Musings about the Meanings of Cake, with the Spartacus story http://sandradodd.com/cake (the original cake page)
Betty's Birthday:
How a Peace Corps worker learned what some African kids thought about a picture of a cake with lit candles.
(This was linked, then disappeared, and I found another version later. It's very good, and backs Kirby up.) http://sandradodd.com/cakeart/bettysbirthday
I was interviewed November 8 by a nice interviewer named Brett Veinotte, for a podcast and website he named years ago and isn't as attached to as he once was, maybe, "School Sucks." The interview went pretty well, though, and has had 641 views (maybe listens) in eight days. I start of talking VERY fast, but either I'll slow down or listeners catch up, it seems. He called it Sandra Dodd – On Unschooling and Choice"
I added that to the page of things to listen to (or to watch): http://sandradodd.com/listen/
That probably has some other things you've missed, as I've slipped a thing or two in there.
The podcast and blog are quite male focussed, which was interesting to me. I'm used to a preominantly female audience, and the producer told me 70% of their listeners are male. Brett was right there, though—sharp and quick and I like him. I had a good time talking with him.
New at the top, Emily Strength, me, on living in history
New at the bottom, the history of the entire world (nearly 20 minutes long, and has a few "bad words") http://sandradodd.com/history/
Here's a good match, but is a step away from unschooling. In those writings (SCA-related), if it says AElflaed or Ælflæd of Duckford, that's me.
Part of self awareness is to be physically self aware.
I've gotten better over the years.
When I was younger I lived too much in my head and would look through the lens of what should be, or could be, or might be, instead of stopping for two seconds to consider what actually, at that moment, was. If I'm not careful I can be cranky before I know I'm tired, and head-achy before I know I'm hungry.
Added struggling, battling, and "You do you!" to the page on phrases to hear and avoid (halfway down) http://sandradodd.com/phrases
BUT NOT ONLY THAT!
There is a new intro to that page by Deb Lewis. You might be disturbed, or amused, or both.
In 2008 I started a page called "Your Own Model of the Universe," with a nice story by one mom named Beth.
In 2018 I added more to it! http://sandradodd.com/modeloftheuniverse
Two nice pieces of Karen James' writing added (at the bottom) to http://sandradodd.com/separation,
and something by an anonymous writer, with links to two separate discussions about divorce avoidance.
Updated all the links to articles on Joyce's page on the skepticism page. I will link to its intro, not to itself: https://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com/2006/08/skepticism.html
It's an odd page, and twelve years old now. It's about adults learning about learning, I think.
To the bottom of a 2009 combo interview/chat with Pam-the-mom, I have appended the texts of two posts on a now-gone platform, in which Roya describes the earliest days of her unschooling life. The sections are called "part one of a long and fascinating story" and "part two of journey into the center of the universe." https://sandradodd.com/chats/pamsorooshian
Condemnation of a substance or interest is also condemnation of children and of non-fearful parents (additions to page): http://sandradodd.com/condemnation
Having three links about images is unusual for this blog. Usually I'm announcing things that are practical or philosophical. I can defend my doors! Strength and options are shown by those climbers. Doorways are representative of choices, of mystery, of newness. They can be symbols of history, and safety. Architecturally, and practically, in human history, doors are wonderful things.
ADDED to the page of recordings: the link above and four talks given at the HSC conferences in 2010 and 2012. They were for sale there, before, and now are freely available. Listen online or download. http://sandradodd.com/listen/
The source material from which the translator worked is here. She didn't use the first part, I think, and said she shortened the end.
This is eleven pages / nine sections from my book The Big Book of Unschooling. http://sandradodd.com/german/InfantsChildrenBigBook.pdf
Saved an interesting Q&A about "the real world," too long for the Unschool World page, so it has its own. Good writers you might recognize contributed to that 2014 question about how to keep CPS from taking unschooled kids away. http://sandradodd.com/realworld
New writing (quote by evil others and commentary by me) at the bottom of http://sandradodd.com/separation
(I was insulted, but I did not stand down.)
Addition to "self-regulation" (a page warning against that as a goal) adding "self-command" with a Jane Austen quote http://sandradodd.com/self-regulation
Transcript (a nice one) of 2010 "Class Dismissed" interview of Sandra and Kirby Dodd, and notes, and links, and video http://sandradodd.com/classDismissed
New (newly finished enough to announce) page on the claim or fear that things are "poison," and Joyce's logical responses: http://sandradodd.com/poison
There is another page at eating/poison that was announced in 2015, but the two can't be combined. The older page is called "Let them eat candy," and addresses the problem of a candy-deprived child being more likely to eat grandma's pills, or soap pods. http://sandradodd.com/eating/poison
Two different topics, but both in support of parents giving children opportunities to make their own choices, and both warning against the dangers of parental fear and over-control.
photo (a link) by Sandra Dodd
(who did not do that frosting)
A link-rich page about the idea of knowing what direction you intend to go, so that choices can be made happily and sensibly: http://sandradodd.com/direction
Somehow that page, created in late 2014, was never announced.
It's a good one!
"Reading age in unschooled kids": Jo Isaac's 2016 survey with graphs of ages at which unschoolers learned to read http://sandradodd.com/readingage.html
Collection of writings by Jo Isaac, and links to recorded interview and transcript "Redefining Success" http://sandradodd.com/joisaac/
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Because my original target audience was one unschooling mom in the U.K. in
2010, I put the post in at midnight so she would get it in the morning.
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Urgent care for my Uvula
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These were taken where I spent much of Christmas Eve morning. I love that
place, on Montgomery east of Juan Tabo, in Albuquerque. I took the photos
for the...
Glucose builds brains
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Joyce Fetteroll brought an article to an unschooling discussion, and wrote:
The article focuses on why human children spend so many years small
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Human sacrifice? Maybe...
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Part one, to which I want to add other stories. This reminds me of a story
from the book *Strange Survivals,* by Sabine Baring-Gould, which I hope to
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