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A mom named Angela wrote: A gentler touch with ourselves, and others, is the best way for genuine improvement. You can’t yell at a ca...

Debbie Harper wrote: When the environment is contributing to a child's anxiety, improve the environment, rather than seeking to i...

The idea of "self discipline" isn't as helpful to understanding unschooling as the idea of making mindful choices is. It&#...

Pam Sorooshian, on being a child's friend: There is nothing wrong with wanting to be your child's friend. Do what it takes to ear...

Gwen (willow_selene) wrote: When Megan was between two and three she would pick an avocado at the beginning of most shopping trips. Then...

Natasha wrote, to help a new unschooler: One beautiful aspect of radical unschooling is truly living today with our children, right no...

Joyce Fetteroll, responding to a fear-filled mom: While I'm a big fan of science and have a sciency degree, in terms of helping ...

I have comforted my "inner child" by comforting my own children. I have felt like a stronger, better person by being a stronge...

The difference between poverty and abundance is sometimes the ability to see what one has. There have been times when I didn't have...

If people want you to be disdainful of your children or to treat them harshly, just say no . The Big Book of Unschooling , page ...

Find the best in each moment, the best moments in each hour, and by focusing on what is sweet and good, you will help others see the swee...

Pam Sorooshian, to a frustrated participant in a discussion once: We have long experience with people new to unschooling, and we know th...

The best function of the school in my head, as it turns out, is to remind me where not to dwell. I did my time in and around school, and ...

If you feel helpless, you are. If you feel powerless, you are. Make conscious choices, in little ways, in ways that make your family w...

Colleen Prieto wrote: I do my best to make sure my son is undamaged. I was told when I was a child “you haven’t earned happy yet – talk t...

I think the role of a partner is not to train the other person, not to shame the other person, not to find a time to say "I told you...

Learning to see learning is a process. It's part of deschooling, for the parents. When learning starts to show, in its natural state,...

Laurie C. wrote in a discussion once, of snow play: "On the snow days that are entirely too cold for the children to go outside, or ...

Being gentle can relieve stress. Being gentle "gentles" us. If you can recall a moment when you comforted an animal, you are ...

Yesterday I posted about how I got my kids into grocery stores , from parking lots, safely. While seeing whether the quote had been used be...