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So what IS trivia, then? For school kids, trivia is (by definition) a waste of time. It’s something that will not be on the test. It’s “extr...

It's bad to make a religion of unschooling. It's good to see all the logic and practicality in it, and to incorporate things gra...

If you can choose to be more aware over less aware, that will help. One aspect of awareness is working on your ability to be quiet...

Karen James wrote: I asked the same question a few years back. I got an excellent, but unexpected reply. I was told if I thought I wasn&#...

Pam Sorooshian wrote: Lots of people go through their whole lives never feeling like they had choices in many many areas of their lives ...

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 ...

Lots of the photos I have these days are of paths. I love them. They're taken by people who were there, about to walk that ...

I like traditional construction, I like stiles over fences or walls, and I like paths. This one is in Montana, and has a bridge over...

Few things have only one name, one use, or one aspect. People have different roles and relationships, skills and traits. The same t...

There was a time when the only way for a kid to get information from outside his home and neighborhood was books. (Think Abraham Lincoln,...

People DO think of next week. They think of last week. But they're doing their thinking from inside their present selves. Balanc...

Strength doesn't need to be high-tech or glitzy. Plain, thoughtful underpinnings and principles can be enough to quietly strengthen a f...

"Shine a light ahead for them, and lend them a hand, but don't drag or push them." —Pam Sorooshian How to Be a Good Un...

From 2002: One of my favorite things about my kids, and what makes unschooling easy with them, is that they're not cynical or crit...

"You can't give what you don't have," some people say, and if you want your children to give generosity and kindness and p...

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

Once I jokingly complained that a package of citric acid was marked "chemical free." Several people joked entertainingly, but a ...

Being a good parent is not martyrdom. It's this: Being (in essence, in life, in thought, in action) a good (not bad, not average, but...

Pam Sorooshian wrote in 2007: I never "got it" about chores until it was really almost too late.... What I regret ...

Unschoolers are not sitting in the back corner of the homeschooling world doing nothing. We're doing something direct and profound. S...