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Joyce Fetteroll wrote: It usually takes a long time before people new to unschooling stop looking for new rules to replace old ones. ...

Deb Lewis wrote: If your daughter doesn't want to leave something interesting to go to the table to eat, take food to her. Sit wi...

FIRST read and understand and have a realistic grasp of the principles and start saying yes to your children for sensible and good and...

Take a little time to try out new ideas up next to your old ones. Thinking about why you are where you are, thoughtwise, is a good too...

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...