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Someone wrote: I guess I need more reassurance so it doesn't seem like such a huge gamble. I responded: Would school seem ...

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

List five things you learned after the age of twelve that you learned totally outside of school. Try to think of three friends wh...

Pam Sorooshian, of something she learned before she was unschooling: It really makes a huge difference how the parent is feeling abo...

Something tips the balance, when people's lives change. It's likely that some person, somewhere, said or did something that ch...

In a sweet little side-exchange about unschooling working, and a child being 17, I wrote: Parental hopes and worries don't help....

Jenny Cyphers, quoting and commenting: I ran across this little bit this morning, from Pam Sorooshian: Self-recrimination is self-in...