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There are no guarantees, but we can always do a little better. SandraDodd.com/guarantees photo by Laurie Wolfrum

Find ways to relax, rather than to struggle. A nice outside metaphor for this is Devil's Snare, invented by J. K. Rowling for...

Someone wrote: I just really wish I could be confident that I'm making the right choices for my children. I responded: Nobody c...

Someone on unschooling-[dot]-info (now defunct) was frustrated with advice that she be more gentle with her daughter and wrote: You ...

Joyce Fetteroll, in an interview: "A rich environment" is everything, not just what’s in the house, but the stuff that fam...

What someone can see outside in Hawaii won't be the same as in Morocco, or Japan, but luckily this blog gets photos from all ove...

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...