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

Su Penn wrote: A couple of months ago, my four-year-old and I had been wrangling all day—we just couldn't get into each other...

If you've adopted a set of principles and priorities, it will make decisionmaking easier. And I don't mean to choose your five...

I had a Shakespeare professor who said "Three trees make a row," to confirm a pattern when a student noticed that someth...

Deb Lewis, to a mom advocating limits and control: If you have been fighting over chores it may be a long time before she feels like he...

When people insist that "all unschooling is" is just homeschooling without a curriculum or without lessons, I don't disagre...

Early in online discussions of unschooling, pre-AOL even, Christian homeschoolers and unschoolers were in the same groups—all homeschoole...

Joyce wrote: People who look at what they have and how they can work with it find the way quicker (and are happier) than those who l...

De wrote: OH! Brainstorming ideas, treating your children like you would your spouse or friends, *OH!!* I knew that. Now I *know* that...

My kids are great at delayed gratification, all of them. They have saved money, earned money, bought small things, and large things, waite...

Ripandeep Saran wrote: When I was 14 years old, I asked the leader of the Sikh ashram I was visiting what to do when I am feeling blue an...

"The goal of unschooling is not education. It is to help a child be who she is and blossom into who she will become. Learning happens...

Probably in every culture there are ceremonial and social meals. There are times when eating food with other people creates or strengthe...

Laying down our thoughts in deference to an expert's, even if they don't seem right to us? Some people do. No people should. ...

"Video gaming is so much more than most people see when they are standing on the outside, looking through the window they call ...

Some parents express their learning as "struggle" or "challenge," but those words are antagonistic. Try to relax...

Pam Sorooshian: Learning requires a sense of safety. Fear blocks learning. Shame and embarrassment, stress and anxiety—these block lear...

Things do what they can do. Some things we affect, and others we can't. Rivers are flowing whether people are looking or not. Ch...

(Warning people away from "unconditional love," I wrote:) Probably the idea started, in the 1950’s, with Carl Rogers’ phrase ...

This photo is the background for the "G" on the lovely Learn Nothing Day logo . Children need to be protected from physical a...