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When you learn to give, it starts to flow, and the others around you are soft and giving and a family can generate a lot of joy! ...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: The core idea of the unschooling philosophy is that humans are born learners. That's what John Holt observ...

If the only right choice is the mother's choice, then the mother will win when she gets her way, but the child will lose. The only...

Colleen Prieto wrote, in response to someone having written "We are adhering to a culture of self sufficiency" : All thre...

Read a little, try a little, wait a while, watch. Reading does nothing without action. Action does nothing without patience and observa...

Usually it looks like we're just playing around. When it doesn't look like we're playing, I work on it. Unschooling works b...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: Unschooling is the opposite of both authoritarian and hands-off parenting. It's neither about creating rule...

I love being able to see, and to share, pictures of things I have seen, or have NOT seen, in this blog. Jen Keefe's family went to N...

Sometimes wind is blowing and sometimes it's still. Usually water is wet, but in some times and places it can be ice. I have viv...

Jenny Cyphers, on principles over rules: One of the kids that live near us, said rather astonished, "you don't have any rules do ...

Unschooling is not easy to understand. Even people who are ready and really want it will take years. Read a little, try a little, wa...

Water freezes; ice melts. The sun goes down; the sun comes up. Children are still, and sit or lie down. Kids jump up and run around...

Julie: Love this! Years later I'm learning about things I thought I hated (science & math come to mind immediately) alongside my ...

Deb Lewis wrote: A child who can't trust his parents, not because of any malicious intent on the part of his parents, but because of ...

Can a person create negativity? If so, a person should be able to create positivity. Nurture and encourage and enable happiness. Hap...

Q: Is unschooling the path of least resistance? A: It depends what you're trying to resist. Deschooling for P...

Sometimes people make a conscious decision to change. All unschoolers have done that and then worked consciously to create and to sta...

Karen James wrote: If parents wonder whether they should be more generous with their children, I would say yes. The more t...

A good project for this season: Maybe send a thank-you note. Not to me. Send a thank-you note to someone who has helped you this ...

Life produces some fragile, fleeting things. Cass Kotrba photographed frost so beautifully that you can see the individual ic...