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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 ...

Keith and I have enjoyed our children and the success of our experiments and experiences has been a joint project at which we were very s...

Deb Lewis wrote: A principle internally motivates you to do the things that seem good and right. People develop principles by living...

Can there be too much peace? For learning, yes. Learning requires mental arousal. If an environment is so still and barren that one...

The Globe Theatre and a hamburger connect here: Luckily for us all, we can see Shakespeare in our own homes, done by professionals, a...

Deb Lewis wrote: "Our town is small and we've been to the museums here more than once but we still find new things to do here....

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...

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

I wrote this of Kirby, in 2005 when he was 18 years old: He's confident in his skin, in his mind, and in his being. He's not...