Just Add Light and Stir
Inspiration and Encouragement for Unschooling Parents
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Hold on
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Kelli Traaseth wrote: Hold onto each day, know how quickly they pass. Kiss those tiny heads of toddlers and babies; smell their head...
Monday, October 20, 2025
Don't make it weird.
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For unschooling to work in that solid, twelve-or-twenty-year way, it should be about kids, and learning, and relationships and peace, ...
Sunday, October 19, 2025
Principles, rules, and coaching
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Sandra Dodd: Principles produce all kinds of answers where rules fail. Alex Polikowsky: Some people come to unschooling and in the...
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Deciding what's good
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People can say "no judgment" but people cannot think without making judgments. People can't make any choices without dec...
Friday, October 17, 2025
The Past, the Future and Now
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If you're living in the past, that's a problem for now. If you're living in the future too much— in the future that you...
Thursday, October 16, 2025
When to say no
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Sandra Dodd, response in 2000 to: Can anyone explain to me "unschooling"? It's like "just say no." Just s...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Teaching is a problem.
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"Teaching" is a problem, in an unschooling light. Learning is the goal, and teaching gets in the way. SandraDodd.com/teac...
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