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The idea that one can learn to feel and know one's own body and choose foods accordingly is shocking to most people. I wouldn'...

If a family thinks that "having no junk food" in the house will ensure a child's health for eight or nine decades, they ...

Meredith wrote: Expecting human relationships—of any kind—to be fair and equitable is a set-up for cynicism and disappointment in th...

Christine Macdonald wrote that she and her daughter had walked to the grocery store once to pick up milk they needed for a recipe: I ...

Nicole wrote: Thank you for the ways you have helped me embrace abundance and the positive impact this has on my family. I am enteri...

If they're happy then they are! . . . . If this moment is good, it's easier for the next moment to be good. If you have thre...

Pam Sorooshian wrote: The idea that learning to read is learning to sound out or recognize words, that learning to write is learning...

Joyce wrote: : When kids feel respected, when they've experienced a life time of their desires being respected and supported to ...

Nicole Kenyon wrote: When I first talked to Jo Isaac I was like "that sounds nuts" but some of the things she said made m...

When questions come up about what to say to others who ask about what we're doing with our children, the answer is going to depend...

Learning to respect that people are different makes us better people. Assuming a child will (if you don't screw him all up) grow...

Anna Black (in Australia, so the cookies and biscuits were same and sweet): Today we were driving home from the library discuss...

There are some truisms that are spoken without real examination and I think the very vague rules against bribery of children are right ...

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 ...