All new pages:
Here are some comments about when and natural learning starts to really show, and what it looks like.
New in the middle of this page:
http://sandradodd.com/deschoolingcomments
"... That has now changed and he has many interests—baking, voice-acting, chemistry, comedy writing, the Rennaisance (thanks, Merlin and the BBC!), and on and on. He had to find a peaceful home in himself before he could start to decorate it with knowledge."
Without deschooling on the child's part:
http://sandradodd.com/feedback/betsyS
"It's all come true...the kindness, the respect, the sparkle."
Four articles (two by me, one by Pam Sorooshian and one by Deb Lewis) and ten "Just Add Light and Stir" posts are now linked on the French page.
SandraDodd.com/french
Thanks to Catherine Goudouchaouri, Claire Rakotonimaro, and Edith Chabot, of the UK, France and Quebec, respectively, for these gifts of translation! Please pass the links on to anyone who might want more unschooling input in French.
The new pages are:
Imagination De Deb Lewis - Traduit par Catherine Goudouchaouri
Respirer Traduit par Catherine Goudouchaouri
Pam Sorooshian's "I LIVE THEREFORE I LEARN: Living an Unschooling Life.", a translation by Claire Rakotonimaro
L'école dans ma tête Traduit par Edith Chabot
Also by Edith Chabot, from Just Add Light and Stir:
"Out of Pink Crayons"
http://sandradodd.com/pinkcrayons
Transcriptions of things published many years ago, but never on my site until now.
On the day I wrote the first part, Holly was two years old, nearly three. She's twenty years old now. The follow-up was written at the end of 1999 or beginning of 2000, because Holly was eight and Marty was ten. There's only a small window between their birthdays.
There are photos and links to other photos, too. Anyone who thinks of me as the mother of young adults can visit a time I had nap-taking children I could carry around on my hip.
I had posted something here that I meant to post at http://unschooling.blogspot.com/2011/11/womanmagazine-uk.html
Something else new but not on my site is a new link to a review of this last summer's London conference: http://www.lttl.org.uk/ The fourth link is new to the site, and she especially liked Schuyler's presentation.
Just Add Light and Stir continues.
This note is here so that anyone who got an earlier e-mail and tries to follow it back won't be frustrated. :-)
Have a nice November!
Over the next many-months, I will be speaking and hanging out here:
The ALL Unschooling Symposium
Albuquerque
December 28-31, 2011
http://sandradodd.com/all
It will be small, but is already international, with a family from Ontario, Canada, and one from Sussex, England.
HENA
Tempe, Arizona March 31/April 1, 2012
(no link yet, except the state org: http://www.hena.us/ )
Site lost; cancelled for this year.
Life is Good
Vancouver Washington
May 24-27, 2012
Either before or after that, late Spring or June/July, The LiTTLe Conferencein London (if they have a 2012 conference) and so perhaps in Edinburgh, and probably, if the trip happens, I'll speak in Leiden, in the Netherlands.
Directory of chat transcripts, each on one section of The Big Book of Unschooling
http://sandradodd.com/chats/bigbook/directory
To subscribe to chat announcements, join this list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChatNote/
Chats are gone; yahoogroups is gone.
I've added 88 pages to the random page generator:
https://sandradodd.com/random
They're all new in the past year and some, but many are from this month. Now the random generator has 734 links. Have fun!
New on clarity of thought and expression, lower left:
http://sandradodd.com/clarity
Skepticism and the nature of unschooling
(skip this if you're in a light and fluffy mood)
I've added to the top of the page, and to the bottom.
The middle part was announced here in August, 2006.
http://sandradodd.com/skepticism
Barnes & Noble has electronic versions of my books on their site now.
Nook Book Version of The Big Book of Unschooling
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/big-book-of-unschooling-sandra-dodd/1105701706?ean=9781257152254&itm=1&usri=9781257152254
Nook Book Version of Moving a Puddle
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/moving-a-puddle-sandra-dodd/1105698350?ean=9781257174911&itm=1&usri=9781257174911
When I first submitted these books to Lulu.com, Moving a Puddle had color pictures, but they advised after that to put photos in black and white. So The Big Book has b&w photos. Bummer in retrospect. At least in the iBook versions, anyway, Moving a Puddle has color images! :-)
iTunes:
Moving a Puddle
http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/moving-a-puddle/id441773032?mt=11
The Big Book of Unschooling
http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/big-book-of-unschooling/id441277658?mt=11
Schuyler Waynforth, about a forgotten anniversary, and contentment:
http://sandradodd.com/spouses
(upper left)
Ben Lovejoy, four new pages to add to the one article I had. Three came from "Connections," and one Ben sent me in May, when I was in England, and it was lost in the shuffle until now!
http://sandradodd.com/benlovejoy
is the directory page, and the newly-presented information is here:
"No Rules-Sir ,Yes Sir" (Ben's life, the military, being an unschooling dad)
http://sandradodd.com/lovejoy/norules.html
A Look Back (movies, families)
http://sandradodd.com/lovejoy/alookback.html
Following our Passions to Bonnaroo (music, road trips, relationships)
http://sandradodd.com/lovejoy/bonnaroo.html
The Stories of Our Families (the value of storytelling)
http://sandradodd.com/lovejoy/stories.html
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The Connections ezine site will not be maintained by its owner, and I was told to grab what I wanted before it was gone. One month, my first book was featured as a resource, and I've saved that page, with its reviews, here:
http://sandradodd.com/feedback/puddlebookreviews
A new part, second in, here, on how to strew:
http://sandradodd.com/strew/how
Two new bits up top on the co-sleeping page:
http://sandradodd.com/sleep/cosleeping
If someone has a good co-sleeping photo I can use there, I'd appreciate it. (I can use more than one.)
