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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 one...

Deb Lewis wrote: My mom was a kind person, but she was a negative person. Something was always wrong, something was always going to...

Jen Keefe wrote: I’ve found it fascinating (I don’t use that word lightly) how many different things are connecting for me, as an...

"It's wonderful how parenting this way heals parts of our own past unexpectedly." —Jen Keefe The quote is from a stor...

Different families have different resources, but here are two gifts any of us could give to someone today: 1. A glass of water , to so...

When someone wrote, "We don't value TV, we live our values by not having one," I responded: I value input, information an...

If you want unschooling to work just because you stick the curriculum under the couch, it won't! Get the world swirling around you (f...

Leah Rose wrote: I've been thinking about that saying "All things in moderation." Next time someone says it to me, ...

In a discussion, someone challenged the idea of kids have options even about what they wanted to eat, and how. She wrote: "Ea...

Here is the deal, about unschooling: Unschooling works the same way for any child, regardless of his particulars. Each child i...

A mom named Hannah wrote: Unschooling has definitely changed my life for the better. Our family life is more peaceful and happy. I'...

Schuyler Waynforth wrote: You start by learning about your children. You start by playing with them. By hanging out and listening to them. ...

If something is good for a moment, it doesn't take a bunch of planning, and it doesn't need to be reported or documented. It can ...

Start noticing the learning available all around you. There's oodles of science in cooking. Why does heat make the white of an egg turn ...

Families who share the ways in which unschooling has improved their families and their lives are practicing a kind of transparency that ...

I always like the idea that most things are many things. Language is both too big and too small, sometimes. If a chart is made of fo...

Pam Sorooshian wrote: It is natural for people to learn—each in their own way. It is natural for children to want to understand th...

Today, three times, do something a little bit better. Are you cutting an apple? Slow down and do something unexpected, somethi...

Goldilocks and The Three Bears is an odd story, but for very little children what sticks is the "too hot; too cold; just right" pa...