Just Add Light and Stir

Deborah Cunefare wrote: My kids know that if they meet someone online and decide they'd like to get together in real life, I...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: My motivation for homeschooling was for learning to be fun and interesting whether first grade or twelfth gr...

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...

Once when a mom wished her child didn't love "Barney," I said I didn't love "Rugrats," but I went on to...

Any subjects leads to every other subject, and every other connection of any sort. Rather than sorting things out with your children, tr...

Many years ago I had a profound moment, watching a family therapist/psychologist on Phil Donahue's talk show. He said many family pro...

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

If people can come to understand why it matters whether they use "teach" or "learn," they can start to get other s...

Karen James wrote: When people think "always" and "never", they get stuck in "always" and "never"...

Arbitrary rules will never be better for unschooling, nor for any relationship, than thoughtful choices will be. Unschooling parents mus...

Principles instead of rules means not to decide in advance what you're going to do, but to know what you believe and what your prior...

Deb Lewis wrote: The more you're aware of how good things are when they are good, the easier it will be to wade through the times ...

Someone else's question, and part of my answer: As much as I read,... I seem to slide right back into schoolish ways. How long doe...

Once someone in a chat asked what I meant by "Positive." Quickly and bluntly, I wrote: Positive is not being cynical and not b...

Realities aren't always easily categorized. Where do these goats live? Turkey. Ester Siroky saw them, when she, her husband, and y...

Karen James wrote: Real learning is subtle...like a breath. —Karen James (that quote in a larger context) Becoming Confident photo...

(Warning people away from "unconditional love," I wrote:) Probably the idea started, in the 1950’s, with Carl Rogers’ phrase ...

Art made of light and shadow—look for it at your house, in stores, restaurants, in friends' houses, too! SandraDodd.com/light pho...

People have thoughts and reactions every half a second. Question them all. Witness and consider them all. Make choices. Make choices...

"If you answer every question with honesty you never have to be nervous about the next question because you already know the answer. ...