Just Add Light and Stir

Bob Collier wrote: After Pat quit school, he refused to read a book. He hates them. Thank you school for teaching my son to hate re...

Sandra/me, in 2003: Sometimes one will say "I'm really not feeling good," as Holly did yesterday, and her need for juic...

Robin wrote: I'm sure on any given day I could look at what we're doing and say "We haven't done much today" and...

Cara Potter wrote: Having the concepts of authenticity and freedom foremost in your mind doesn't help unschooling - they'...

Karen James wrote: When we are consistently patient with a child, in time the child will learn patience. The child will come to u...

It helps to hear what you say (read what you write) as clearly as you can. And then to hear what you think, about your children and your ...

IF you can manage to move from cynicism and critical darkness into wonder and abundance—if you can make choices that help you live light...

It's easy to say if there's not an objective measure of happiness that it's not worth talking about, but each person ...

When people are able to relax into learning without the self-consciousness of whether what they're learning will impress the neighbor...

Have purpose, don't just go through thoughtless motions. That was a comment by me/Sandra in a discussion on facebook once but a go...

Meredith Novak said: In a way unschooling could be said to have a recipe or to use a recipe as a jumping off point. But it's not a r...

What SHOULD I be doing as an unschooling parent? More. Better than school Making memories Unschooling Very Well Sand...

Be warmly and peacefully available to your children. To your family. Part of that is a quote Jihong saved from something I said at a...

Sabine Mellinger wrote: This is my 15 year old son with his dog. I was looking at this picture and thinking about how one of the m...

Providing a rich life for one's child is a healing opportunity for the parent. SandraDodd.com/healing photo by Rosie Moon _...

When I was a kid, humans used tools and that made us human, but that's no longer "the truth." Chimpanzees can use a lea...

Karen James wrote: Play. A lot. Wonder. A lot. Listen. Observe. Smile. A lot. .... If they like shows, watch shows. If they li...

"Sometimes the measure of unschooling's success isn't how much a kid meets normal expectations, but how much sweeter and eas...

[Warnings can become attractions.] It seems what will cause a kid to watch a show he doesn't want to watch is parental disappr...

People like rules and touchstones and proofs and flags to wave. I think 'the rule' should be 'think,' and the touchstone ...