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Robyn Coburn wrote: Intentions matter. Guidance offered from the place of partnership and trust has a different feeling, avoids re...

Deb Lewis wrote: We played at the river yesterday. We threw rocks at floating ice chunks until we couldn't feel our fingers anym...

Some days it's fine to stay in, eat food, and look out the window. One day I looked out to see finches, and snowy mountains. Don...

Disclaimers: Unschooling doesn't ensure mathematical ability. I wrote this before Marty got a degree in economics. They were 18 o...

Deb Lewis wrote: When you have snow, or can get to snow, snowshoeing is wonderful because you don't need any special skills to str...

IF you can manage to move from cynicism and critical darkness into wonder and abundance—if you can make choices that help you live light...

Karen James wrote: It might not seem like it now, but those early years pass fast. I love all the happy memories I've made with...

A mom named Angela wrote: A gentler touch with ourselves, and others, is the best way for genuine improvement. You can’t yell at a ca...

It's easy to say if there's not an objective measure of happiness that it's not worth talking about, but each person ...

If we raise the level of peace our children expect, they will know what peace feels like. Adults need to know what peace feels like too,...

When I was in first grade I decided I wanted to be a teacher. All through school I paid attention to what teachers did and how, and...

This tractor is on the family farm in California where it has been since it was new, many years ago. Perhaps, these days, it is "yard...

History is all around us, sometimes just sitting out in the snow. When you think of history, think of engineering, toys, clothes, dishes...

Unschooling is a profoundly optimistic decision and that it involves a huge commitment to living a very optimistic life. I think it is ...

Sometimes a familiar place, or thing, or person, is warm and soft and safe. Other times there might be special circumstances, or danger, ...

Sometimes a table might be formally set for a special meal, or decked out with a birthday cake, and other times it has a week's worth...

"Scientists" say whatever they want to say. Scientists say the Grand Canyon was created suddenly by a flood. Scientists say the ...

Can a person create negativity? If so, a person should be able to create positivity. Nurture and encourage and enable happiness. Hap...

Control implies one KNOWS the right answer and if he's not "out of control" or "lacking self control," there will...

Consider ideas. If something makes sense, good. Use the idea. Remember where you got it. Be honest. Live your life in such a way that you...