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School and school-at-home sometimes teach people not to learn, or at least not to learn anything for fun without direction because ...

Response to a mom who expressed concern about the social outgoingness of a young teen: Consider the value of letting him be the star...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: Learning is defined not just as sucking in information about something the child is interested in. Learning is...

Some of your days should be all new and exciting and novel, and some should be same old, same old comfortable home. SandraDodd.com...

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

Question: But suppose I have a block about, say, world history; if I let my child lead, and she never thinks to think about world hist...

Meredith Novak wrote: It's good to know that it's not necessary to totally understand everything you read (or listen to) the...

Entries are literally and figuratively everywhere, past and future and in a minute. When you see a place, a path, or think of something...

"I learned early on that being excited with my kids about whatever they are excited about opens pathways and connections that are ma...

When school is no longer a part of the child's life, it's good to turn away from the school and let it fade into the distant past...

Colleen Prieto, April 2013 We just watched a documentary called Lost Castles of England. My 10 year old loves Star Trek and so he wa...

Just as being kinder and gentler with a child makes one a kinder, gentler parent, being more attentive and concerned about a spouse or pa...

Transcript from a presentation, long ago, about becoming more peaceful by making conscious choices: If you think “Ok, I’m either goin...

"Every person's learning about the world will be piecemeal - so it might as well be serendipitous and interest based." ...

Those who divide the world into academic and non-academic will maintain rules, bedtimes, chores even though they might not be "having...

Look at your child directly, and not through the lens of other people's fears. See the joy and learning and doing and being. Be with...

Waterfalls are made of streams of water, made of drops, of molecules, that were up in clouds a week, a day, or a minute ago. Confident pa...

During a drought, what is lacking? The recommended answer: rain Young Marty's answer: a boat ride SandraDodd.com/betteranswers ph...

Pam Sorooshian wrote: Homeschooled children who grow up in a stimulating and enriched environment surrounded by family and friends who ar...

The world isn't sorted into serious and funny, or beautiful and dull. Things are often quite mixed up, and changing with the moment,...