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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...

Things look different in the dark. It's understandable for a kid to be afraid of the dark. A little explore might be fun, though, so...

With the right set-up, wind or water or sun can create power. Natural things can cause big changes. When unschooling is working well, qu...

Help children live playful lives by being a playful adult. Play with words, and ideas; play with shape, form, and color. Let children ...

There are machines, conveyances, tools, that are so beautiful that people make models of them, or working toys for children. Front-end l...

Probably some families make rules so that their kids will learn to follow rules. It's possible. Too much practice can kill the joy, t...

To a question about how to move from rules to principles and choices: Gradually, without fanfare, be more positive and more supporti...

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...

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...

New unschoolers are often afraid. If you feel fear, that's natural. If you've taken a child out of school, there is still a scho...

Sometimes light does fancy tricks, outside, or inside, with refractions, reflections, shadows and shimmery sunbeams. There are other ligh...

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