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If the child isn't hungry, tired, afraid or feeling unloved, there should be no problem with curiosity and the desire to experienc...

Shhhhh.... don't scare him. photos by Holly Dodd Almogordo, 2009

Carol Brown, responding to the comment "Not being able to read can limit them": They are also limited by their lack of heig...

Bernadette Lynn wrote: My son isn't restricted in what he eats. He came into the kitchen yesterday to ask me if there were any bis...

It is my long considered opinion, my eventual conviction, that trying to control TV based on the mother's judgment of what the ...

Remember that if your “unit study” is the universe, everything will tie in to everything else, so you don’t need to categorize or be met...

Sometime between 1795 and 1811, Jane Austen wrote (in Sense and Sensibility ): Elinor's security sunk but her self-command did ...

I'm living without a piano these days, but this was true for years, mostly with Clementi, or Bach: I have said that I play the ...

SandraDodd.com/words Image by an engineering student in the UK whose Fiverr name was Spartali, in 2014

Chris Ester wrote: What bothers me most... (about a questionable definition of unschooling) is that it is all about the parent and t...

In an unschooling discussion, once, someone commented just this: Evidently this is a place to choose one's words extremely carefu...

Lyle Perry wrote: Knowing facts and understanding facts are two very different things. School (for the most part) requires knowi...

Joyce Fetteroll, in "Five Steps to Unschooling" : Forget the linear approach to learning we grew up with. For instance...

Holidays can be stressful, and often involve hard work. Look for joy and sparkles out of the corner of your eye. Spot beauty and lo...

Janine Davies wrote, in the midst of a longer account: For me, that all begins and ends with being a good mum in the eyes and mind...

Humor is a great warm-up for any thinking. If one's mind can jump to get a joke, it will be easier for it to jump to synthesize...

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...