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Sandra Dodd: Principles produce all kinds of answers where rules fail. Alex Polikowsky: Some people come to unschooling and in the...

Deb Lewis wrote: If your daughter doesn't want to leave something interesting to go to the table to eat, take food to her. Sit wi...

Playing a video game is not violent. Playing a game is sitting on a couch with a remote control. Shaming a kid who wants to sit on t...

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...

The really good thing about happiness is that it’s portable. It’s cheap. It doesn’t need a safety deposit box or an inheritance. Yo...

Unschooling parents who have spent years giving their children freedom and options have learned that limitations create need while freedom...

Colleen Prieto wrote: I was thinking the other day about husbands and chores and how many people I've heard say that it shouldn...

Eva Witsel wrote: I can spend my energy on limiting my child's world so that he will be safe and happy or I can spend my energy on ...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: One thing that keeps me responding after all these years is because I understand. To me it makes perfect sense ...

All that needs to happen for years to pass peacefully is for a series of moments to pass peacefully. All you need to do to have annivers...

Laying "have to" on our kids, or on ourselves or on outsiders is less useful and healthy than looking at rights and choices and...

Think of times you've wanted to hide, or just plain hid. Me, lately, from sunshine, from projects, from people. Think about when it...

Children sometimes see things "wrong," or from the perspective of someone small and looking up, or just new to the world. Rather ...

I've seen hands-off, hands-up parents use various justifications for not helping a child do better. I've seen them blame othe...

Be as nice to your child as you can be, as often as you can be. Partnerships and Teams in the Family photo by Amber Ivey __

If you sit in a new place, you will see some new things. SandraDodd.com/angles photo by Sandra Dodd, of someone else's be...

"Strewing for me, is a little bit of magic. It's like the potential energy of wonder that's all stored up in something unex...

When I was 19 and "studying learning," by taking psychology and education classes, one of my more interesting professors s...

Sometimes a hard thing can be beautiful, while a soft thing might be less so. Peace isn't always quiet. Reconsider prejudices! Sandra...

Learning happens all on its own when the parents stop looking at life in a schoolish way, and can appreciate and encourage that sor...