Sunday, June 29, 2014

Spouses, Bonding, "Behind"

 photo hollyhall.jpgSomething new at the bottom, about peace with spouses (works for children, too), from Rippy Dusseldorp
http://sandradodd.com/spouses

Bonding, with addition of writing by Caren Knox and Joyce Fetteroll at the bottom:
http://sandradodd.com/bonding

New page with something by Debbie Regan about whether an unschooled child can "be behind."
http://sandradodd.com/behind

Sunday, June 22, 2014

Service, School, Small Words

 photo IMG_0952.jpgNew on the "service" page, by Manuela Jaramillo, righthand column, partway down:
http://sandradodd.com/service

School might be better for some kids. New, by Karen James at
http://sandradodd.com/school/

More added to the page looking at lyrics and poetry using almost all native English words:
http://sandradodd.com/smallwords

Saturday, June 21, 2014

Interviews by video and podcast, new this week

Amy Childs has done a beautiful podcast about Learn Nothing Day. Besides my voice and Amy's, you can hear Alex Polkowsky, Hema Bharadwaj, Julie Daniel, and Amy's daughter Kayla.

http://unschoolingsupport.com/learn-nothing-day/
(Sound file, fifteen minutes)

a couple of links to go with that:
"Try not to learn. Don't try to learn. Those two aren't the same thing but they're close enough for beginners." (from the last paragraph of this 1998 interview: An Interview with Sandra Dodd

Criticism of Learn Nothing Day: http://sandradodd.com/learnnothingday/critics



Yvonne Laborda and María José Cifuentes interviewed me on June 17, from Spain.



It will be at http://sandradodd.com/spanish, with two others from María José Cifuentes' video hangout shows.

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Why we unschooled, feedback, open, half empty

"Why we unschooled" (written a few years ago, about a story from 1990 or so)
This is on my blog, but I suppose some of those posts should be included as resources. I won't announce all of them, but you can subscribe there if you're interested in more personal things about me or my family.
http://sandradodd.blogspot.com/2014/06/why-we-unschooled.html

Nice feedback, lefthand column. I don't save all of it (some I print and put in a special box without quoting elsewhere), but these seemed special.
http://sandradodd.com/feedback/

New page on being open to things, people, life:
http://sandradodd.com/open

Older page I thought had been announced, because I had used it on Just Add Light and Stir
http://sandradodd.com/boredom/halfempty
It has a good story, so I'm glad I discovered it hadn't been announced yet! and I added a bit.

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Gratitude, Tree of Knowledge, Maslow

Gratitude—living with gratitude all the time. (Additions at the top of the page.)
http://sandradodd.com/gratitude/

A new image (a video Alex Polikowsky showed me) has been added to this page
http://sandradodd.com/bookmotif
and I quoted from that (obscure) page on Just Add Light and Stir

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (serious and humorous)
http://sandradodd.com/maslow


Photo of a lone tree by the side of a two-lane highway in southern New Mexico, in early morning sun.
(Links to a Just Add Light and Stir post.)