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Schuyler Waynforth wrote: [A relative once said] that he thought science was one of those things that must be taught in school. He f...

This is a photo of a concrete pad at our house, between a wall and a car. It won't look like that now, but one day it did, from refl...

The middle of a longer article: They grew up with exposure, context, experiences and knowledge of those things mathematics is design...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: Some people hold onto the fear that kids need schoolish math to learn math. They need to experience their ki...

Some people confuse respect and courtesy. Some people confuse nicey-niceness with respect. But real respect changes action and affects...

On a scale from dull and dusty to bright and shiny, where is your life? How much of the happy outside world is flowing in? How much ...

Make the better choice. SandraDodd.com/betterchoice photo by Lisa Jonick, of her chickens avoiding snow __

Marcia Miller wrote: Wooden pattern blocks are wonderful in so many ways. You can create designs with them, build with them, and play g...

"I don't believe sugar is addictive. I believe some people naturally like sweets more than others and I believe our attitu...

What unschoolers do to help other unschoolers is to share how they came to unschooling, and the effect it has had on their children and ...

"Video gaming is so much more than most people see when they are standing on the outside, looking through the window they call ...

Through playing, children learn physics and dance and balance and color theory, but you don't need to use any of those terms. They wil...

If a child is peacefully asleep and doesn't have to be somewhere at a certain time, let him sleep! If he stayed up late playing vide...

This photo is the background for the only "O" on the Learn Nothing Day logo. Colleen Prieto wrote: Our son knows that if he...

I wish I could tell everyone that if there's some part of Sandra's site they think they "don't need" to read, RE...

Art made of light and shadow—look for it at your house, in stores, restaurants, in friends' houses, too! SandraDodd.com/light pho...

Control implies one KNOWS the right answer and if he's not "out of control" or "lacking self control," there will...

In thinking of mathematics, I operated on the assumption that our children might be more pattern-oriented than I am (spatial and logical int...

Alex Arnott wrote: Principles of unschooling that have helped me relate differently with my own highly active nervous system: expanding a...

Forget the linear approach to learning we grew up with. For instance, we learned that the way to learn is to read "all the important...