Podcast series I'm part of

"The Ladies Fixing the World" (Season Two)

This podcast is three moms (I'm one) discussing elements of unschooling. The host is Cecilie Conrad (Danish, but traveling with her family, mostly in warm southern Europe), Sue Elvis (in Australia) and me (in the U.S.). You can tell us apart by our accents, so if you watch an episode to see what we look like, podcasts might be enough subsequently.

Nine episodes have been recorded, and three published so far. I added the links to:

https://sandradodd.com/listen/
Spoken Word and Video files
...and have also brought them here.

At the image below, you can listen directly. Here are links to YouTube if you like to see faces.

• S2E1 | Unschooling: A Lifestyle of Curiosity, Flexibility, and Trust


• S2E2 | Unschooling: Trust, Autonomy, and the Realities of Learning


• S2E3 | Unschooling and Connections: How Learning Is All About Creating a Web of Understanding

Purpose, Medieval boy-art

New page on the idea of "purpose"—having purpose, and living with purpose:

https://sandradodd.com/purpose

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"Thinking about Violence" has a NEW sample of what boys doodle in notebooks! (well... it's not "new" but new to that page!)


Sorry I haven't kept up better with announcements of additions to pages. There have been a few, but this one's exciting. More information at

https://sandradodd.com/violence/

"Bored" and "Lazy"

From Amy Childs' "The Unschooling Life" series of podcasts, I've added a player for this episode to two pages:

• "Bored" and "Lazy" (August 29th, 2014)


• at Boredom and Unschooling (SandraDodd.com/boredom)


• and also on What is "Lazy"? (SandraDodd.com/lazy)

The list of such insertions at various pages on my site, with links, is in a box a little way down Spoken Word and Video files (SandraDodd.com/listen). These are sound only, but you can easily listen from the page. Some have transcripts.

photo (a link) by Cass Kotrba

Growth, Safety, Randomizer

On expectations, and stepping away a bit:
https://sandradodd.com/change/growth

Safety in parking lots, partly; safety principles over rules:
https://sandradodd.com/safe

The randomizer isn't new, but I've recently added over a hundred links that weren't there, including those two new things above. There are nearly a thousand pages in that randomizer now. Have fun!
https://sandradodd.com/random

photo (a link) by Roya Dedeaux

Reassurance; normal

NEW PAGES (from older writing):

Teens can feel crowded. It's natural.
SandraDodd.com/teen/crowded

Normal, and unschooling
https://sandradodd.com/normal

Reassurance—notes to a nervous new unschooler in 1985, in the days of America OnLine (AOL). Some things I might have advised a bit differently later, but some are as good as ever.
https://sandradodd.com/reassurance

photo (a link) by Gail Higgins

Marvels, Reassurance, Jitters

NEW TO THE SITE, but not new. Rescued.

Unschooling and other Marvels
https://sandradodd.com/marvel

Questions from a young mom and answers from an unschooling friend.
https://sandradodd.com/questionsNancyWooton

Confronting Jitters—Joyce Fetteroll
https://sandradodd.com/joyce/jitters

photo (a link) by Cathy Koetsier

Montana, Italy, Godzilla

"Montana to Italy via Godzilla"
Interview of Deb Lewis, by Sandra Dodd,
finally formatted fully with photos and current links.
It's been on the site, but was dusty and never announced.
Now it's spiffed up and (was always) worth reading. SandraDodd.com/hsc/interviews/deblewis/

photo (a link to "Penguins and Saturn"),
by Theresa Larson

Pets, Positivity, Better

Pets—several additions, new info on horses
https://sandradodd.com/pets

Happy new page on positivity, with quotes, links and images
https://sandradodd.com/positivity

The "better" page is better:
https://sandradodd.com/better

photo (a link) by Gail Higgins

Influences, What to say, Structure, Moving

Who Inspired You?
two new stories added at SandraDodd.com/inspiration

"What can I say to doubters and critics?" (This page isn't new, but wasn't announced before.)
https://sandradodd.com/school/say

Additions to the page on what might happen without structure:
https://sandradodd.com/structure

Just finished (started and then misplaced it): Moving (making it easier)
https://sandradodd.com/moving

photo (a link) by Sandra Dodd

Definition of Unschooling; don't use "screentime"

Lyle Perry wrote a definition of unschooling that was worth a new page: https://sandradodd.com/lyle/definition


The clearest reason ever to abandon the term "screentime"
https://sandradodd.com/screentime/not.html

photo (a link) by Karen James

"Nest" (addition from 2005)

Added to the page "Building an Unschooling Nest," today:

Sandra, in 2005, to someone who described her son's BEAUTIFUL day, and asked if she should be doing more.

If there's a party at your house and there's enough food, there's toilet paper in the bathroom, the trash isn't overflowing and each guest is smiling or laughing, could you do more?

LIKE WHAT? Let partying dogs dance!

Things will change from time to time, and there will be lulls and slow days, but much of what you name up above DID involve your "doing."

I'll write more later, but Keith and Holly want me to get in the hot tub with them. Woohoo!! It's happening because I clean it every week and I built a fire earlier today, so it's hot. I washed swimsuits. I didn't say "It's time to get in," but I did prep work to make it possible.

Don't discount transportation, food, clothes, hospitality to friends, etc.

Sandra

Others had encouraging words for the mom, too. That was before we were using the idea of the creation of "an unschooling nest." Here is that discussion.

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Here's a photo of that hot tub, which we had for many years, but it became leaky near the top, for being in the high, dry desert. Lower, where it was kept wet (it was either filled or being washed), no leaks. Higher on the boards,they were shrinking from low humidity.

Folklore, arguments, perspective

Unannounced before:
Kids' songs, children's folklore, things passed down (Alison's kids demonstrate a game; I sing)
sandradodd.com/history/folklore.html

When Kids Don't Know the Old Way (about food, and "the right answers)
sandradodd.com/eating/humor
Not a new page, but newly polished and announced.

Added an image and note to the Perspective page.

photo (a link) by Sandra Dodd