Just Add Light and Stir

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...

Sabine Mellinger wrote: This is my 15 year old son with his dog. I was looking at this picture and thinking about how one of the m...

Today is the 13th Anniversary of the first Just Add Light and Stir post. The 14th year begins today. The parts of the post are a photo ...

"I didn't get it. I thought I did. But it's like mowing the lawn, or dishes, or laundry, or being their mom...it will alway...

Principles instead of rules means not to decide in advance what you're going to do, but to know what you believe and what your prior...

To say "yes" reflexively is no more mindful than saying "no" thoughtlessly. —Sylvia Woodman Mindful and Thoughtf...

I have heard many stories of the rearrangements of families with unschoolers who are in their late teens or early twenties, and a young ad...

I understand why photos of food are popular. For years, cookbooks and magazines have tried for good food photos, but they're not alwa...

Someone inquiring about unschooling once complained: "You seem to be saying that the two priorities are mutually exclusive." ...

I like photos with reflections. Sometimes they're clear and sometimes they're interestingly changed. Always, though, you see the...

No human in all the history of the world has, or could have guessed right every time, about what to say, how much to say, how quickly, in...