Just Add Light and Stir

Images and parts of the text are links. First post, with some nice comments, from 2010: This would need more candles now, but... ...

Jenny Cyphers wrote: Intellectually, I got unschooling all the way from the very beginning. The part that took more time was relationsh...

Patti Schmidt wrote: It seems to me that "phonics" essentially serves the purpose of "teaching" a child to rea...

Pam Sorooshian wrote: Resistance to things that look schooly or educational makes sense—we're promoting letting all those things...

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...

All the writing students do for teachers is pretend, practice writing. Every report written in school is a practice report, not a real r...

"What unschooling really is" can't easily be defined, because some people use it vaguely, admitting they don't under...

Karen James wrote in 2012: My nine-year-old son ran into the kitchen yesterday while I was fixing a snack for us to take back to our g...

If one thing makes you think of another thing, you form a connection between them in your mind. The more connections you have, the better a...

[As a kid in school...] I asked fewer questions when I heard "that won't be on the test" for the dozenth time. Then wh...

My children learned to read without being taught. If my children were the only children in the history of the world who learned withou...

"School is to unschooling as foreign language class is to learning to talk. The first is orderly, thorough, hard and hardly works....

An unidentified reader wrote: I wanted to say that this blog, out of all the blogs in the blogosphere, encourages me the most. It ...

"Your role isn't to set up a path for them to follow but to set up the environment for them to explore." —Joyce Fet...

Melissa Raley wrote: My daughter asked me to play a computer game with her and I told her that I "had" to clean the kitchen f...

Someone wrote to me: "I’m starting to see why you admire John Holt. Will you tell me more about him?" I responded: I admire h...

Deb Lewis wrote: Once you’re really listening to your kids and not your sense of injustice, you’ll find that answering them and...

"How do you know they're learning?" The people who ask that question are looking at the world through school-colored glasse...

When someone asked"What are some good ways to teach a 3 1/2 year old during a grocery store visit?" Joyce Fetteroll responded:...

When food is given the status of a religion (the place where sacrifices are made to ensure a positive outcome and long/eternal life), the...