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Some of your days should be all new and exciting and novel, and some should be same old, same old comfortable home. SandraDodd.com...

Writing to real people for real purposes improves writing in real ways. There are some people who haven’t been born yet who will, ...

Pam Sorooshian wrote: Unschooling requires you to take joy in life. It requires you to appreciate the wonders of the world. Every m...

I believe that a focus on nature (often fantasy nature, as in Waldorf's magical forests) can have a detrimental effect on unschool...

What I...do, is to help people live calmly and peacefully. It always interests me when people want me to stop doing that, to take it b...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: If your default answer is no—by the *kids'* standards even if *you* feel you say yes a lot—then they're...

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

Unschooling doesn't mean not learning — it means learning without the trappings of school. It's not unlearning or uneducating. It...

Inventory your own tools. What do you already know that can make you a more peaceful parent? What tricks and skills can you bring into yo...

Pay attention to your child and help him do/find/see/experience things that will interest him. Help him be his best self as often ...

Somewhere in the world it is morning every moment. Somewhere, light is dawning. Some people, and I'm one of them, believe that any...

Karen James, on deschooling: Think creatively. Think joyfully. Cultivate an attitude of enthusiasm and awe at as many things you can fi...

It's okay to change gradually. It's okay to say "I'm working on something," or "We're looking into somethi...

Colleen Prieto, April 2013 We just watched a documentary called Lost Castles of England. My 10 year old loves Star Trek and so he wa...

Families with rules have a lot to fight about. Couples with a lot of rules have a lot to fight about. When I wrote that, I had be...

Marta Venturini, in an interview in 2020: I see deschooling much more than just that process of replacing school with no school. Beca...

Unschooling is a profoundly optimistic decision and that it involves a huge commitment to living a very optimistic life. I think it is ...

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

If people want you to be disdainful of your children or to treat them harshly, just say no . The Big Book of Unschooling , page ...

I have heard many stories of the rearrangements of families with unschoolers who are in their late teens or early twenties, and a young ad...