All new pages:
Here are some comments about when and natural learning starts to really show, and what it looks like.
New in the middle of this page:
http://sandradodd.com/deschoolingcomments
"... That has now changed and he has many interests—baking, voice-acting, chemistry, comedy writing, the Rennaisance (thanks, Merlin and the BBC!), and on and on. He had to find a peaceful home in himself before he could start to decorate it with knowledge."
Without deschooling on the child's part:
http://sandradodd.com/feedback/betsyS
"It's all come true...the kindness, the respect, the sparkle."
Four articles (two by me, one by Pam Sorooshian and one by Deb Lewis) and ten "Just Add Light and Stir" posts are now linked on the French page.
SandraDodd.com/french
Thanks to Catherine Goudouchaouri, Claire Rakotonimaro, and Edith Chabot, of the UK, France and Quebec, respectively, for these gifts of translation! Please pass the links on to anyone who might want more unschooling input in French.
The new pages are:
Imagination De Deb Lewis - Traduit par Catherine Goudouchaouri
Respirer Traduit par Catherine Goudouchaouri
Pam Sorooshian's "I LIVE THEREFORE I LEARN: Living an Unschooling Life.", a translation by Claire Rakotonimaro
L'école dans ma tête Traduit par Edith Chabot
Also by Edith Chabot, from Just Add Light and Stir:
"Out of Pink Crayons"
http://sandradodd.com/pinkcrayons
Transcriptions of things published many years ago, but never on my site until now.
On the day I wrote the first part, Holly was two years old, nearly three. She's twenty years old now. The follow-up was written at the end of 1999 or beginning of 2000, because Holly was eight and Marty was ten. There's only a small window between their birthdays.
There are photos and links to other photos, too. Anyone who thinks of me as the mother of young adults can visit a time I had nap-taking children I could carry around on my hip.
I had posted something here that I meant to post at http://unschooling.blogspot.com/2011/11/womanmagazine-uk.html
Something else new but not on my site is a new link to a review of this last summer's London conference: http://www.lttl.org.uk/ The fourth link is new to the site, and she especially liked Schuyler's presentation.
Just Add Light and Stir continues.
This note is here so that anyone who got an earlier e-mail and tries to follow it back won't be frustrated. :-)
Have a nice November!
Over the next many-months, I will be speaking and hanging out here:
The ALL Unschooling Symposium
Albuquerque
December 28-31, 2011
http://sandradodd.com/all
It will be small, but is already international, with a family from Ontario, Canada, and one from Sussex, England.
HENA
Tempe, Arizona March 31/April 1, 2012
(no link yet, except the state org: http://www.hena.us/ )
Site lost; cancelled for this year.
Life is Good
Vancouver Washington
May 24-27, 2012
Either before or after that, late Spring or June/July, The LiTTLe Conferencein London (if they have a 2012 conference) and so perhaps in Edinburgh, and probably, if the trip happens, I'll speak in Leiden, in the Netherlands.
Directory of chat transcripts, each on one section of The Big Book of Unschooling
http://sandradodd.com/chats/bigbook/directory
To subscribe to chat announcements, join this list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChatNote/
Chats are gone; yahoogroups is gone.
I've added 88 pages to the random page generator:
https://sandradodd.com/random
They're all new in the past year and some, but many are from this month. Now the random generator has 734 links. Have fun!
New on clarity of thought and expression, lower left:
http://sandradodd.com/clarity
Skepticism and the nature of unschooling
(skip this if you're in a light and fluffy mood)
I've added to the top of the page, and to the bottom.
The middle part was announced here in August, 2006.
http://sandradodd.com/skepticism
Barnes & Noble has electronic versions of my books on their site now.
Nook Book Version of The Big Book of Unschooling
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/big-book-of-unschooling-sandra-dodd/1105701706?ean=9781257152254&itm=1&usri=9781257152254
Nook Book Version of Moving a Puddle
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/moving-a-puddle-sandra-dodd/1105698350?ean=9781257174911&itm=1&usri=9781257174911
When I first submitted these books to Lulu.com, Moving a Puddle had color pictures, but they advised after that to put photos in black and white. So The Big Book has b&w photos. Bummer in retrospect. At least in the iBook versions, anyway, Moving a Puddle has color images! :-)
iTunes:
Moving a Puddle
http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/moving-a-puddle/id441773032?mt=11
The Big Book of Unschooling
http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/big-book-of-unschooling/id441277658?mt=11
Schuyler Waynforth, about a forgotten anniversary, and contentment:
http://sandradodd.com/spouses
(upper left)
Ben Lovejoy, four new pages to add to the one article I had. Three came from "Connections," and one Ben sent me in May, when I was in England, and it was lost in the shuffle until now!
http://sandradodd.com/benlovejoy
is the directory page, and the newly-presented information is here:
"No Rules-Sir ,Yes Sir" (Ben's life, the military, being an unschooling dad)
http://sandradodd.com/lovejoy/norules.html
A Look Back (movies, families)
http://sandradodd.com/lovejoy/alookback.html
Following our Passions to Bonnaroo (music, road trips, relationships)
http://sandradodd.com/lovejoy/bonnaroo.html
The Stories of Our Families (the value of storytelling)
http://sandradodd.com/lovejoy/stories.html
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The Connections ezine site will not be maintained by its owner, and I was told to grab what I wanted before it was gone. One month, my first book was featured as a resource, and I've saved that page, with its reviews, here:
http://sandradodd.com/feedback/puddlebookreviews
A new part, second in, here, on how to strew:
http://sandradodd.com/strew/how
Two new bits up top on the co-sleeping page:
http://sandradodd.com/sleep/cosleeping
If someone has a good co-sleeping photo I can use there, I'd appreciate it. (I can use more than one.)
All new pages, all Deb Lewis!
And if you like these ideas, please consider coming to the ALL Unschooling Symposium December 29-31, where Deb will speak about unschooling for the first time.
Sympathetic, Empathetic, or Simply Pathetic?
http://sandradodd.com/deblewis/sympathetic
Cultural Ideas and Change
http://sandradodd.com/deblewis/culturalideas
How accepted truths (memes) make unschooling difficult to see and believe.
The Evidence of Years: hindsight, milestones, and big differences
http://sandradodd.com/deblewis/years
Unschooler's Pipe Wrench
http://sandradodd.com/deblewis/humor
"We understand we don't always have a choice about what life brings us, but we always have a choice about how we face it. And we face it wearing big red clown noses."
Not Even Close to All For McNaught
http://sandradodd.com/deblewis/notevenclose
Confessions of a Lawbreaker: "My son Dylan has been voting for years. According to the Twenty sixth Amendment he doesn't have the right to vote until he's eighteen years old, but we amended that amendment, at least in our own minds...."
http://sandradodd.com/deblewis/confessions
These articles are both five years old, but have lived on a site that will be dissolving soon, so I've brought them and their photos and will be bringing some other articles by authors I've been collecting. Sometimes my pack-rat "collect the whole set" nature can benefit others.
How a Monster and a Dead Guy Named Howard Led a Boy to a World of Connections, by Deb Lewis
http://sandradodd.com/deblewis/monster
Crystallized Learning, by Ren Allen
http://sandradodd.com/ren/crystallized
Praise of Joyce Fetteroll (from India this time):
http://sandradodd.com/joycefetteroll
(Click the image at right for another Joyce quote.)
Something fishy on the art page:
http://www.sandradodd.com/art/
The science page has balls (unless you're on an iPad):
http://sandradodd.com/science/
Something new by Jenny Cyphers, at the bottom of "Abundance"
http://sandradodd.com/abundance
New page on the value of curiosity in unschooling parents:
http://sandradodd.com/curiosity
Holly and I made a set of five magnets with photos from Just Add Light and Stir, and quotes—not the same quotes they first appeared with, but some chosen to go with the photos. Quotes and photos maybe be seen in detail at http://SandraDodd.com/magnets .
We sold all the sets we had at The Good Vibrations Conference, but received a new shipment today. The proceeds will go toward rental of meeting rooms for the ALL Unschooling Symposium in Albuquerque in December. The result of having the magnets on your fridge or filing cabinet might be that might be inspired or reminded to be patient and present. They might also make great gifts!!
A full set of five is $10 (including shipping); individual magazines, with shipping, are $3.
Addition to the "Confidence" page, something Meredith Novak wrote on Facebook.
(top of the page:)
http://sandradodd.com/confidence
Principles, something new by Joyce up top, and links added at the bottom.
http://sandradodd.com/principles
This page could be a new starting place for the site, with a week's worth of reading.
Perhaps too intense for beginners.
Definitely a time for "Read a little, try a little, wait a while, watch."
In light of another spate of arguments for diagnosing and labelling children's "shiny differences," Chris Sanders wrote about traits her daughter had that needed time, attention, and unschooling, rather than professional "help."
http://sandradodd.com/words/without
Magnets for sale now! http://sandradodd.com/magnets
Photos by Sandra or Holly, quotes by Sandra, photoshop artistry by Holly, webpage by Sandra...
Magnets by Sandra and Holly Dodd
A new page on Minecraft, and parents not only accepting and supporting, but sharing a child's fascination with a game.
http://sandradodd.com/videogames/minecraft
That link and another new one are added up top here:
http://sandradodd.com/videogames/
A five year old is being sneaky; a parent is being an obstacle.
Joyce and Jenny C responded:
http://sandradodd.com/needs
New, about cows, Barbie and My Little Pony, on the math phobia page:
http://sandradodd.com/math/phobia.html
Games with dice that can be played out and about, by Pam Sorooshian (bottom part is new)
http://sandradodd.com/math/pamdice
My Just Add Light and Stir blog was a year old yesterday.
Co-Sleeping
New quote by Vickie Bergman, and link, lower left; general page cleanup.
http://sandradodd.com/sleep/cosleeping
Something new, about mid-page, by Caren Knox, about Priorities and unschooling:
http://sandradodd.com/priorities
I'm reminded again how much I like the titles Holly did for me a few years back.
New by Schuyler Waynforth, up top on the Control page: http://sandradodd.com/control
and another Holly title:
Two new bits on kids and sugar, both by Annie Kessler, one she wrote on facebook, and the other she wrote to me so this will be a first-ever exclusive peek! :-)
http://sandradodd.com/eating/sugar#kessler
http://sandradodd.com/eating/sweets
They toggle back and forth, so you won't need to read the two pages to find them, but you might want to!
Gail posted photos and words about a hike she and Broc took together. It's sweet and inspiring.
I linked it here:
http://sandradodd.com/spouses
It's not so new now, but I forgot to announce it; sorry. Those attending the Good Vibrations Unschooling Conference in San Diego next month can hear Gail and Broc in person.
I was asked for what I had written on how "the law of attraction" can hinder unschooling. I've found two things and put them together here:
http://sandradodd.com/lawofattraction
If others remember where other discussions are, or have written something that could be added to that page, please send me a note.
One new example on teens getting jobs (upper left):
http://sandradodd.com/teen/jobs
"Force" (not Yoda and Luke, but people feeling powerlessly "forced" to do things)
http://sandradodd.com/force
The idea of "kind of" unschooling has been being discussed at facebook. I don't like the impermanence of facebook. I know nothing is permanent; many large collections of unschooling writings are lost to us. But facebook discussions aren't even "permanent" for a week. So I saved things written by Sylvia Toyama and Schuyler Waynforth here, where there were already some great ideas stored:
http://sandradodd.com/unschool/marginal.html
(the page has also been cleaned up otherwise, and links added at the bottom)
the photo is a link to a recent Just Add Light post
| Writing by Joyce, me and Meredith added to "Thinking about Needs" http://sandradodd.com/needs Deb Lewis on limits and controls (right-hand column): http://sandradodd.com/deblewis/ Not being at someone's "beck and call" has been added to the "phrases to hear and avoid" page. http://sandradodd.com/phrases |  More or Less! (click) |
NEW:
Vickie Bergman let me share something she wrote, with her photos.
Unschooling: It's Like Riding a Bicycle
http://sandradodd.com/bicycle
and it lends itself well to links to some other inspiring things.
REVAMPED:
Always Learning Live Unschooling Symposium
Albuquerque, New Mexico, December 28-31, 2011
http://sandradodd.com/all/
Information will be added to the FAQ pretty continuously, and to the blog.
http://sandradodd.com/all/faq
http://alwayslearninglive.blogspot.com/
Book ordering pages have been revised to discourage direct sales from outside the U.S., and to include eBook versions.
http://sandradodd.com/bigbook/order
http://sandradodd.com/bookorder
I knew these were there, but today is my first "you can slow down" day since about April. I'm home from eight weeks in Europe, have spoken at the CHN Expo in southern California, and Kirby's 25th birthday party has passed successfully.
So here are the links to talks you can listen to right there, or possibly download to your own devices, and they're free. I wish I hadn't spoken so quickly, but there it already is. :-)
http://www.sandradoddvisit.ebhe.org.uk/
from which I lifted the following:
Both talks were recorded, and are available here for
downloading as podcasts (mp3 format), which should play on anything
(PCs, Macs, iPods, etc). Each talk is split over two files; please note
that these are quite large files.
Moving a Puddle is available on iTunes as an iBook for iPad, iPod or iPhone. I've downloaded it and the photos are in color.
I have heard that the iTunes version is only available in the U.S. but I'm not sure if that is so, or how long it will be true.
An electronic download of the file is available from Lulu.com, but it won't do the tricky format changes and notes and all of an iBook.
http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/moving-a-puddle-and-other-essays/428295
The Big Book of Unschooling on iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/big-book-of-unschooling/id441277658?mt=11
and on Lulu.com as a downloadable file:
http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/big-book-of-unschooling/6009520
I came to pass the hat, the collection basket, the international-coins jar.
The search function quit working on my site, and delivered an irritating error message if people tried to use it, trying to blame them and their computer. What happened, I think, was that Google custom search changed over a year ago and I didn't notice. Without a working custom search, my error message and my search page were worthless.
The new options were to have advertisements, or to pay $100 for a clean search page. I paid. It occurred to me that some of you who have used and appreciated my site and its search functions might be willing to help me with that unexpected cost.
Another slighter expense is the chatroom. I took off the time I was in Europe, and intended to pick up the Monday and Friday chats in August, but looking at the calendar, one mid-week chat would be better for me, and I will start Wednesday chats this week. The chatroom costs by usage, and is $15 every few months. (It would be free if I didn't mind strangers wandering in, or having advertisements pop in on us.) UPDATE November 2011; it's $12+ a month.
If it would make my begging any more effective, my birthday is near. OH! Rather I should say it's nearly Learn Nothing Day!
http://www.homefires.com/teleconference/apr.asp
It's past now but...
I was interviewed by phone, and there is a sound file for sale. It was a pretty good interview, honestly, and so even though I don't make any of the money, I can happily recommend it. :-)
The description is above, and the order page is here:
http://www.homefires.com/store/audio.asp
The feedback page is updated a time or two a month, but I've had several in a week and thought that might be worth noting.
http://sandradodd.com/feedback
(new things are in the upper left)
"Fears can magnify anything way out of proportion." About the fearful danger of parental fears.
http://sandradodd.com/fears
The problem with saying "That's ridiculous!" when people are discussing unschooling
http://sandradodd.com/issues/ridiculous
Spoiled kids, and about what can happen if you buy young children too many toys
http://sandradodd.com/spoiledkids
How can a person change? How long does it take to change?
http://sandradodd.com/change/
The main unschooling page now has the current "Just Add Light and Stir" each day, thanks to automated internet widgetry.
http://sandradodd.com/unschooling
Sometimes kids want to watch the same thing over and over. Me too!
Some things work in video, or aurally, that don't work in books or in writing.
http://sandradodd.com/again
Until recently, Europeans (and Canadians, NZ, Australia—anybody outside the U.S.) needed to give me a lot of money for international shipping, but now Lulu has production centers on other continents. GOOD! [April 2011 is over.] Please check this out. I also intend to have books with me in some places, at £9 for Moving a Puddle, and £15 for The Big Book, but for anyone interested in buying one directly now, with $4.95 off the shipping costs, I've collected details and links here: http://sandradodd.com/booksale |   |
