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"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. ...

One of the nicest thing I do for my husband is to withhold criticism. I could (and used to, when we were younger) say too much, comm...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: It's important to observe radically unschooled kids rather than kids in general because kids in general ar...

"Radical Unschooling" is unschooling fully, from the roots, from the principles, extended into all of one's life and be...

Seasons change, and creatures look for a place to be, near something to eat. If you're providing food and shelter for your ch...

Don't have so much of past and future in your head that you can't live now. SandraDodd.com/random photo by S...

Should people live in the water in the middle of the ocean, or should they live on land as far as possible away from an ocean? Quickly! Wha...

This is post #5004! #5003, yesterday's, had links that didn't work, so I'm back with a thank you for reading, an apology for ye...

You might be able to see a lot without moving. SandraDodd.com/look photo by Deb Lewis