Just Add Light and Stir

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...

What does a tree need for its leaves and twigs to develop more? What does a cat need for its brain to develop more? They need a lac...

Sonya Austin wrote: When our children take the space they need in order to experience things, it doesn't make our lives as paren...

Can you get out of the house more? Go do different grocery stores? I've suggested this ten times over the years and some people pe...

IF an unschooling mom is letting her child play video games while she makes him food, and if someone else says "You're being ...

Deciding to homeschool, and then to unschool, was one of the toughest decisions I ever made. But I have to say that it has unequivocab...

It's easy for people to "yeah, but..." themselves way off track. It's harder to relax into considering that maybe th...

From my notes for a 2012 conference presentation on "Why Radical Unschooling?": So the history of "radical uns...

A skeptical mom asked: Can you tell me how it can serve a child if they say spend hours a day watching Scooby-Doo ? Deb Lewis respond...

Kelly Lovejoy wrote: No one chooses to unschool without questioning. That's the nature of the beast. Parents who aren't going...

Somewhere in the world it is morning every moment. Somewhere, light is dawning. .... If you want to change the way you're being or thi...

Pam Sorooshian wrote: Looking back, we can often see the path pretty clearly. But we can't look ahead and know what the path is goi...

Find the light moments, and the laughter, with your child. Be as soothing as you can be, because soothing them will also soothe you. Be ...

To a question about how to move from rules to principles and choices: Gradually, without fanfare, be more positive and more supporti...

"What creates power and worth is taking single, conscious steps toward being the kind of person one would like to be. Making better ...

Improved is better than failed. Solid and long-lasting is better than painful and disrupted. Be gentle, be careful, with your though...

Near you there are many many plain and simple things that you might overlook for being commonplace, everyday, throwaway backgrou...

When kids trust that parents would give them more options if they could, it adds to peaceful acceptance. If I had magic to make it all ...

New unschoolers are often afraid. If you feel fear, that's natural. If you've taken a child out of school, there is still a scho...

Paula L / "Paulapalooza" wrote: Okay, not all days will leave us feeling as if we are Julie Andrews spinning around on that m...