Just Add Light and Stir

Robin Bentley wrote: Seeing kids immerse themselves and being okay with their immersion can be enlightening for a parent! —Robin (o...

Instead of just going from lots of control to "do whatever you want," a really sweet way to do it is quickly but gradually. Quickl...

I didn’t know they would be so compassionate. Partly they weren’t taught to be cold, by school prejudices. Partly, they have had a...

As long as you look for what is and isn't authentic you'll be missing what is actually happening. SandraDodd.com/authentic...

I don't like the term "authentic," of human behavior. It suggests that all those doing anything differently are false, i...

I remember being corrected on saying someone "taught themself" something and thinking it was bullshit semantics, needlessly p...

Take a little time to try out new ideas up next to your old ones. Thinking about why you are where you are, thoughtwise, is a good too...

Jenny Cyphers wrote: While I don't deny that money can make an unschooling life easier, and that affording opportunities can c...

Most of unschooling has to happen inside the parents. They need to spend some time sorting out what is real from what is construct, an...

Pam Sorooshian wrote: Unschooling is not leaving kids to their own devices until they show an interest in learning a given subject...

QUESTION: But I wonder how we are preparing them for adulthood then? Joyce Fetteroll's ANSWER: How did you prepare your n...

Find ways to make your lives better, happier, cheerier, if you want learning to flood in. SandraDodd.com/positivity photo by Jo...

Light can come from you, today, in small ways. If you are gentle and patient when you help a child, that creates peace and comfort. If yo...

Find beauty and hope wherever it can be found. Say and think sweet things about your children. If people can be positive and swee...

When people ask about being happier and more positive, the answer can't help but be the same. BE happier. BE positive. But as wi...

Deb Lewis wrote: Along with the myth that a child will learn everything in school, and its companion fable that a child must go to scho...

Clarissa wrote, one day in 2011, of a relative's visit: On the first day being with us, my aunt said, "Don't you two...

Looking at what a child (or oneself) CAN do well is better (in time, emotion, confidence, relationships) than finding why he's off, o...

For better or for worse, this moment will pass. Be where you are, and try to accept the changes with hope and grace. Old and New ph...

Diana Jenner wrote (not "lately" anymore) : Football has been a big connector lately. Hayden loves claw machines and on our t...