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Pam Sorooshian wrote: Unschooling is not leaving kids to their own devices until they show an interest in learning a given subject...

What does a tree need for its leaves and twigs to develop more? What does a cat need for its brain to develop more? They need a lac...

Karen James wrote: When you look at your children, see *them*, not the ideas of peace, joy, success or failure. Notice ...

Peace is not an element "that can neither be created nor destroyed." Peace is entirely a condition and a mood. It's very, v...

Any subjects leads to every other subject, and every other connection of any sort. Rather than sorting things out with your children, tr...

Live your life in such a way that other people will trust you. When you make decisions, make generous, selfless decisions so that others ...

In a life where the goals are partnership, good relationships between parents and children, and an atmosphere of constant curiosity...

Sandra Dodd, from 2012 [so add some years to the number]: Twenty-five years ago, my husband said it wasn't fair that we were cultura...

Lots of the photos I have these days are of paths. I love them. They're taken by people who were there, about to walk that ...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: If your default answer is no—by the *kids'* standards even if *you* feel you say yes a lot—then they're...

Jenny Cyphers wrote: I compared homeschooling to school a lot for a long time. It seemed so big and relevant. Then, when Chamille was ...

Someone wrote once: "I really have to be vigilant on myself and try not to control." I was amused, but responded, in par...

Confidence in unschooling can't come from other people's accounts. It can only come from seeing one's own children relaxing ...

When school is no longer a part of the child's life, it's good to turn away from the school and let it fade into the distant past...

Life will be better for all involved if you don't label your children's intelligence, or processing speed, or likelihood to rever...

It's kind of schoolish, the idea that the more one reads the more one knows. Unschooling is one of those things that isn't accomp...

I have comforted my "inner child" by comforting my own children. I have felt like a stronger, better person by being a stronge...

Unschooling is a profoundly optimistic decision and that it involves a huge commitment to living a very optimistic life. I think it is ...

Improved is better than failed. Solid and long-lasting is better than painful and disrupted. Be gentle, be careful, with your though...

This art is in the "H" of "Nothing" in the logo created by Holly Dodd in 2020. For me, it seems like a gift to me and...