An addition to "True tales of kids turning down sweets," the third one down.
http://sandradodd.com/eating/sweets
New quote on "Gradual Change" (the second item)
http://sandradodd.com/gradualchange.html
Embracing and welcoming mystery to our unschooling lives:
http://thinkingsticks.blogspot.com/2013/12/mysterious-mysteries.html
A new comment on the "Service" page, following a request in The Big Book of Unschooling.
http://sandradodd.com/service
Art added to the article "Morning." Some of you will recognize it from a magnet at your house.
http://sandradodd.com/morning
This page will be only very rarely used, to link as a response when someone e-mails me a long problem. It says I don't do one-on-one help, and offers alternatives and links.
http://sandradodd.com/oneonone
The image is a link.
New page: Read a little, try a little, wait a while, watch.
http://sandradodd.com/readalittle
Added some "found quotes" to my notes from a talk I gave in 2012 at the HSC conference in Sacramento.
http://sandradodd.com/hsc/radical
Two new translations to French at "Ajouter de la lumière et remuer":
http://sandradodd.com/french/addlight
The photo is a link.
This page isn't new, but wasn't announced when it was. Pushpa Ramachandran, in India, wrote something beautiful which I quoted in Just Add Light and Stir. Ana Paulina Maya, in Colombia, translated it to Spanish.
http://sandradodd.com/spanish/estar
I was interviewed in Spanish on December 3, 2013, by Maria José Cifuentes, in Spain—the video has English and Spanish both, translated by Yvonne Laborda (Spain) and assisted by Ana Paulina Maya (Colombia). That video is here:
It's in Portuguese, but anyone can read the pictures. :-)
Online version (not on my site): http://www.dn.pt/revistas/nm/interior.aspx?content_id=3511700
PDF of newspaper pages: http://sandradodd.com/portuguese/InterviewSandra2013.pdf
And both links have been added here: http://sandradodd.com/portuguese/
This will be an ongoing project, but it's a list of jobs, with a link to skills and abilities, still a-gathering:
http://sandradodd.com/jobs
When I was going to link a Scooby-Doo-related page on Just Add Light, I noticed there were several, so I've made them an index page:
http://sandradodd.com/scoobydoo
All new pages:
"Of your own certain knowledge…" Beyond trust or faith, there is *really knowing.*
http://sandradodd.com/knowledge
Equívocos sobre o Unschooling (a translation of Misconceptions about Unschooling)
http://sandradodd.com/portuguese/misconceptions
And that seemed to require a link to the translator, so...
http://sandradodd.com/marta
These links have all been announced here over at various times over the past year and a half, but the reality TV page has new writings. These three had not been previously all cross-linked or grouped. They all have to do with disorted reality, ideals, and wishes. The ideas here aren't so simple, but awareness of their existence is good! 
Would you rather live in a stone-age village? Early 19th century sod house?
http://sandradodd.com/reality/
Unschool World, another sort of alternate reality
http://sandradodd.com/unschoolworld
This page was new in July 2013, and has new information, in the righthand column
Potential problems with Reality TV and unschoolers
http://sandradodd.com/problems/realityshows
http://sandradodd.com/deschooling/
I had a page called deschooling, but it had become crowded, and when someone wrote something great, I had no great place to put it.
Now, there are several pages in a deschooling section. The new writing, by Rachel Marie, several quotes, and lots of links, are here:
From that, one can arrive at the original page, stripped down quite a bit:
http://sandradodd.com/deschooling.html
Also, to a newly created page with previously published writing by Robyn Coburn and Joyce Fetteroll:
http://sandradodd.com/deschooling/robyn.html
And from the old page, now not the main page, is one more:
http://sandradodd.com/deschoolingcomments
"Cheery Neglect"—Karen Lee asked about that phrase, which she remembered from a quote but couldn't find. Others quickly helped locate it. It seemed good enough to put on its own page.
http://sandradodd.com/neglect
Some people want to live with and around unschoolers, rather than in the real world around them.
http://sandradodd.com/unschoolworld
Mechanical Music—old, new, soothing, inspiring. Engineering, history, art.
http://sandradodd.com/music/mechanical.html
http://sandradodd.com/change/
And on another change page, additions from the writings of Tam Palmer and Colleen Prieto
http://sandradodd.com/change.html
Why TWO pages called "change"? Well... sometimes I forget I have a page. So I make another one. And then I can't decide which should be "the real one." They're both good. Each links to the other. A mis-matched set!A few updates to the Help page:
A girl made a block tower, and her brothers copied it in Minecraft:
http://sandradodd.com/minecraft
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Karen James, 1/3 of the way down, "If I wasn't paying attention, and if I was afraid of the time Ethan spends at the computer, I would miss all of the creativity and learning happening. Worse still, Ethan might too, because my worry would become his burden."
http://sandradodd.com/screentime
Pam Sorooshian's 2011 article on child-led learning is new on my site en Español, with links to the translator's blog, and the original in English on Pam's blog.
http://sandradodd.com/spanish/childled
A chat transcript from May, on the topic of Freedom, is edited and ready to read at a new location for chat transcrips which Marta Pires is helping me set up. We should be able to keep the colors on the names, from future chats (and some past)
http://chattranscripts.blogspot.com/2013/05/freedom_15.htmll
Stress is a problem.
http://sandradodd.com/stress
New review (new to the page) added about The Big Book of Unschooling, up top:
http://sandradodd.com/bigbook/
Screentime: How Google saved a calf's life (Alex Polikowsky, about the third item down)
http://sandradodd.com/screentime
New items on feedback, and a link to a large apology:
http://sandradodd.com/feedback/
New item, fourth down on the left, Meredith Novak:
http://sandradodd.com/wonder
New stories at "How does it balance out?"
http://sandradodd.com/eating/balance
New page:
Unschoolers on Reality shows! Bad idea!!!
(Producers are making inquiries in at least two countries lately.)
http://sandradodd.com/problems/realityshows
Usually I only put something in one place on my site, but Colleen Prieto's son, Robbie, did a cool thing, and her husband, Robert, said a great thing about it, and Colleen wrote it up sweetly. It's about his allowance.
Three at a blow:
http://sandradodd.com/generosity
http://sandradodd.com/math/allowance
http://sandradodd.com/unexpected
Follow-up page, LiTTLe Conference in Ashford Surrey, July 13-14, 2013
http://sandradodd.com/lttl2013
Michelle Thedaker, on how hard it is to change (new page):
http://sandradodd.com/scary
Child-led learning (new page inspired by something Colleen Prieto wrote)
http://sandradodd.com/child-led
Screentime in the woods? Communicating in the real world. (addition, up top, Brie Jontry)
http://sandradodd.com/screentime
If you cater to his every whim, will he still throw a fit?
More on "whim," new on "to throw a fit."
http://sandradodd.com/phrases
Two new things in Portuguese. The first was never in English.
The second was translated by Marta Pires.
Uma Conversa Sobre o "Unschooling"...Em Português!
http://sandradodd.com/portuguese/exchange
Perguntas mais frequentes sobre o "unschooling" e respectivas respostas
http://sandradodd.com/portuguese/faq
The image is of sculpture in a pond at the Lady Bird Johnson wildflower center near Austin, and it is a link.
Added to the "Respect index"—two dozen "respect" quotes have been added.
http://sandradodd.com/respect/
French translation of Disposable Checklists for Unschoolers:
http://sandradodd.com/french/checklists
I've just added something to my page on divorce. It came up in old e-mail while I was searching for something different. I'm glad I came across it, so it could be saved. It's near the bottom here; you could search "more rights" to find it.
http://sandradodd.com/divorce
"Near the bottom" doesn't seem best in general, but that page has lots of really good things on it.
Part of the longer writing:
"An intact marriage/family has MANY more rights and freedoms than a split family involved with the court system."
Coaching (Choices, Freedom, and other difficult ideas)
by Marta Pires, a collection of quotes, with commentary
http://sandradodd.com/coaching
A mom asked for ideas to help a child who was curious about and fascinated by sewers. Ideas flew!
http://sandradodd.com/sewer
Thomas Laferrière-Meloche visited a real sewer treatment plant, and made a video showing some of that and his minecraft sewers, with a sweet note at the end (near the bottom of that page).
http://sandradodd.com/videogames/minecraft
Beautiful account of love and learning, three paragraphs at the bottom of this page:
http://sandradodd.com/videogames/minecraft
"Who inspired you?" Summary of responses in an intro round at the ALL Unschooling Symposium in Minnesota, May 2013:
http://sandradodd.com/inspiration
Update on European tour schedule! It's about to happen. I leave in two weeks.
http://speakingsandradodd.blogspot.com/p/europe-2013.html
One of my own early parenting inspirations, Lori Odhner, has expressed the wish to own a dogwood tree. That seems EASY! The difference in my life and marriage and relationship with my children that Lori made is HUGE compared to a tree. If any of you know Lori, or have reason to appreciate the help she gave me that I have passed on, take a peek at my project:
http://sandradodd.com/LoriOdhnerTree
The photo is a link. It's also Holly (whose name is changing to Doozy), on some 1960's stairs in the middle of a three-level store that once sold lamps and electric lighting, and now is a thrift shop.
Food as religion? Upper right, box.
http://sandradodd.com/foodproblems.html
Decision making (new writing under the photo)
http://sandradodd.com/decisions
Bernadette Lynn, whose son chose the melon that was surrounded by sweets (third item):
http://sandradodd.com/eating/sweets
New, by Kandace Wright, about the confidence from learning to read on one's own, at the top:
http://sandradodd.com/r/deeper
Halfway down, new stories by Deb Lewis and Colleen Prieto, about learning (not teaching):
http://sandradodd.com/teaching/
Sandra Dodd: Happiness Inside and Out (sound file and written notes)
and
Sandra Dodd: Why Radical Unschooling (sound file and written notes)
A new portfolio example by Brie Jontry, for Noor, Pennsylvania, April 2013:
http://sandradodd.com/curriculum/portfolio.html
New comments on "Precisely How to Unschool":
http://sandradodd.com/howtocomment
Monday June 24, 2013, Joyce Fetteroll, Sandra Dodd and Julie Daniel in Selkirk:
http://speakingsandradodd.blogspot.com/p/selkirk-scotland.html
Jo Isaac sent a photo of Kai's bone museum, in Adelaide (it's in their house, and it's good)
http://sandradodd.com/museum (near the bottom)
This is just cool for me: a quote of mine on a tile clock:
http://sandradodd.blogspot.com/2013/04/my-quote-on-clock.html
In March and early April, 2014, Joyce Fetteroll and I are going to visit Schuyler Waynforth in Australia. We will take the opportunity to run Always Learning Live presentations and discussions in several cities. Plans are still forming up, and the schedule will appear and solidify gradually here:
http://speakingsandradodd.blogspot.com/p/fall-2013-australia-and-india.html
I found a 1998 article that wasn't published. It has some bits I can use for Just Add Light.
http://sandradodd.com/sustainable
I have a regular column in The Homeschooler magazine, which is now available for subscription within the U.S. For many years it was The California Homeschooler, and was published for members of the HomeSchool Association of California. The magazine is in transition to a slightly larger issue. The next issue will have my interview with Schuyler Waynforth, and you can get to more information and subscription information here:
http://www.hsc.org/magazine.html
I'm named in two articles in the current online issue of The Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning.
In "The Challenges and Benefits of Unschooling, According to 232 Families Who Have Chosen that Route", I'm cited as the third most named influence on people's choice to unschool (after Holt and Gatto).
http://jual.nipissingu.ca/NewIssue/v7141.pdf
I'm cited in "Unschooling, Then and Now," by Kellie Rolstad and Kathleen Kesson, professors of education whose children were/are unschooled.
http://jual.nipissingu.ca/NewIssue/v7142.pdf
Some notes and the sound recording of a talk on Flow I gave in September 2006:
http://sandradodd.com/flow
Why do people unschool? New writing by Jihong Larson added, to the right:
http://sandradodd.com/why
Interview, podcast, me about unschooling for over an hour, if you can stand that sort of thing.
Unschooling and Yoga Philosophy – An Interview with Sandra Dodd, by Cate Stillman, January 2013, free to download, or listen at the provided link.
http://sandradodd.com/listen/yoga
The photo's a link.
Edited chat on Food, eating
page 162-174 of The Big Book of Unschooling (2009 edition)
online chat, January 9, 2013
http://sandradodd.com/chats/bigbook/pages_162-174_food.html
Edited chat,
Chores, Serving others as a gift, tales of kids helping out voluntarily
http://sandradodd.com/chats/bigbook/pages_175-184_choreServe.html
More, and great, on Minecraft (new page; third of three; the others are linked there)
http://sandradodd.com/minecraft
Edited chat on Gratitude, including the full text of page 185 of The Big Book of Unschooling
http://sandradodd.com/chats/bigbook/page_185_gratitude.html
Printed-article version of Unexpected Benefits of Unschooling, with a history going back a few years, but new on my site last month.
http://sandradodd.com/unexpectedarticle
Some terminology can be misleading.
An old URL has become a directory page!
http://sandradodd.com/wordswords
Two new pages related to that:
Freedom and unschooling
http://sandradodd.com/freedomThe problem with "education":
http://sandradodd.com/education
New wisdom by Joyce Fetteroll, first box on the right (scroll down a bit):
http://sandradodd.com/phrases
New by Colleen Prieto, on helping others in the family (second item):
http://sandradodd.com/chores/gift
The Fabric of an Unschooling Life (new page I had not previously announced):
http://sandradodd.com/fabric
Mudança Gradual, traduzido por Marta Pires ("Gradual Change" in Portuguese)
http://sandradodd.com/portuguese/gradual
Feedback from a Christian perspective (page is new; writing is not):
http://sandradodd.com/feedback/christian
Second quote righthand column, beautiful new quote from Katy Barrett:
http://sandradodd.com/change/
Page is new, sound file is not as new, but has its own page now.
http://sandradodd.com/bignoisypeace
On the Screen Time page, new (Joyce, in the on the right).
A quote:
"Stop looking at the door. See the richness that exists beyond the door."
http://sandradodd.com/screentime
Three new images and links, righthand column, about 2/5 of the way down:
http://sandradodd.com/bigbook/
Marta Pires has put subtitles on the "Doing Life Right" video of me, second image, here:
http://sandradodd.com/portuguese/
Added to my page on Joyce Fetteroll, links to entries in her blog Radical Unschooling Philosophy Illustrated
http://sandradodd.com/joycefetteroll
Long version of an interview that (in edited form) appeared in HSC's magazine recently:
http://sandradodd.com/hsc/interviews/joyce
Ideas about strengthening marriages and avoiding divorce, from mainstream sites:
http://sandradodd.com/divorcereasons
Sylvia Woodman found a typo that made a difference, and I've fixed it. She wrote:
"I was reading the Negativity page and I noticed a small typo. You have a quote from the book of Proverbs "better a dinner of herbs with love" it should be Proverbs 15:17 (not 7). It's a small thing and probably only geeks like me would check but I thought that you would like to know."
http://sandradodd.com/negativity
Nancy gave it to me correctly, but I "typoed" it when I added it to a second page. Here is the first (and correct from the beginnning) citation, on a page called "Advantages of Eating in Peace." It's in a good set of similar examples by me and Schuyler:
http://sandradodd.com/eating/peace
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A story of what happened when someone opened The Big Book randomly (first under "Newest")
http://sandradodd.com/bigbook/
Last month I was published in two magazines and I'll be a regular columnist in one of them.
The HomeSchooler (formerly The California HomeSchooler, still published by the Home School Association of California (HSC), but gearing up to go national
and
Pathways to Family Wellness.The first carried an interview of Joyce Fetteroll, which is not yet on my site. The second reprinted of my article "Rejecting a Pre-Packaged Life," and they laid it out beautifully. http://sandradodd.com/joyPaths (Click to enlarge it there or read it here.)
Mary Burrows has put my words on some tile plaques. I own one of each. They're really attractive. I'm glad to share the link to her Etsy site. My "cut" is to get an occasional tile. :-)
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