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Patti Schmidt wrote: It seems to me that "phonics" essentially serves the purpose of "teaching" a child to rea...

Can you get out of the house more? Go do different grocery stores? I've suggested this ten times over the years and some people pe...

Karen James wrote: Being able to understand and talk about unschooling well, with anyone, is invaluable. That kind of confidence helps ...

Just breathe. Don't waste a moment of enjoying who they are by worrying about who they might become. —Judy Vastine SandraDodd.c...

Unschoolers live in the same world as other people. If you plan ahead, you can live in that world even better than most people do. If yo...

"Your role isn't to set up a path for them to follow but to set up the environment for them to explore." —Joyce Fet...

Arbitrary rules will never be better for unschooling, nor for any relationship, than thoughtful choices will be. Unschooling parents mus...

Yesterday's post had a song to listen to, if you clicked through to the blog. It didn't show in e-mail. Check again, if you mis...

Karen James wrote: Real learning is subtle...like a breath. —Karen James (that quote in a larger context) Becoming Confident photo...

If I "give my children freedom" in a situation, it's because I had some leeway or rights myself. I cannot "give them f...

Please don't buy into the "you have to finish what you start" stuff. If you started screaming or spanking, would you pres...

If you can start dismantling all the adversarial parts of your relationships, there won't be things to complain about. Neither you nor...

Here's a way to gauge your unschooling progress: Can you stop learning, at your house? Can you put the pause on unschooling? Once a ...

Life has some inconvenient realities. Be happy anyway! Admire the beautiful birds, but watch your step. Reality as an environmen...

Knowing that we live in the flow of change is something anyone interested in learning or in history, or in learning history, might wan...

Shelter your kids from what you know is ugly. Shelter me too, if I'm around. It's really okay to "cherry pick" in regard t...

Trust and respect go together. Someone who is trustworthy will be respected. SandraDodd.com/trust photo by Julie D.

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: The basic idea of unschooling is that we learn what we need by using it. And that's exactly how kids learn to spe...

Thinking of "better choices" instead of "RIGHT choices" is an easy step to a world of other easy steps. ...

If you practice noticing and experiencing joy, if you take a second out of each hour to find joy, your life improves with each rememb...