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If unschooling parents can move away from hatred and fear, and toward gratitude and abundance, their children's lives are profoundly...

When a parent's choices are based on being the same or being the opposite of their own parents or of anyone else, they're reactin...

Julie, on what is needed for unschooling: "I think a lot of what makes somebody a good unschooling parent is being curious about ...

In order for parents to unschool, they need to become unschooling parents. Saying "we're unschoolers now" isn't enough...

"As we get older and our kids grow up, we eventually come to realize that all the big things in our lives are really the direct ...

Clare Kirkpatrick wrote: "I always find it helpful to really pick apart my fears and compare them to other fears I could have an...

Passageways through, between, under, within buildings can be fun, like secret portals. There are passageways otherwise, too—in ...

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...

People breathe all the time. People are not always conscious of it, though, and so their breathing simply keeps them alive. B...

"Unschooling is not child-led or child-directed learning — that makes it sound like the parent should just be a 'fol...

Even in the long term, unschooling is not about the completion of a project at all. It’s about becoming the sort of people who see a...

"Be their support system. I want so much for my kids to grow up and hear that mommy voice in their head saying positive supportive thi...

WHAT UNSCHOOLING PARENTS NEED patience enthusiasm joy curiosity ability to follow disjoint ideas and conversations willingness t...

Explore. Go with curiosity. SandraDodd.com/curiosity photo by Sandra Dodd

Explore the normal. SandraDodd.com/deblewis/discovery photo by Sandra Dodd

"The idea of unguided discovery in a school setting isn't anything like the kind of discoveries unschooling kids make. There is a ...

"Looking back, we can often see the path pretty clearly. But we can't look ahead and know what the path is going to be." —Pa...

In response to a question about commitment... My best recommendation is to create and maintain such a rich and joyful unschooling life tha...

"Make a mental note of those times when you know in your soul that this is really working well. That act helps you gain understandi...

In The Big Book of Unschooling I mentioned on one page that if someone had randomly opened the book to that page, that... Well there...