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Jenny Cyphers wrote: While I don't deny that money can make an unschooling life easier, and that affording opportunities can c...

Teens who were always unschooled *know* things that other people don't know. My children, for example, know one can learn to read...

Deb Lewis wrote (in 2008 or so): We have all made mistakes. I still make mistakes despite trying really hard not to and my kid is al...

Since my kids weren't going to have teachers at school to validate their interests or to introduce them to things I "hate...

It's a comforting feeling, for me, that we all see the same sun. I hope everyone sometimes sees a balloon, or another spec...

Writing done in school is practice writing, mostly. That "math" done in school is the calculations of other people's math. ...

"Video gaming is so much more than most people see when they are standing on the outside, looking through the window they call ...

Some parents express their learning as "struggle" or "challenge," but those words are antagonistic. Try to relax...

For unschooling to work, the relationship of the parent to the child needs to become so clean and clear that the parent is being, and not...

You know the game of finding something in which other players will say, "You're getting warm," or "You're getting ...

There are people whose lives have been transformed because they wanted good relationships with their children and they took small, simpl...

Gradually, steadily, consider what might be better, how you would like to be, and what you have learned will help. Be in the immediate p...

Don't rush into anything. Parents should learn to be calm and thoughtful instead of panicky and reactionary. It's better for healt...

When you know what you want to find, it's easier to see it. If you know you want learning and peace and joy in your life, removin...

(When some unschooled kids found the terms "class clown" and "teacher's pet," they didn't understand the conc...

No volume of parental talk will help as much as it will help for the parent to be closer, sooner, sweeter. Practice being quiet photo by...

Alex Arnott wrote: Principles of unschooling that have helped me relate differently with my own highly active nervous system: expanding a...

When you're thinking about what unschooling can bring into your life, don't forget confidence, or courage. And do things to build th...

An unschooling moment of realization (one of those things that you know, but have a moment of knowing it even more): Learning is...

Merry thoughts, fantasies, whimsies and dreams to all. Learn Nothing Day is in three weeks. Learn Nothing Day photo by Zann Carter