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SandraDodd: I remember when I was a kid being told repeatedly in school that humans had no instincts left. So why would it even have...

How might a parent act on a really busy day? If the mom learns and then demonstrates that giving can make a person feel happy, *then* sh...

A mom named Angela wrote a long e-mail to all of her relatives, in 2003, and here is part of it: My job in the capacity of homeschoo...

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

"School is to unschooling as foreign language class is to learning to talk. The first is orderly, thorough, hard and hardly works....

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...

"What it takes to build a rich life is you — your time, energy, imagination, openness, passion, and optimism." —Claire Horsley ...

Some people say "no" before they even think, and then they justify it by all kinds of child-belittling means. You don't hav...

Where you live is different. It might not seem different to you, but it's not like all the rest of the world. Manhole covers are d...

If small changes of attitude can make more happy moments than before, that benefits everyone involved. No one can have perfect happiness, b...

Be dignified , if you want your children to respect you and to grow up to be dignified themselves. You cannot maintain your d...

"When we can we should always do more, offer more, think more, and make our bit of the world as big and full as we can for our ki...

Robyn Coburn wrote: Every time you feel the urge to control a choice, you can ask yourself "why?" and begin to questi...

It's July! May is history. Those who are long grown probably never thought of a year like 2016 as "history," but now...

It's easy to think of art as colors on flat paper or flat canvas. It's too easy to think of that as what art *is,* but now that ...

I saw an advertisement on the side of some webpage, aimed at me. "Homeschooling," I saw out the corner of my eye. It aske...

Make it happy and funny and comfortable and exciting so that they want to be with you. Be sparkly. "It" could be   - home   ...

The way to know the right direction is to identify the wrong direction. SandraDodd.com/screwitup photo by Bruno Machado

One of my intentions from way back, before unschooling came around in our lives, was to keep the tone of the house light and happy. ...

"Make a mental note of those times when you know in your soul that this is really working well. That act helps you gain understandi...