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Parts of a longer, fast-paced story of twelve-year-old Holly Dodd, who asked me this: "Will you read me the whole Bible?" ...

Sandra Dodd: Move gradually into unschooling ideas—VERY gradually if your partner isn't interested. Until you understand it better yo...

"Temporary Christmas..."—aren't they all? Temporarily we can see fun. We can share thoughts. Allow joy to flow, when...

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

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: Wanting your family to be happy, joyful and learning seems a perfectly fine goal! But you won't get t...

For young children, costumes and decorations can make them feel powerful, or beautiful, and a little afraid—in a fun way, if the adult...

Set it out, don't try to shove it in. That line is from small talk I gave once, to dads only. I was talking about logic—to dra...

Pam Sorooshian: What do I regret? EVERY minute that I spent worrying over whether the house was clean. That would be my biggest regret...

A person can choose to have choices. A person can choose not to choose; still a choice, but they think of it as "no choice...

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

Unschooling is difficult. It's a luxury. It's not a guarantee, it's not a right, it's not a product anyone can sell you,...

Pam Sorooshian wrote: Lots of people go through their whole lives never feeling like they had choices in many many areas of their lives ...

In your head, you have some repeating-loop messages. Some are telling you you're doing a good job, but I bet some of them are not. Som...

I wrote this verse for a Christmas card we made when my children were eight, five, and three years old. Abundant joy,    a special toy,  ...

Deb Lewis wrote: Someone once suggested that having a joyful life as one of my goals was potentially damaging to my son because he ...

Part of being your child's partner is helping her learn how to be in the world, how to live comfortably and fully and considerately a...

Meredith wrote: Generally speaking, kids are Busy people. Its good to see that and value what they are doing. When we don't, i...

One of the best first steps a family can take toward moving a giant step toward being more positive is to note and back off about anyone ...

I love museums. Museums of any sort are special to me, and sometimes I'm thinking about the building or whose idea it was or where the...

"No one likes a sandwich made by a martyr." —Diana Jenner "It's hard to swallow around a big lump of guilt." —S...