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Janine Davies, responding to this quote: Unschooling can make life better. Really, fully unschooling becomes more philosophical and sp...

Jo Isaac wrote: Scientific studies show that parents who control food end up passing on a whole set of other problems to their kid...

[One day in 2006—me, Sandra Dodd:] I dropped an egg on the floor. Just fumbled it, splat, and I looked at it. I remembered the first ...

You don't know exactly what your children need. They won't know either, if they're never allowed to live in such a way that the...

Remember that if your “unit study” is the universe, everything will tie in to everything else, so you don’t need to categorize or be met...

Teresa/Treesock wrote: I thought, wow, what a perfect expression of humanity in this day and age unschooling is! We can get our hand...

Christine Macdonald wrote that she and her daughter had walked to the grocery store once to pick up milk they needed for a recipe: I ...

Schuyler Waynforth wrote: David and I were talking about gifts tonight as we were making dinner together. He said that he doesn...

In a 2005 discussion, someone asked: Where is the line drawn? (Because of the inherent power difference between parents and children,...

Nicole wrote: Thank you for the ways you have helped me embrace abundance and the positive impact this has on my family. I am enteri...

Call around to the museums in your area and find out what programs they offer. Get on their mailing lists and go to the events. Call...

Unschooling is priceless. It cannot be bought. And "cost" is a difficult concept, so if you have an easy answer floating to ...

Writing to real people for real purposes improves writing in real ways. There are some people who haven’t been born yet who will, ...

Sandra Dodd to Deb Lewis: If I could describe all your writing in just a few words, it might be "Peace, humor and scary monsters....

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

I think we were discussing offering an older child money to read to a younger child, or to play with them at their level; kind of an o...

Peace is not an element "that can neither be created nor destroyed." Peace is entirely a condition and a mood. It's very, v...

Terminology reflects thought and belief. Sometimes just a slight shift in terminology will release the mental block that keeps pe...

In a life where the goals are partnership, good relationships between parents and children, and an atmosphere of constant curiosity...

Meredith Novak responded to a mom worried about a child only doing one thing: It's important to note that he's Not doing One ...