Responding to others; strewing;

New page, new writing by Rippy Dusseldorp about how to respond to people who ask about your lack of a curriculum, with links to several other (mostly forgotten) pages that had ideas for dealing with relatives and friends
http://sandradodd.com/response

More clarification and examples, on strewing:
http://sandradodd.com/strew/strew
(More by Colleen Prieto)

Thoughts about finishing what you start (with links to logic, choices and how to unschool, and with new writing in the righthand column, also by Rippy Dusseldorp)
http://sandradodd.com/finishwhatyoustart

Spooky scary "Screen Time"

I'm going to let this one have its own announcement post because it's just so overwhelming for some people.
http://sandradodd.com/screentime

Too fast, Addiction, Leiden follow-up

Too far, too fast (new page)
http://sandradodd.com/problems/toofar

Addiction? False claims of "addiction" and how to prevent the real deal:
http://sandradodd.com/addiction.html

Follow-up page from the gathering in Leiden
A Day in Leiden with Sandra Dodd http://sandradodd.com/leiden

"Appearances" and opportunities in person

June 30, I'm speaking for a full day in Leiden, the Netherlands.
http://sandradoddleiden.wordpress.com/

July 15, I'm speaking for a full day in Ashford, Surrey, UK
http://www.lttl.org.uk/timings.html

August 3-5, I'll speak each day at least once at the HSC conference in Sacramento (Pam Sorooshian, too, and maybe others who are on this list)
http://www.hscconference.com/main.html

October 14-18, Florida, with Holly Dodd, speaking with me once.
Keith will be there too, but not speaking.)
http://floridaunschoolingconference.com/
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October 14 – 18, 2012 Treasure Island Florida
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December 27-29, Albuquerque (with several people from this discussion!)
http://sandradodd.com/all/registration

2013 will have

Minnesota (in April with Jill Parmer and Alex Polikowsky) http://allunschoolingminnesota2013.blogspot.co.uk/
Lisbon (May, with Joyce Fetteroll and Marta Borges Pires) http://sandradoddemlisboa.blogspot.co.uk/
Selkirk, Scotland (with Joyce Fetteroll and Julie Daniel)
Probably near London again with Joyce Fetteroll
(possibly other places too, but I'm listing the most committed)
In fall, two or three cities in Australia with Joyce Fetteroll and Schuyler Waynforth http://speakingsandradodd.blogspot.co.uk/
Yes, but in 2014, March and early April.

Physicality, Integrity

Addition of ideas posted by Meredith Novak: http://sandradodd.com/physicality/

More information and links on the role of integrity in unschooling: http://sandradodd.com/integrity

Unschoolers and college; the effects of strewing

Pam Sorooshian, on the graduation from college of her three daughters:
http://sandradodd.com/college

New page on the effects of strewing:
http://sandradodd.com/strew/strew

Videos, travels

Ainhoa Pérez found a typo that was keeping people from getting to the third transcript Katherine Anderson did. http://sandradodd.com/video The portal is restored. And the reason it came up is that Ainhoa is in Spain and is working with a friend on a translation of those transcripts.

I'm at the campground where families from France and Switzerland are gathering for three days of hanging out with two presentations every afternoon. It's raining. I'm staying with the organizer, Claire Darbaud, and her children in a two-bedroom cabin with a kitchen, living room and big porch with another table and chairs. It's all made of plastic, has sliding doors, lots of shelves and storage, comes with dishes... very cool. I'll put photos on my blog at some point.

Photos and reports of my travels so far are here:

http://sandradodd.blogspot.com

Blake Boles, video about *me* (and his book)

This is in reference to a donation to the project to fund Blake's new book which launches June 8 (tomorrow!) http://www.blakeboles.com/my-books/

Gradual Change, Solitude, Choices in French

Gradual Change, second item new, by Pam Sorooshian:
http://sandradodd.com/gradualchange

Time for Solitude, new page inspired by some writing by Connie Coyle
http://sandradodd.com/being/home.html

French translations by Catherine Goudouchaouri:
http://sandradodd.com/betterchoice.html
(First paragraph, translated on the same page; Pam Sorooshian's words)
and
http://sandradodd.com/french/expectations
(of Robyn Coburn's Expectations )

Clicking the image will take you to a post at Just Add Light and Stir.

Book Discounts

#1 because I'll be away from home for ten weeks or so, beginning tomorrow, I'm going to disable book orders from my site, but

#2 you can get them from Lulu.com, and they have a special until May 18 (link below), and

#3 you can order directly from Amazon (without shipping, if you have an Amazon Prime account).

Direct Amazon links:

The Big Book of Unschooling

Moving a Puddle

Minecraft, Nest, Add Light and Stir

Learning from Minecraft
sandradodd.com/videogames/minecraftlearning
a new page joins the Minecraft page you might already have seen, but for the benefit of new readers...
sandradodd.com/videogames/minecraft

New bit on Building an Unschooling Nest, third section or so, Caren and Pam:
sandradodd.com/nest

Just Add Light and Stir has over 1000 e-mail subscribers not, and over 400 by other blog-notification means.
My daughter Holly created a facebook page for Just Add Light, after I used one of her friends' photos (David Jio)
and yesterday I used one by her boyfriend.

The facebook page is here:
http://www.facebook.com/JustAddLightAndStir

Breathing, socialization and cake

Something new, about yoga at work, and parenting is work!! (Work you can't well leave, so the info can be very useful, right away.)
http://sandradodd.com/breathing

Socialization, new link to an outside blog, upper lefthand photo (in the "all photos are links" section)
and I put something short there (top) from a talk I gave.
http://sandradodd.com/socialization/

Cake (new cake by Marin Holmes, first in the lefthand column)
The page is about what cakes represent, and the juju of cake sacrifice, but the art is just FUN!
http://sandradodd.com/cake