Sunday, May 26, 2013

Respect; checklists (French); rights and freedoms

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."

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Coaching kids on courtesy, Sewers, and a Minecraft Sewer

photo tmntMuseumSet.jpg
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

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Minecraft, Inspiration, European tour, a Boxwood Tree

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.