new art

Bo King, a young adult friend of our family, has done new art work for the unschooling section of the website. We need to tweak it a bit to put it on the main unschooling page, and Holly and I are in Minnesota for a week, but it's in a couple of places now, in two forms:
http://sandradodd.com
http://sandradodd.com/whateveryouenter (404 error page)

I requested a tree with three baby dancing trees, artistically kinda like The Flame in the Animaniacs cartoon about the Declaration of Indepence and Sideshow Bob's hair, and look how well he did it.

I love those trees. Thanks, Bo!

strewing, guarantees, Gilligan...

Something new from Pam Sorooshian, on strewing (second item):
http://sandradodd.com/strew/sandra

Me, on risks and guarantees...
People on the AlwaysLearning list have seen it:
http://sandradodd.com/guarantee

Phrases to Hear and Avoid
http://sandradodd.com/phrases
Something new in the box to the right.

I've added a link to this page to my unschooling page (under other voices) and my blog (other unschooling sites):
http://www.freewebs.com/ohthethinksyoucanthink/radicalunschooling.htm
It belongs to a mom in New Zealand, and I really like it.

There's a new story on the Gilligan's Island page:
http://sandradodd.com/t/gilligan

In a week and a half I'm speaking in Minnesota. Holly's going with me.
Information is here:
http://www.homeschoolers.org/annual_conference

American postage rates and policies changed recently, and it's made it harder and more expensive for me to mail books, so I raised the shipping rates closer to the new rates. Canada's is worst. Sorry. I'm hoping it won't need to be changed for a long time now, though.
http://sandradodd.com/bookorder

a few odd changes

For those who would prefer a checklist-style directory, here it is:
http://sandradodd.com/contents
Maybe you can read my whole website after all! (Nah, not really—but you might feel a greater sense of a accomplishment if you print it out and check things off, if you like that sort of thing...)

If you think you've missed some new pages, check back in this blog!

The ordering page for Moving a Puddle has been amended. The price is up a bit on every category of shipping. I was collecting $4 and spending $4.60 for the stamp.
http://sandradodd.com/bookorder


There are a few new things on the anti-TV page (yeah, I have an anti-TV page—a gallery of illogic and booga-booga, including now a new one that says TV triggers autism). The additions are the box on the right halfway down, and the three images, lower left (which lead to outside sites).
http://sandradodd.com/t/anti

I spent most of the afternoon sifting through my site changing all the "Peaceful Parenting" to the phrase "Parenting Peacefully." Unfortunately and inexplicably, someone has trademarked the term "Peaceful Parenting," and has threatened to make me pay legal fees because I didn't roll and say "sorry" the first time she told me I couldn't use those two words together anymore. Interesting, huh? I guess if I'm giving it away she can't make as much money trying to sell it.

Recent photos of my wonderful children are here:
http://sandradodd.blogspot.com/2007/09/internet-warning.html

Thanks for your interest, and I hope September is full of fun for your family.

Sandra

alphabet, unschooling panel, Kirby

https://sandradodd.com/alphabet.html
More content to come, but it's pretty.

https://sandradodd.com/panel
A follow-up of the Unschooling panel from the HSC conference in Sacramento, California a week and a half ago. If anyone has photos I'd love to use a couple from that day. I saw some cameras being used!

http://sandradodd.blogspot.com/2007/08/kirbys-gone-to-austin-now.html

http://sandradodd.blogspot.com/2007/08/kirby-internet-phones.html
Recent updates on Kirby's now-completed move to Austin. He's 21 and he's gone into the world.


You'll probably hear from me again soon. I have some pages roughed in, and Marty and Holly are leaving tomorrow for twelve days. Working on webpages seems a good plan.

cake, paradigm shifts and Joyce-logic

Ratings of Things you Put on a Birthday Cake (fun site; once you're there, poke around a bit).

I added that to my cake site:
https://sandradodd.com/cake

More on "Getting It" and making the shift to unschooling is here:
https://sandradodd.com/unschool/gettingit

and more of Joyce's refreshingly stunning logic, in response to some more-clever-than-usual anti-TV arguments:
https://sandradodd.com/joyce/logic

Thanks, Kelly Lovejoy, for sending those last two exchanges. They're great.

The word on the lyrics game at the moment is drum (drum/drums/drumming).
https://lyricsgame.blogspot.com

rules, nations, lyrics

Some thoughts about rules:
http://sandradodd.com/rules
New piece at the bottom of that, about 14 year old girls and rules in different families

Nations of the World
http://sandradodd.com/geography/nations
just the beginnings of something, but kinda fun

The Lyrics Game continues; current word is "Party."

Perhaps I have mentioned how much I love the internet. I just adore the opportunity to share photos and music and ideas with people around the world, so quickly, without having to dress up or leave home. Thanks for being part of my fun internet experience.

Playing Encore online

I've set up a lyrics game.

Some of you have played Encore before (some of you have played it with me!)

I'm making an attempt to play a version of it online, just for fun.

http://lyricsgame.blogspot.com/

If you want to come and play, the current word is "farm."

If that sounds fun and if you can think (THINK, not google) of eight words of a song that contain "farm" (or farming or farmer), go and put it in as a comment.

Sandra

expectations, video games, science

New page: Expectations
Robyn Coburn, on expectations, and lots of links.
http://sandradodd.com/expectations

Existing page: Tales of Happy Video Gamers
http://sandradodd.com/game/tales
The second entry there is new to the site.

New page just a minute ago (as I'm writing this): Science
http://sandradodd.com/science
That will grow, but it's got enough for a beginning.

(Gratuitous Photo of Holly, who is in Rhode Island this week.)

oops... wrong blog

"Flowers, compost, patience, trees" is here:
http://sandradodd.blogspot.com/2007/06/flowers-compost-patience-trees.html

That was yard news, not site news. Very sorry.

change, attitude, subjects and respect

Susan, on UnschoolingBasics reported very clearly a day on which she
changed, and her perspective changed.
http://sandradodd.com/change (fourth thing down, I think)

Attitude and Unschooling
http://sandradodd.com/attitude
This is another of those pages I made and forgot about, and didn't
link to my main page (I have now), so I added the third column of
links (including "change," the one above this one) and ta-daa!

Subjects
http://sandradodd.com/subjects
The page isn't new, but some of the links had been put in blank, on
speculation and hope I would eventually create them all. They've
existed for a while, but I had forgotten to go and fill in the
blanks. All workable now!

Respect (and kids who are aggressive and seem difficult)
http://sandradodd.com/robyn/respect
I've added some very wise advice Robyn Coburn gave to a mom who said
her five-year-old son was becoming "aggressive and mean."

music, "Yes", connections

Something beautiful and new about saying YES
http://sandradodd.com/yesagain

Connections, and The Day the Universe Changed,
both James Burke series largely about the history of science, and how one development leads to another...
Jocelyn Vilter found much online information and links to YouTube videos.
I've put the links here:
http://sandradodd.com/connections, in the box on the right.

Addition of music to the music page:
http://sandradodd.com/music/
and that will change from time to time

This is not the one that's at the link above; this is the one I made for MySpace, after Holly showed me how to do it. You can make one too (you can make several; I also have one at http://sandradodd.com/strew/simpsons)

You can make your own, or look through other people's, at
ProjectPlaylist.com
(or click "create a playlist" on anyone else's player).

changes, driver's ed and research

Seeing changes in ourselves and our children:

A report by Kerryn in Australia, and a good quote from Pam Sorooshian:
"As we get older and our kids grow up, we eventually come to realize that all the big things in our lives are really the direct result of how we've handled all the little things."
http://sandradodd.com/change

"A Mom's-Eye View of Driver's Ed" written when Holly became a driver, with photos of Kirby, Marty, Holly and of Brett Henry's first truck.
http://sandradodd.com/driversed

Two things have been added at the bottom of this page, about what people want to know and why. (Hard to describe briefly, but worth a read!)
http://sandradodd.com/research