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SandraDodd: My "make the better choice" tool has helped me move from "acceptable" to "better" and then MOR...

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

Because you become a better partner, that partnership works better. Partners photo by Sandra Dodd; carving by Keith Dodd

Look for patterns and unique expressions, all around you. There will be packing materials, automobiles, tea mugs, hats and toys to ...

My favorite definition of unschooling is providing an environment in which learning can flourish. School prescribes what should be le...

Alex Polikowsky wrote: Unschooling takes more, more presence, more guidance, more attention, more mindfulness, more co...

A myth and boogie-man: "If children are allowed sleep as late as they want, they'll never be able to get up and go to work...

Something that inspired me to choose principles over rules: We were at my mother-in-law's house and I offered to help with d...

Robyn Coburn wrote: The idea of Unschooling is for parents to be the facilitators of options, the openers of doors, the creators of...

Clarity of thought is helped by clarity of language. Even when others aren't around to point at problematical terms and ph...

Do the best you can to survive the bumps and unexpected turns of the trails through the unschooling world, which will necessarily...

Sometimes a litle door might be literal, or sometimes figurative, but little doors can lead to many wonderful things! All the doors you'...

Our future doesn't need to be a repeat of our past. —Karen James SandraDodd.com/karenjames photo by Sandra Dodd ___

When people change directions concerning their children's lives and learning, sometimes they ask what they should do and how the...

[While I was in La Leche League] I learned that children have within them what they need to know, and that the parent and child are a tea...

Joyce Fetteroll, to someone writing about "reassurance": Seek reassurance in your daughter's smiles. Trust that it's a g...

Who you are, no one else can be. Who you are now is not who you were before. Who you are today is not who you will be tomorr...

New unschoolers are often afraid. They're afraid to keep doing what they're doing; they're afraid to change. Sometimes to ca...