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Try to embrace "very random" so unschooling will work optimally! 🙂 Even for kids who are in school, the more parents talk ...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: It helped me think more clearly about unschooling when I realized unschooling isn’t something kids do. Unsc...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: The first step is finding something that's better than what you have. The second step is wanting to chang...

Joanne Lopers wrote: There is something oh so sweet about a child doing something without being asked. Vega who is 8, cleaned out ou...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: It's important to observe radically unschooled kids rather than kids in general because kids in general ar...

I am so certain that learning comes from experiences and touching, hearing, seeing, smelling and tasting that in light of natural lear...

Tina B/canuckgal wrote in 2008: We continue to come to this life bit by bit as well. I think for us it is an extension of attachm...

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

Can you control your child's emotions? No. Can you affect your child's emotions? Yes. Everything you do, while you ha...

Su Penn wrote: A couple of months ago, my four-year-old and I had been wrangling all day—we just couldn't get into each other...

Though Holly wasn't reading, her vocabulary was sophisticated and she was fascinated by the history of and connectedness of word...

Meredith Novak wrote: It's good to know that it's not necessary to totally understand everything you read (or listen to) the...

So they say, "Okay, well I have heard and I've read that people have done... something? and then they get good results?"...

Meredith Novak wrote: "Your child is not you"—that one stopped me cold, way back, when I was resisting, thinking it Al...

We LOVE our lives right now! Each day is truly an adventure and a place of peace and security for my children now. I hope that those who...

Clarissa wrote, one day in 2011, of a relative's visit: On the first day being with us, my aunt said, "Don't you two...

Allow children to reject food they don’t like, or that doesn’t smell like something they should eat, or doesn’t look good to them. Don’t ext...

If someone really does want to unschool, it's going to take looking at her own ideas, terminology, and attitudes really closely, ...

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...