschoolers who are in their late teens or early twenties, and a young ad...

Joyce Fetteroll, in helping others untangle ideas and prejudices about what children think they "need": If someone needs thre...

"A place for every thing, and every thing in its place" can hamper a lot of experimentation and originality. Live loosely, for ...

Gratitude doesn't need to be saved up for big things. Abundance and gratitude photo by Vlad Gurdiga

Once a mom was being argumentative and defensive. She deleted a long discussion out of spite or frustration, but some of us rescued it. H...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: Picture learning like piecing together a massive jigsaw puzzle. With natural learning kids plunge into the puzzle...

For the parents, deschooling is learning about learning. For the parents AND the children, Sorting through things is learning. Sorti...

Finding ways not to be grumpy about dishes is a good model and practice field for other choices in life. We get our dishes from thrif...

Few things are just one thing. Most things are many things. Karen James is doing ceramics these days, and so her bowls are a hobby, a co...

Before I was married, I had dishes and I washed them. When I was married, I had dishes and I washed them. I have children, and sometime...