 photo by Sarah Dickinson |
I have added two new collection pages by unschooling moms whose writing has helped many other families:
Clare Kirkpatrick, in the U.K.
Jo Isaac, in Australia
In response to my request for assistance in November, I received photos for use in Just Add Light and Stir, from:
| Jennie Gomes Meghan Pawlowski Lynda Raina Nicole Kenyon Becky Sekeres Celeste Burke Andrea Justice Eva Witsel Katy Jennings Sam and Jasmine Baykus | Megan Valnes Marin Holmes Elise Lauterbach Nancy Machaj Susan Gaissert Julie Markovitz Jane Clossick Andrea Taylor Abby Davis Sukayna and Ruqayya | Julie T Murtaza Usman Shannon Loucks Susan Waters Talia Bartoe Rachel Singer Janelle Wrock Heather Booth Charles Legacé |
 photo by Nicole Kenyon and it's a link. |
I've added a quote about being a child's partner to this page:
http://sandradodd.com/partners/child
It's my writing. I found it on Just Add Light. Sometimes I write something new there. Perhaps I was quoting myself from a discussion, but I usually note that.
The quote is:
There are WONDROUS things people can do with current technology, and it's likely to get better and better, isn't it?Don't separate your children from the future, from progress, and from understanding and using things just because the parents don't understand them or use them as well as they might. Don't hobble your child out of fear or superstition or trying to impress people you don't even know who want to scare and shame you. Be your child's partner. Lift him up and let him see.
Be your child's partner. Lift him up and let him see.
Do you have a daughter and not a son? Lift her up and let her see.
Do you have more than one? Lift them up and let them see.
The names of the pages sound scary, but the ideas are all about more peace.
If any of this disturbs you, go back to the movie link and find something bright and funny!
This 2010 page about movies for unschoolers has a new list added, upper right:
SandraDodd.com/t/movies
Joyce, on how fears are formed and maintained (and how to avoid that), added, bottom:
http://sandradodd.com/fear
New, by Jen Keefe on being a more joyful mother, upper right:
http://sandradodd.com/negativity
An argument against watching the news on TV, for mothers of young children
http://sandradodd.com/news
Photo (a link) by Janine Davies
New, about communicating with a spouse, under the photo of Noor:
http://sandradodd.com/screentime.html
First it was photos, and now it's writing! Janine Davies has blossomed, and I started collecting:
http://sandradodd.com/janine
I was going to link a podcast Amy Childs did of the dregs and leftovers of interviews—things I said that didn't fit anywhere else. The photo at right is by Janine Davies, who is linked above. Click the photo for a quote that ends "it needs to be their new, improved, mindful heart," which then has a link to where it came from. You can hear candid outtakes, as it were, of me about various unschooling ideas.