Just Add Light and Stir

Dede wrote: I finally let go of my control issue around TV and video. In its place I found trust which created a deepening of love a...

Vickie Bergman , some of her nice analogy about unschooling being like riding bikes: Your own bicycle is powered by your own legs, ste...

A homeschooler wrote and asked how I fit learning opportunities into our lives. At first I had that feeling that I didn't understa...

Jenny Cyphers wrote: The striking difference for me, and the real beauty of unschooling compared to school at home and school is th...

Everyone who helps others unschool or to live peacefully with their children is contributing more to the peace of the world than anyon...

Nicole Kenyon wrote, December 25, 2020: My husband came home the other day saying he had the perfect Christmas present for our 9 ye...

If parents want to be unschoolers, they need to figure out how to be better parents, because it's the relationship between the par...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: When kids know their parents are on their sides, when parents help them find safe ways to do what they want to...

Sandra Dodd (in 2017—general discussion, not unschooling): There is a natural need in people to know the "us" and the ...

In 2012, I responded to a mom's frustration about how to limit, or not, TV and computer use. There are many benefits to letti...

We didn't have problems with our unlimited turns, but it's because nobody ever played longer than he really wanted to just to ke...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: It helped me think more clearly about unschooling when I realized unschooling isn’t something kids do. Unsc...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: Schooling works by pouring expertly selected bits of the world into a child. (Or trying to, anyway!) Unschoo...

My Favorite things about Unschooling You can do it at home! Your kids are there! It makes all of life a peaceful learning lab....

Look directly at your child. Practice watching your child without expectations. Try to see what he is really doing, rather than seeing...

When you make a deal with someone—and I don't care if it's marriage, partnership, a little business, a lemonade stand, going o...

Hema Bharadwaj , in an interview: Sandra: If you could give all unschoolers something by magic to help them ...

Pam Sorooshian wrote: It would be very useful if parents stop using the term "screen time." It is insulting and adversarial....

Response to this: I tend to err on the side of just spending time together. Don't think of it as erring. And don't think of it ...

Meredith wrote something in April 2011 about what the grandparents want... It's helpful to keep in mind that one of the big thi...