Just Add Light and Stir

A lot of parents have come to discussions and asked, is it okay? My kid is watching this movie over and over. Or my kid only wants to...

Shan Burton wrote: If he had a bedtime, we would have missed our 2:00 am chat about My Little Pony, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Shakespe...

This is the end of something about a collection of pessimistic statements by parents, about kids: How many millions of times more th...

A mom once wrote: I am ready for his Obsession with these [Yu-Gi-Oh] cards to be gone. A dad named Lyle responded: He's learn...

Karen James wrote in 2012: My nine-year-old son ran into the kitchen yesterday while I was fixing a snack for us to take back to our g...

Movies touch and show just about everything in the world. There are movies about history and movies that are history. There are mov...

Someone asked, once: How do you feel about the word "permissive" to describe unschooling and the lifestyle surrounding it? (I...

Deb Lewis's words: You don't get another chance to be the mom to these kids right now, today. When they are grown and gone from ...

Schuyler Waynforth wrote: Today, in the car, as we drove to the swimming pool, I was talking to David about how I can't think o...

How do you apportion your patience, attention, courtesy, time, money, material help, respect? Those sorts of decisions make you who...

Hema Bharadwaj wrote: I can't begin to say everything I feel about video games... from my beginning ambivalence / aversion / ann...

Don't worry about what kids choose to do. Make sure they have lots of choices, and don't discriminate between what you think m...

Jen Keefe wrote: Getting to know my kids and subsequently all the amazingly cool "nerdy" things I never would have learned ab...

Learning is about connections. And others can't make those connections for you. You bring learning in; it is not inserted. Some peo...

Sometimes when a child is recovering from paucity, he hoards. Sometimes when a parent has been changeable and inconsistent, a child can...

If an adult is using a television set, or a laptop computer, or a smartphone, and somebody asks them what they are doing they will say...

PLAY is the work of childhood. Play IS the work of childhood. Play is THE work of childhood. Play is the WORK of childhood ori...

Me/Sandra, in a discussion once: Don't post what you're not able or willing to defend. That's not a rule for this group, it...

De-sludging one's thoughts can be helped by noticing every little good thing one does, that others do, that happens by chance. Gathe...

A story from when Kirby was in his late teens: Kirby was reading aloud the other night from a gaming manual to that big batch of guys who...