Tentative but likely:
June 4, afternoon or evening, Montreal
http://www.montrealhomelearners.ca/
For sure!
June 7-10, Great Big Happy Life Unschoolers' Conference Retreat
Camp Vacamas - West Milford, New Jersey
http://www.greatbighappylife.com/
I was looking for a place to save a quote from Jill (from the chat), and some discussion about children hitting and throwing things. I searched for "hit" in the place where posts can be edited, and only found these:
Biscochitos, and Hitler
http://sandradodd.com/bizcochitos
http://sandradodd.com/hitler.html
I should add photos to the bizcochitos.
But here's where the other things went:
http://sandradodd.com/destructive
and
http://sandradodd.com/attitude, which has enough links to keep anyone busy for an hour or three, so don't forget your kids.
Something new by Joyce Fetteroll, at the bottom of a page you might not have seen at all (or lately):
http://sandradodd.com/priorities
Principles (It's not just another word for "rules"!)
http://sandradodd.com/chats/rules
Direct effects of watching television (new writing by Deb Lewis, at the bottom):
http://sandradodd.com/t/whatif.html
and that reminds me of Jacki's daughter Hannah's experience, in the box at right on this page:
TV, Learning, Choices and FOOD—How Unschoolers Watch TV
http://sandradodd.com/t/holly
If the photo has been used before, it deserves to be seen again!
Two things on breathing:
Schuyler Waynforth's account of learning, in Japan when her children were very young, the value of learning to calm herself:
http://sandradodd.com/breathing (bottom of the page)
and the transcript of a chat on breathing
http://sandradodd.com/chats/breathing
There's a peaceful, warm new image on the sleep directory page, lower right, with a link to its home:
http://sandradodd.com/sleep
Following a question concerning people taking teens out of high school to unschool there right near the end, other ideas and links were added here:
http://sandradodd.com/teen/latertounschooling
How playing with My Little Pony inspired a career in science:
http://sandradodd.com/mylittlepony
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A new quote by Joyce on balance and what unschooling is, 2/3 of the way down on the right:
http://sandradodd.com/balance
Some kids flit from interest to interest instead of having a single obsession. More will be added to this page, but here's a start:
http://sandradodd.com/flitting
A girl was interested in fashion design and her mom told her she needed to study math from a textbook. Unfortunately, the mom told the Always Learning list. This page is also still being added to, but here are ideas for things to do for a girl interested in fashion design, and the things she could learn from that interest.
http://sandradodd.com/connections/design
Pam Sorooshian is blogging again, and I've listed her blog on my Pam page.
http://learninghappens.wordpress.com/
http://sandradodd.com/pamsorooshian
New quote from Schuyler Waynforth added to the page on negativity. How to become more positive in the moment, and then in the long term!
http://sandradodd.com/negativity
Success with Later Unschooling? A link corrected.
http://sandradodd.com/later/unschooling
(Thanks to Pamela Knapp for finding the problem AND finding the correct link for me!)
TV page, another corrected link.
http://sandradodd.com/tv
PRESCHOOL TELEVISION VIEWING AND ADOLESCENT TEST SCORES
Eva Witzel found that the PDF for "Preschool Television Viewing and Adolescent Test Scores" had been moved to a new URL, and she sent the new link to me. It's all fixed now.
Amanda Horein found many links broken at
http://sandradodd.com/world
Most of them were geocities sites, which were all taken down (after a year of warnings) last year.
While I was in there, I added The Mahogany Way, a ning for mothers of color:
http://themahoganyway.ning.com/
If you would like to share a photo of your child or your children for use in Unschooling: The Movie, please go here to read more and for an e-mail link, already filled out with permission to use the photo:
http://unschooling.info/photosneeded.html
A new page on what to consider if there is frustration in a marriage:
http://sandradodd.com/separation
It will be expanded, but the list of considerations that's already there is by Glenda Sikes.
I can tell you how this is about unschooling, but not in one or two lines. It's about the connections that both unschooling and the internet makes possible, about what kinds of people become unschoolers, and about looking back, and forward.
http://sandradodd.com/perfectvision
If anyone reading here was in Cambridge (England's Cambridge) in the 1980's or knows people who were, maybe forward that. I'd love to have more on the page. Memories. Photos, maybe. Posters.
If you're on Facebook, please check out a new group called Radical Unschooling Info, the purpose of which is to help provide good unschooling resources to anyone who comes by there. I created the page, but many others are contributing to it. Come and help us out if you want to!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=303347574750
"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." —Pam Sorooshian, June 4, 2007
New page on starting to unschool later:
http://sandradodd.com/later/unschooling
A new review of The Big Book of Unschooling, by a two-year-old (kind of) here:
http://sandradodd.com/bigbook
(not kind of a two-year-old, but kind of a review!)
The discussions on the Always Learning list have been intense of late, and the side benefit of intensity is really good responses. Schuyler's been posting, too, for those of you who missed her. If you're on and haven't been reading, maybe check out the past few topics.
https://groups.io/g/AlwaysLearning/topics
New page on the damaging myth of "sugar high":
http://sandradodd.com/eating/sugar
New search tool, which searches unschooling.com, unschooling.info, Danielle Conger's "Connections ezine," Joyfully Rejoycing and my site:
http://unschooling.blogspot.com
Later note: Abandoned again. It's okay.
The old Unschooling.info site had decayed and then found its demise, but I was given the name and the keys and it's being remodelled here:
http://unschooling.info
My original hope had been to mine the message board for the good parts, and I did get some, but folders were mysteriously disappearing though the settings said they should remain. It was dismaying. But here's an opportunity to have a general resource site for different kinds of unschooling in one place, perhaps, depending who contributes and volunteers.
Not all the pages are working yet, and I'm not in a huge hurry, but did want to keep all the thousands of links out there from hitting a dead end.
Anyone interested in helping or keeping up with the progress should subscribe to this yahoo group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unschINFO/
Another shocking but true tale of children turning down sweets:
http://sandradodd.com/eating/sweets
Nancy, righthand column.
That's one of the coolest pages on the site.
Kate O'Mara's review of my Big Book of Unschooling
http://whenkateblogs.blogspot.com/2010/01/sandra-dodds-big-book-of-unschooling.html
I've changed the index page of my site, a bit. Newer photos; more than one. Better link to the books.
http://sandradodd.com/
There's a new link on the TV page:
http://sandradodd.com/tv
(to Is "I Love Lucy" Educational? by Jan Hunt, The Natural Child Project)
The Santa Fe Unschooling Symposium was really fun, and tiring. There are photos here, and might be more eventually:
http://santafeunschoolingsymposium.blogspot.com/
Kirby took that photo of me (top right) there.
Two things not fully about unschooling, but I can justify listing them:
More on the letter David Bowie wrote me in 1967, including a bit about Holly (which she considers to be a misquote or a bad angle on what she said:
http://sandradodd.com/bowieletter
and an interesting connection (small-world shock) about my little pump organ:
http://sandradodd.com/organ
(a block of notes near the bottom)