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Karen James wrote: Freedom is a lovely word. It’s a huge concept. It has a very meaningful place in our society. It is important to a...

Any website has a point of view, a reason for existing, and something to promote or spotlight or sell. Every map ever made was made fo...

Create an environment filled with exploration and fun, so that learning will happen. Parent should learn enough about learning to c...

Pam Sorooshian wrote: I didn't get to observe radically unschooled kids before coming to the conclusions I did about how children lear...

Light returns [to tractors (in Wales)]: Solstice and midwinter observances are varied, but seem always to involve light! San...

[A] common question is whether someone who grew up without a schedule and a bed time and could ever hold "a real job." ...

Joyce Fetteroll, from an interview: Unschooling is creating a rich environment where natural learning flourishes.... . . . . ...

I don't look at the state's requirements. I look at my child's opportunities. SandraDodd.com/learning photo by Amy McD...

"If my kids grow up and feel they had a great warm childhood and that they were supported and loved and are now doing what they love...

Our entire life created a learning environment for our children, every day, at home or out in the world. Debating How Kids Learn ph...

Writing done in school is practice writing, mostly. That "math" done in school is the calculations of other people's math. ...

Pam Sorooshian wrote: There are times in life that you won't feel like you can take care of others around you as well as you'd li...

Creativity and courage are useful for unschooling, and they are traits that an unschooling environment nurtures, in both kids and adul...

What you do shines on, and sometimes through, your children. You affect them, and others can see the effect. SandraDodd.com/nature ...

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...

Glenda wrote: When I'm tired or hungry or don't feel well, I have to be more thoughtful about how I talk to my husband and how ...

In response to someone saying her child would rather take the easy route than try something tough, Joyce Fetteroll wrote: It's hum...

History is where your car came from, and what car you had before that, and how far back in your family it was when they didn't have car...

Pam Sorooshian wrote: I'm not saying to prepare a lesson on cactus or coconuts or pineapples. I'm saying that if you're not a...

If there are a thousand choices, or even three choices, how do you choose? Some people like to live without choices, so they can say "...