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Meredith Novak wrote: A great deal of parenting "wisdom" is made up of things "everyone knows" because every...

Gail Higgins, an unschooling mom, wrote of this photo: "Opossum staredown. Surprise photo op 😀" It reminds me of those unex...

Set it out, don't try to shove it in. That line is from small talk I gave once, to dads only. I was talking about logic—to dra...

Instead of requiring that my kids had to hold my hand in a parking lot, I would park near a cart and put some kids in right away, or t...

If we wait to see where a child's gaze falls, and wait a while for a question or comment to form, our observation and readiness to ass...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: Learning is defined not just as sucking in information about something the child is interested in. Learning is...

Facebook Memories showed me that someone on another continent had quoted me, years ago: Learning does not teach us, but from learning we...

"Thoughts and opinions that don't match reality should be rethought." —Joyce Fetteroll SandraDo...

"I made my marriage very important to me. I chose to be very engaged in my marriage as a part of raising children." — Schuyler Way...

Someone asked: Is Unschooling Exhausting? My first thought is "compared to what?" Is unschooling more exhausting than having a ch...

Meredith wrote: If you want to establish good habits, be gentle with your kids' feelings. Make their lives warmer and softer ...

More people talk about peace than think about it. Many people are full of peaceful platitudes, and fury that others aren't...

Supporting someone or something requires strength and confidence. Support is holding something up. Support is upholding something. ...

Being a child's partner in exploring the world is valuable in more ways than people can imagine, if they haven't done it. Sandr...

I've always felt strongly that unschooling should be about the ideas and not about the individuals. No one book, website, sp...

Unschooling isn't another version of a curriculum, that will take four hours a day. Unschooling is a different way to live and to see...

Happy, supported, trusted kids don't make the same choices as unhappy, controlled kids. —Joyce Fetteroll SandraDodd.com/eating...

"Just a reminder: your kids are whole people. They're having experiences even when you're not there. They lea...

This regards the way I helped make peace between kids when they argued: The reason I used the method of speaking to each child separ...

Many parents want to change the child, instead of changing the child's environment by (in large part) changing themselves. ...