Just Add Light and Stir

Once someone wrote that her child was doing passive things, and had no interest in learning the basics. Amy Carpenter wrote som...

Make room in your heart and your life and your house for your child's interests. SandraDodd.com/focus photo by Sandra Dodd

"Add light" can notch us up into the... lighter light. It's not just sunshine that's light. There is firelight, candlel...

Meredith Novak wrote: "A lot of unschooling involves learning how to listen to one another, how to build up understanding and partne...

"Unschooling becomes the ultimate challenge against modern selfishness." —Cathy SandraDodd.com/howtocomment (From a l...

Shelter your kids from what you know is ugly. Shelter me too, if I'm around. It's really okay to "cherry pick" in regard t...

I have always looked at learning. Learning was and is my goal—I keep learning, the kids are learning—and one of my principles, and one of ...