Just Add Light and Stir

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...

A mom once wrote: Sometimes I think I've started to understand something but instead it's like an onion and there's another laye...

Some antiques are never in a store or a museum. What others show you as old and valuable might be wonderful, but be on the lookout...

A closer photo of this gate might look more limiting than this distant view. There's no fence attached, past the low places on ea...

Let it be what it is. photo by Janine Davies

Sometimes a gate is calling me to walk through it. Sometimes a gate hasn't been opened for years, but it's a pretty part of the fe...

Don't "model" and "teach." Live. You will be a giant step nearer to radical unschooling if you can see t...