Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Finley, one of the youngest residents at Twin Oaks, a Virginia commune. (Photo: Khue Bui for Yahoo Parenting) It’s 8:30 a.m. on a ...

I live with my husband and three young boys in a discrete, forgettable house among other discrete, forgettable houses. When my husband goes to work, I am left alone in a house with a 5-year-old, a ...

All of the commune’s children used to live in Degania together, actually — part of the now-defunct program, based upon the behaviorist philosophy of psychologist B.F. Skinner, which claimed that kids ...