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Sometimes I get still. That's good, because sometimes I don't, and can't. If I were that zippy all the time, my body, min...

Pam Sorooshian, the end of something great, linked below: My suggestion is that you ask yourself really honestly, is there something ...

Someone made a side comment earlier: "I hadn't thought about the difference between 'treating someone as a partner' a...

If you dwell in the empty half of your glass, life will feel empty. If you dwell in the full half of your glass, life will feel full....

Karen James wrote: Instead of being afraid of this and that in society, open your heart to wonder. Spend meaningful time with your ...

Learning and changing is fun. It's healthy. It's useful. SandraDodd.com/authentic photo by Alex Polikowsky

The idea that people learn from making choices, and that practice with small choices will help people make larger choices is a princip...

Ben Lovejoy wrote: Although I don’t presume to know what magic occurs when one follows a life filled with passions, I know that magi...

Find ways to relax, rather than to struggle. A nice outside metaphor for this is Devil's Snare, invented by J. K. Rowling for...

Someone on unschooling-[dot]-info (now defunct) was frustrated with advice that she be more gentle with her daughter and wrote: You ...

Writing is thinking clearly. For unschoolers writing will be helped by a kid having the confidence that if someone asks him about a...

I didn’t know they would be so compassionate. Partly they weren’t taught to be cold, by school prejudices. Partly, they have had a...

As long as you look for what is and isn't authentic you'll be missing what is actually happening. SandraDodd.com/authentic...

I don't like the term "authentic," of human behavior. It suggests that all those doing anything differently are false, i...

Jenny Cyphers wrote: While I don't deny that money can make an unschooling life easier, and that affording opportunities can c...

Find ways to make your lives better, happier, cheerier, if you want learning to flood in. SandraDodd.com/positivity photo by Jo...

What I...do, is to help people live calmly and peacefully. It always interests me when people want me to stop doing that, to take it b...

Our entire life created a learning environment for our children, every day, at home or out in the world. Debating How Kids Learn ph...

Being steeped in principles of peace, respect and strength has allowed me to learn that there are other possibilities. It's almost ...

People can ruin their lives with unschooling if they don't know where they're going. If they just intend to make a bunch of wild...