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Deb wrote: If we recognize a difficult moment as one tricky moment in a day of potential great moments we're more likely to have...

Robyn Coburn wrote: Every time you feel the urge to control a choice, you can ask yourself "why?" and begin to question t...

Sandra Dodd: If there is more resentment and negativity than there is love and sweetness, that family is not succeeding at unschooli...

Jenny Cyphers wrote: Intellectually, I got unschooling all the way from the very beginning. The part that took more time was relationsh...

Written when Holly Dodd was 18 (2009), of when she was in her mid-teens: Holly has had a few jobs. One was working at a skateboard...

From responses to a charge that unschooling couldn't broaden a child's horizons: As to broadening horizons, sitting at a tab...

Can you get out of the house more? Go do different grocery stores? I've suggested this ten times over the years and some people pe...

"Intellectually, I got unschooling all the way from the very beginning. The part that took more time was relationships and wholen...

Once when a mom wished her child didn't love "Barney," I said I didn't love "Rugrats," but I went on to...

Renee Cabatic wrote, years ago: I place toothpaste on Xander's toothbrush at night. One night he said it was too much toothpa...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: If a parent has found something that works for their family without understanding why it worked and how much pe...

How you live in the moment affects how you live in the hour, and the day, and the lifetime. SandraDodd.com/moment photo by Holly ...

What unschoolers do to help other unschoolers is to share how they came to unschooling, and the effect it has had on their children and ...

A mom named Sara P. wrote: This is still an ongoing process for me. I had to re-train myself in a lot of ways. I had to learn a new ...

Near you there are many many plain and simple things that you might overlook for being commonplace, everyday, throwaway backgrou...

Sometimes light does fancy tricks, outside, or inside, with refractions, reflections, shadows and shimmery sunbeams. There are other ligh...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: They won't be three forever! Their understanding and needs will grow and change as they get older. Convention...

When one person says "I like science" and another says "I don't like science," I remember school science textbook...

Wash dishes because you want to. What would make you want to? Love. Generosity. A desire to have an available kitchen, a clean slate, ...

This gate was made for an open-air museum in The Netherlands, in a style that's called "wattle," in England. I like it...