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Try to embrace "very random" so unschooling will work optimally! 🙂 Even for kids who are in school, the more parents talk ...

I (Sandra) wrote: Try not to go against nature, when you're aiming to "be natural." [Later in that same discussion] ...

An angsty mom wrote: I know in the nitty gritty of my heart, I'm not okay with a life philosophy that centers on "if it'...

Kids who haven't been to school are different, but here is Joyce Fetteroll 's advice for helping kids deschool when needed: ...

It's not uncommon (historically) for children to eat first, and separately, and food kids like, and then for the adults and teens ...

To call some food "junk" is an artificial division. When food is given the status of a religion (the place where sa...

Lea Goin wrote: I just realized my children turn down sweets all the time! I've tried to maintain a candy bowl in hands reach ...

"Building an unschooling nest" is a phrase that has come to mean maintaining a safe, rich, happy environment in which learni...

Schuyler Waynforth wrote: I make lots of food. I like cooking. I like baking. And Simon and Linnaea mostly prefer my food to store f...

Unschoolers have sometimes found that their children know whether they're hungry, and what they're hungry for, in the absence ...

Joyce, in response to someone who wrote "I want to scream": If you could choose between making your children smile and m...

Dominique Trussler wrote, years ago: This morning I brought my 8-year-old son a snack as he was busy playing on the computer, and he said ...

Be as gentle and sweet as you can be. Practice breathing and making the better choice, so you will be confident that you are being tho...

I think we were discussing offering an older child money to read to a younger child, or to play with them at their level; kind of an o...

Each child is an individual. If you let them choose from many foods, they won't eat things that make them sick, or make them fe...

Sylvia Woodman wrote: One of the most frequent questions I hear is, "What does a typical day look like in your house?" It...

It's very easy to control food when you have a home of young children. Most young children aren't going to question the choices yo...

What I...do, is to help people live calmly and peacefully. It always interests me when people want me to stop doing that, to take it b...

Lissa wrote, in response to Jenny C... (link below to more): I know exactly what you mean. There's getting (intellectual unders...

Meredith Novak responded to a mom worried about a child only doing one thing: It's important to note that he's Not doing One ...