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"When we can we should always do more, offer more, think more, and make our bit of the world as big and full as we can for our kids. Ou...

Sandra's writing from 1993: People want to see the first step and hear the first words of their babies, they say, when they don't ...

"Fill your house with peace, toys, interesting things, good food, and love. Create abundance, not scarcity, even if you have v...

Touch someone, or something, in a gentle, thoughtful way. Feel with your fingers, or cheek, or hand the warmth or smoothness or softness of...

Let your children make discoveries with their own new eyes. Don't show-and-tell them into a helpless stupor. Be with them, pay att...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: It's the essence of every story: The protagonist has a need. He finds ways around what stands between him a...

"The best thing that any parent can do is to make their life with and their relationship with their children as good and as happy and a...

Unschoolers live in the same world as other people. If you plan ahead, you can live in that world even better than most people do. If yo...

Deb Lewis, about unschoolers' difficulty with parental disapproval: "What I discovered is that the people who love *you* will lo...

When stress comes and you need a break, sometimes bringing to mind one shining moment, however small, will help. Remember, if you can,...

Remember that your children will also experience flow. If you interrupt them while they're playing Rock Band or drawing or spinning...

Pam Sorooshian, in a 2009 chat/interview, wrote: Every time someone starts thinking they should do something because someone else said i...

Pam Sorooshian, on her daughters' experiences in college: > Unschooling seemed to have given them HUGE advantages in college. They we...