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Robyn Coburn wrote: I think that any time we get caught up in the idea that the child is "being disrespectful" (self-focus...

Young love was fun. Longterm love is different—different things are fun. Familiarity. Having a good woodpile. Memories. Projects. Gran...

We have been taught in school that humans have no more instincts left. WHAT bunk. Parents have the instinct to protect and nurture. Ch...

Nancy B. quoted from a poem by Ruth Hulburt Hamilton and Melissa responded (below): Cleaning and scrubbing can wait till...

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

Stephanie E. wrote: It came to me the other day that Jason is more engaged then if he were doing puzzles in a book or being read to. W...

Part of a 2004 description of our unschooling home, when three kids and their friends were here: They come here and we’re workin...

I know the word "struggle" is as popular as "groovy" was in 1967, but it's not nearly as groovy. If every time...

"Focussing on being my child's partner is helping me to place my real life children front and centre of my attention and to t...

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

Sandra Dodd, of Holly Dodd (Holly was 12 and told an older story, in 2003): My husband's oldest brother came to visit and she an...

This was written in 2005, so note the update below. My husband and I always said please and thank you to each other, and friends would c...

Meredith Novak, years ago, on communicating with relatives who ask about unschooling: It's helpful to keep in mind that one of the bi...

[The word "Service"] stirred negative feelings for many years, until I had my first child. Being with my children, giving th...

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...

Sometimes I think I know what someone is thinking, or what my cat wants. Sometimes I'm right. When someone, or my cat, thinks about ...

We live in an everyday-thing world. People always have. The only way to avoid the everyday world is to limit and control our children...

I know that I can change the whole mood in my household simply by smiling and "be"ing happy. It creates a happy energy that infe...

Some days, some moments I am overwhelmed by just how fantastic my life is and how supportive my husband is. David is absolutely wonderfu...

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