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"Being happy has never diminished my partnership, and being miserable has never enhanced it." —Beth Fuller SandraDodd.com/quot...

Pam Sorooshian wrote: I'm not saying to prepare a lesson on cactus or coconuts or pineapples. I'm saying that if you're not a...

Thinking of "better choices" instead of "RIGHT choices" is an easy step to a world of other easy steps. Make the B...

Where you live is different. It might not seem different to you, but it's not like all the rest of the world. Manhole covers are d...

This story has just been added to my site. It was told in 2003, when Marty was fourteen and Holly was twelve or so. My husband'...

"Where joy is, you will find learning. Where joy is, you will find flow." —Clare Kirkpatrick Parent paragrap...

We can't live in "how will I survive this?" time nor can we live well by pining for that past we've already lived through....

There is personal growth in quietly providing what is needed. The world is made better by those who notice and attend to needs. S...

Connections are the best part of learning, in unschooling, in life, for fun. But if it’s too noisy too often, a quiet moonrise over a lake w...

About "un," the term came out in the season of 7-Up, the Uncola. Commercials, billboards, cute campaign, not a big deal. So as 7-U...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: It's said Alexander the Great founded at least 20 cities named Alexandria. So 2300 years ago if you were to as...

One of the best things about radical unschooling is how much parents can learn, if they are willing. Sometimes, a little ...

"I was amazed at how much of the world came to life when they were free, and encouraged, to immerse themselves in their deep...

History is here—in the appliances and furniture we have in our homes, the medications and bandages and toothpastes we use, popular music and...

When a question about meditation came up, years back, Caren Knox shared: I've done it different ways, at different times of my l...

"More and more I'm discovering it's not so much about giving, as it is about building, and, as Sandra has said, investing. You ...

There is a "when" and a "where" to activities. Soon, at my house, we'll be inside trying to stay cool, but a differe...

"This is better. It’s just better." —Jen Keefe To read about what Jen found that was better, her writing is que...

Some people seem to think unschooling takes them through a portal to some alternate universe. Stay in the real world! Both feet, direc...

If a child doing something harmless and happy is thwarted by a parent spouting false doom, the parent is the problem. The game isn't t...