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"It's wonderful how parenting this way heals parts of our own past unexpectedly." —Jen Keefe The quote is from a stor...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: Rather than shooting for perfect, why not aim for better? Perfect you're bound to miss and you will have fail...

Decision time isn't about what you will do next year or for the rest of your child's life. Decision time is about what you will do...

When you choose to say something or to wait, think of which will be more patient, or less critical. If you decide to say something, t...

If you look, you might see things! Thinking "that's just a pumpkin" might make you miss the star that was there for a litt...

There are paths that lead away from unschooling and paths that lead toward it. There are ways to do it better and ways to torpedo it irre...

If you feel helpless, you are. If you feel powerless, you are. Make conscious choices, in little ways, in ways that make your family w...

This photo is the background for the "T" on the Learn Nothing Day logo. "Teaching" isn't always about learning. ...

Though I've seen some beautiful rainbows, and some doubles, I have missed more than I've seen. That can't be helped. If I pl...

Same boring, stupid, same-old... Oh, wait! A Quonset hut, back there, with a side building. Look at the tumbleweed. That attachment lo...

If somebody said, "I want to walk to Santa Fe from Albuquerque," it matters which direction they go. It matters that they have w...

Some of you should be seeing an improved mailing. Our replacement for the longtime "feedburner" was not as clean or as pretty as ...

If you need an image to assist with creating a quiet moment, to center yourself, to let your thoughts swirl more slowly, and settle quie...

Unschooling should be rich, flowing and mindful living where learning abounds. Too many people see "living" as nothing more tha...

Pam Laricchia wrote: "I love writing. The process of throwing down my thoughts and ideas about unschooling onto the page and then rethi...

Life produces some fragile, fleeting things. Cass Kotrba photographed frost so beautifully that you can see the individual ic...

Find something to smile about. Beginners, aim for once per day—one extra smile. More experienced unschoolers, raise that to several a d...

Tina Bragdon wrote: For all you negative people out there, you really can change, but you have to want to change. That concept of cha...

Who you are, no one else can be. Who you are now is not who you were before. Who you are today is not who you will be...

He just wouldn't have blossomed in his own natural way if I had tried to make him be some sort of tree he wasn't. Trees grow fr...