Just Add Light and Stir

Look at learning. Relationships. Peace. SandraDodd.com/unschoolworld photo by Denaire Nixon

Pam Sorooshian wrote: Unschooling is not leaving kids to their own devices until they show an interest in learning a given subject...

Deb Lewis wrote: Learning is so easy, even cavemen did it. 🙂 Shell beads found in Algeria and Israel have been dated to 10...

Deb Lewis wrote: Along with the myth that a child will learn everything in school, and its companion fable that a child must go to scho...

Incremental improvement Approaching perfection, no. Perfection is subjective. Approach "better." . . . . The tool to u...

Think of some specific things that changed in you, about you, when you were deschooling. Think of a time when you hit a snag, a lump, an ...

Karen James wrote: I have spent the past three years trying to get unschooling faster. It has only been this past year, where I have slow...

Rebecca Creighton wrote: I'm grateful for this forum that is helping me learn that it (unschooling, parenting, relationships, life)...

Have purpose, don't just go through thoughtless motions. That was a comment by me/Sandra in a discussion on facebook once but a go...

When you choose to say something or to wait, think of which will be more patient, or less critical. If you decide to say something, t...

An interviewer asked "What are the essential components for unschooling to flourish? I responded: Perhaps it’s more process than...

When a mom comes along all indignant about what she "has to do" for her kids and what she is "NOT going to do" for he...

I'm not "a hugger." I avoid hugs, because they're not usually comfortable for me. I don't like massages. I'm ...

In some corner of your house, on some shelf, or windowsill, you might have a few items about which you could tell a story or two. I saw...

It's worth looking into the concept of process vs. product. People learn from figuring out how things work. One doesn't need to bu...

Janine wrote: It's exhilarating to me, the transformative power of unschooling. It is the thing that has finally drained negativity ...

In a discussion about mothers of young children imagining their actions are being witnessed, I wrote: I did that early on with my favo...

Schuyler Waynforth wrote: You start by learning about your children. You start by playing with them. By hanging out and listening to them. ...

Once a mom was being argumentative and defensive. She deleted a long discussion out of spite or frustration, but some of us rescued it. H...

Toddlers touch things. That's learning. New experiences and opportunities help them to learn. They're learning while they're...