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Pam Sorooshian, of something she learned before she was unschooling: It really makes a huge difference how the parent is feeling abo...

Something tips the balance, when people's lives change. It's likely that some person, somewhere, said or did something that ch...

In response to a question about what to do first, Schuyler wrote: You start by learning about your children. You start by playing with...

If people are living by rules, it's nearly impossible to tell what it would look like to live by principles. Once one is living ...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: Unschooling is *much* harder than school at home because it takes a great deal of self examination and change...

Linda Wyatt wrote: Algebra is the art of taking the information you have, the things you know, and using that to figure out the info...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: Unschooling is trusting in a child's natural curiosity to teach them what they need to know. The parent i...

Sandra Dodd: Move gradually into unschooling ideas—VERY gradually if your partner isn't interested. Until you understand it better yo...

Teresa Y. wrote: People have a lot of resources these days, and they are mostly very accessible; of course it makes sense that some ...

When questions come up about what to say to others who ask about what we're doing with our children, the answer is going to depend...

Sandra Dodd: Principles produce all kinds of answers where rules fail. Alex Polikowsky: Some people come to unschooling and in the...

Someone asked: Do you still look at standards for certain grade levels only so that the state leave you alone or do you just wait unt...

The people I respect most have become little voices in my head, and I "consult" them when I'm making decisions in their ...

"I'm so delighted by unschooling now I feel like I finally get it. My kids, my family, our lives are really fantastic now - I o...

I had a Shakespeare professor who said "Three trees make a row," to confirm a pattern when a student noticed that someth...

If the "control force" is great with you, maybe use it to control your own clutter or organize your papers or rearrange your...

Karen James wrote: I think advice of any kind can get in the way of unschooling if it is taken as truth without some reflection. Unschool...

Lyle Perry wrote: I know how scary it is to think about letting go of what's 'normal', and I know it seems impossible to...

Pam Sorooshian wrote: Unschoolers do not preplan a curriculum and we don't have predetermined lesson plans. What we have instead is ...

It can be fun to play with the idea of three. I had a literature professor say "Three trees make a row." He meant that finding th...