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Gratitude is good for the soul, for the spirit, for the mind, for the heart. Negativity and discouragement spiral down a hole. ...Wh...

Deb Lewis wrote: If you take care of your house happily, even if you don't ever make any real progress or feel it's getting re...

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

"It feels so much better to be doing something active to try to improve life than it did sitting around worrying about it!!" —C...

Without becoming too critical or cynical, maybe consider, with your children sometimes, changes in knowledge (the platypus, Mars, Pluto, le...

Jenny Cyphers wrote, in 2014: It's such a big part of our culture to get it done now, fix it all now, make it happen now, do, do...

One country's trash is another country's mysterious antique treasure. SandraDodd.com/museum photo by Sandra Dodd

Nobody kept their kids home for 18 or 20 years just discussing life with them, hanging out, playing games. We probably wouldn't be ...

"The unschooling environment I create at home is just a wonderful collection of the best examples I have from the past and the ...

When our schoolish expectations start to dissolve, learning floods in from all directions. Learning for Fun (interview) p...