Just Add Light and Stir

Q/Kim: What parenting advice would you give to those who are new to unschooling? A/Sandra: Read a little, try a little, wait a wh...

Instead of making one huge decision now, consider it a series of thousands of small, mindful decisions to come. SandraDodd.com/speci...

Natural light comes not only from the sun, the moon, and a bit from stars if you're away from towns, but a bit can come from warm ...

Deb Lewis wrote more before and after this, but once when her son had a new telescope and there was a comet showing from Montana... ...

Lyle Perry wrote: A definition for unschooling is as intangible as a definition for living. I think, more importantly than anything ...

School and school-at-home sometimes teach people not to learn, or at least not to learn anything for fun without direction because ...

Think about what you think you "have to" do. Choose to do something good, for sensible reasons. SandraDodd.com/decision...

Deb wrote: If we recognize a difficult moment as one tricky moment in a day of potential great moments we're more likely to have...

For unschooling to work in that solid, twelve-or-twenty-year way, it should be about kids, and learning, and relationships and peace, ...

Each tree grows from a single seed, and when a tree is growing in your yard what is the best thing you can do for it? You can nurture ...

From responses to a charge that unschooling couldn't broaden a child's horizons: As to broadening horizons, sitting at a tab...

Calm yourself with the awareness of what's important. Being Home photo by Cathy Koetsier

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: My motivation for homeschooling was for learning to be fun and interesting whether first grade or twelfth gr...

Responses to concerns posted by nervous parents: Not having a high school diploma didn't keep my always unschooled daugh...

Holly drove me to a neighborhood near her house where she has seen peacocks, roaming. We spotted four, but this one was up high in the su...

Many unschoolers have reported changed feelings about pets, and successes in extending newfound principles to animal friends and co...

Disclaimers: Unschooling doesn't ensure mathematical ability. I wrote this before Marty got a degree in economics. They were 18 o...

If a person's life is compartmentalized into learning and not learning, then they have a part of them that is "not-learni...

Rippy wrote: If parents of school children ask, I usually say our homeschooling is pretty eclectic. I may give certain examples such as...

Deb Lewis wrote: I love the internet! For a family like ours, who couldn’t afford to travel much, the internet is wondrous. It lets us s...