Decisions, Reed Organ, Juggling

http://sandradodd.com/decisions
How often do you make decisions?
(I guess this is the shortest thing I’ve ever written.)

http://sandradodd.com/organ
In the area of collecting, strewing and making connections, here’s
information about a small reed organ.

http://sandradodd.com/juggling
Juggling, but art, and music, and ideas about more and better.

http://sandradodd.blogspot.com/2006/07/three-teens-i-have-three-teens.html
This is not exactly on the site, but is exactly on the topics of unschooling and parenting. It’s a commemoration of the last day we had three teenagers, which was Friday July 28, the day before Kirby’s 20th birthday.

toddlers, deschooling, monsters and cake

This installment is mostly about new art, but you might find articles you had missed or forgotten while you're looking.

new photo (new to the site) of my kids at
http://sandradodd.com/toddlers

"Look for the delight in life and it will infect your kids :-)"
New deschooling description by Joyce
http://sandradodd.com/joyce/deschooling
Two nice photos of Joyce, taken by her daughter Kat, added here:
http://sandradodd.com/joycefetteroll

Monster art now with the article for Monster Mania article for which it was intended
http://sandradodd.com/t/monstermania

Two new cake photos (Ren's Jalen and his Squarebob Spongepants cake) and something Ren wrote about that
http://sandradodd.com/cake

food, teens, mystery art, imagination and names

New parts on the following pages:

http://sandradodd.com/eating/sweets
Another seven-year-old turns down dessert.

http://sandradodd.com/teen/people
Review of teen behavior at conference

http://sandradodd.com/english

http://sandradodd.com/lists/help
How the discussions help people

New pages:

http://sandradodd.com/imagination
So far, Deb Lewis!

http://sandradodd.com/learning
Seems odd this site would need a page called "learning," but things came along that didn't fit elsewhere.
I'm still dinking around with the links to get the art to work on different browsers.

http://sandradodd.com/names
People's names, and place names

http://sandradodd.com/mysteryart
A pretty discovery, and a mystery for you.

Mystery Art

http://sandradodd.com/mysteryart

How are they as teens?

I've worked on several pages lately and the commonality seems to be that they're about older unschoolers.
There are additions or newness in the following links:

http://sandradodd.com/teen/jobs
"Will they get jobs?"


http://sandradodd.com/teen/people
Unschooled Teens: How are they as People?
(addition of a few things, notably the tale of Marty's graduation from the Junior Police Academy, a combination bootcamp and daycamp he attended when he was fourteen) and that had reference to a certain rant which is also posted and linked from there

http://sandradodd.com/lazyhedonists
I have named it "Lazy Hedonists" (choosing words from the rant itself)

http://sandradodd.com/kirby
Some new things, more access

http://sandradodd.com/life
Two new links at the bottom of the box and general page cleanup

typical day, female-lead, peace and books

http://sandradodd.com/typical
There's a new story on typical days (upper right) involving glowsticks in the hot tub. It's nice.

http://sandradodd.com/game/female
New female videogame lead sent by someone who happened by.

New on http://sandradodd.com/peacefulparenting

From the UnschoolingDiscussion list

Sandra Dodd: Some mom reading here might look up and smile at her child, or touch his head softly, or turn off the computer and go watch him build with Lego, or go with him to the park to throw a frisbee for the dog. Maybe without this list she would've told him to just go do something else because she had to fix dinner.

AmyLS: I'd just like to say that the cumulative effect of reading this message board has been much like Sandra said. Saying 'sure!' when my youngest one asked if we could get the Chocolate Lucky Charms, getting up when my kids say 'Hey Mum, look at this...' (instead of...'hold on, I'm doing something'). The insights and vignettes on this board have been very valuable to my family... good writing!


Not central to unschooling, but as sub-info for the Books page
http://sandradodd.com/books

Medieval books and online books
http://sandradodd.com/medievalbooks
http://sandradodd.com/onlinebooks
(Those I'll just add to as I come across good things, and if any of you have favorites, please write!)