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Janine Davies wrote: Victory is what it feels like—the biggest victory in my life so far. I am my own healer and validator. Unschool...

JoyfullyRejoycing SandraDodd.com/unschooling Those sites exist so that people can explore unschooling, but reading those pages d...

Sonya Austin wrote: When our children take the space they need in order to experience things, it doesn't make our lives as paren...

Ben Lovejoy wrote: Once upon a time in the hamlet of Columbia in the province of Carolina, South, lived a woman of extraordinary gif...

"Intellectually, I got unschooling all the way from the very beginning. The part that took more time was relationships and wholen...

I think parents only have so many vetos they can use with their kids before the kids start ignoring them, and I think maybe those vetos sh...

It's easy for people to "yeah, but..." themselves way off track. It's harder to relax into considering that maybe th...

Leah Rose wrote: I have come to see that it helps peace and learning to notice when we are clinging or tightening around an identity, ...

Unschooling should be about peaceful, supportive relationships, about modelling consideration and thoughtful choicemaking, and about l...

If a person's life is compartmentalized into learning and not learning, then they have a part of them that is "not-learni...

Entries are literally and figuratively everywhere, past and future and in a minute. When you see a place, a path, or think of something...

Some people homeschool because they think schools teach too much and aren't controlling the kids well enough. Some people hom...

I've always been uncomfortable with the idea of "self-regulation." Regulation has to do with rules—creating and enforcing r...

Robyn Coburn wrote: I think that any time we get caught up in the idea that the child is "being disrespectful" (self-focused ...

Have purpose, don't just go through thoughtless motions. That was a comment by me/Sandra in a discussion on facebook once but a go...

Ripandeep Saran wrote: When I was 14 years old, I asked the leader of the Sikh ashram I was visiting what to do when I am feeling blue an...

Unschooling takes a long time to learn. Rushing a child to understand something complicated while the parent isn’t even looking in the ri...

Pam Sorooshian wrote: Looking back, we can often see the path pretty clearly. But we can't look ahead and know what the path is goi...

If someone is being entertained, that person is thinking. That person is analyzing SOMETHING, and every trail made in the brain is a reus...

What SHOULD I be doing as an unschooling parent? More. Better than school Making memories Unschooling Very Well Sand...