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Lyle Perry wrote: Deschooling is all about letting go. Letting go of your schoolish ideals, and even more important than that (in my...

Sandra Dodd, 2014, commentary on criticism: How parents can ignore their own real, present, thinking children in favor o...

Ben Lovejoy wrote: Once upon a time in the hamlet of Columbia in the province of Carolina, South, lived a woman of extraordinary gif...

Rather than tell a child in advance what's about to be seen, it can be wonderful to let them feel they've discovered something on t...

My daughter worked on a farm for a few years. Now she is working for the county, helping people learn to farm and to produce food for com...

Progress toward respectful parenting doesn't come all in one great leap from anywhere to peace all day and all night. It's a ...

Remember these moments, when simple things make the normal world magical. Provide for the possibility of these moments. SandraDod...

Saying "Yes" more than you might have brings sunshine to your life. Yes   ☀️    Yes   ☀️    Yes! photo by Kar...

An angel, holding an image of dice, in a church in Wales, in reference to a story about Roman soldiers near Jerusalem, long before th...

"The longer I live the more convinced I am that the way children are parented/raised has the greatest potential for changing the worl...

About calming down by counting to ten... Counting to ten only works if you're breathing slowly and deeply and looking at (or thi...