magical day, food controls and speed reading

http://sandradodd.com/typical
http://sandradodd.com/day/danielle

The first link will lead to the second. Danielle had a beautiful day described on her blog and I added it to the "Typical Days" section, with a link back to the original.

http://sandradodd.com/eating/longterm
Two new accounts of the problems with controlling food, and the surprising benefits of freedom and choices.

The page existed. The two new accounts are in the middle, after Kelly's story of the restaurant. IIt was a good page, and now it's better.

There's a new account on the speed reading page by Ria.
http://sandradodd.com/r/speed
and I've added an image of part of what would be lost by reading too fast.

health food and multiple intelligences

Health food and multiple intelligences—totally unrelated to one another:

http://sandradodd.com/eating/healthfood
Short new page on eating,
and the main food page is cleaned up and improved
http://sandradodd.com/food

I'm working on a page on Gardner's Multiple Intelligences. If you're interested, check back by Wednesday, by when I'll have added more.
http://sandradodd.com/intelligences

the heart of it; WoW reading; bedtime

http://sandradodd.com/unschool/gettingit
Short new bit added to Unschooling: Getting It

http://sandradodd.com/game/reading
Hayden reads the back of the World of Warcraft expansion set box aloud—check it out.

http://sandradodd.com/bedtime
well... bedtime! choices, sleep...

A New Math Story

One new math page and I cleaned up the others (larger margins, double-checked and update links).

http://sandradodd.com/math/think

Main math page: http://sandradodd.com/math

Updated pages:

My son knows Algebra (somehow!)
A Tale of Times Tables
An Unschooler does "Word Problems"
A letter from Wendy Petti at mathcats.com
Unschooling, Money and Math
Pam Sorooshian on Dice
Games and Math
Teens who didn't study math

Peace and Flowers (and a rant and stuff)

Sandra in the early 21st Century
http://sandradodd.com/00s

New writings added here:
http://sandradodd.com/t/holly
http://sandradodd.com/t/peace

New from Schuyler (not newly written, but newly available online):
http://sandradodd.com/schuyler/rant

Some new photos and clarifications on the Morning Glories page, a page that's brought in a couple of readers who were looking for morning glory information and found unschooling and other things.
http://sandradodd.com/morningglories

Sandra

The Blindmen and the Elephant

I wasn't going to announce this page, as it's not original writing,
nor about unschooling or the SCA.

Then I thought, all things being connected, that it might be just
the thing SOMEone needs this week, for some unknown reason, or it
might be something someone will need next week, so I might as well
put it out there.


http://sandradodd.com/theblindmenandtheelephant

Joyce found the poem a couple of years ago, and when I went today to find a text, I found slight variations, so I've tweaked this one to a matching set myself. If you find any errors, please let me know.

Quicker news, and some catch-up

I should say that the quicker and more reliable way to see site news is to join this yahoogroup:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sandradodd/

My intent is to post here what I send there, but I'm slow sometimes.

http://sandradodd.com/howto
Precisely How to Unschool, with a graph and everything!

http://sandradodd.com/robyn/respect
Some general thoughts about Respect, by Robyn Coburn

http://sandradodd.com/lists/comments
There's something new and very nice there.

Being your Child's Partner, not his Adversary
http://sandradodd.com/partners
Not new, but newly spruced up and linked back and forth.

Warm wishes and gratitude

The note below is a few months old, but I've just added it to this page of feedback: sandradodd.com/lists/comments

It's just one of many pages that people might never come across, so I thought I'd point it out to this list. I've received a couple of sweet Christmas cards with photos of kids I've never met whose lives are better because of unschooling. I wanted to thank Joyce, and Pam Sorooshian, and Deb Lewis, and others whose words have changed lives, and to thank those who come and read these ideas and try them out, and those who let others know it's working well.

As "Peace on Earth" goes, these are all very large and very real contributions.

Merry Christmas (or happy holiday of your choice).

Sandra

I just wanted to take a minute, also, to tell you how much I have appreciated the Unschooling list, and how much it really changed my life and the life of my kids. I used to be a mom who (many years ago) spanked, grounded, and did all that other stuff many "experts" in the homeschooling world proposed would help raise good kids. I'm so happy I finally figured out a better way, and I have you, Pam, and Joyce (and Ren!) to thank for it. I, in turn, have tried to pass these ideas and principles on to other people in my life, at homeschool meetings, 4H, foster parent classes, Church, etc.

It's actually been years since I've spanked, but only a few years (since joining the list) that I've learned to REALLY listen to my kids and be a much more mindful parent. Only a few years since I began saying "Yes" a lot more. My kids are happy, funny, outgoing, talented, friendly and especially thoughtful and kind to others.

links and an article

http://sandradodd.com/unschoolingotherwise
Link to a new discussion list in Panama and one in Germany.


http://sandradodd.com/peace/noisy
A Loud Peaceful Home
(if you subscribe to Danielle's ezine Connections, you might have
seen this already. The current issue has something about my kids in
driver's ed, but this is from an older issue and was made more public
at the request of a particular local unschooling group who needed it!)

There are a few more links on the Help page, and I'm sorry not to
have kept a list of them.
http://sandradodd.com/help

Another French translation, different site

http://parents.autrement.free.fr/article.php3?id_article=34

This is a translation of "Bored No More" which is: https://sandradodd.com/BoredNoMore

(This and other French translations are linked here: https://sandradodd.com/french )

(this was sent to the announcements list in November, but I forgot to put it here)

Connections

This note has been brought from an older blog in 2010, and the Connections e-zine is now freely available. There were nine issues, including the sample linked below. Issue #8 and the links to the archives: http://connections.organiclearning.org/archives.html

AWESOME!
“The piece by Sandra Dodd totally had me all welled up! ALONE it is
worth the price of subscription!”

---

Wow.

The subscription to which that reader referred is the $10
subscription to Connections, an e-zine created by Danielle Conger.

2016 note: It's all gone, but my articles and some other folks' were rescued and are on my site, various places.

There’s a sample issue here:
http://connections.organiclearning.org/Issue0/index.html

The second “real” issue will be out at the beginning of October. The
article by me last month included my Totally Scientific graph on how
much time to spend with a child at each stage of his life, and
accompanying inspirational text. The upcoming issue will have an
article based on my notes for the talk “Big Noisy Peace,” but it’s
not called that.

As you’ll see if you click on that sample, it’s an attractive set-up
with links back to all kinds of places, and there are quotes from
several unschooling mailing lists, so people can either just read the
highlights that way, or can shop for a list they might like based on
excerpts collected and provided by Danielle.

For people without the time or inclination to participate in a list
every day, this seems a great way to get various people’s opinions
without suffering through too much chit-chat. And it has photos.
Other regular contributors are Ren Allen, Deb Lewis, Ben Lovejoy and
Anne Ohman. Rue Kream has a question/answer spot.

$10 for ten issues (plus back issues) is a good deal. $1 per
carefully edited issue, and you can go back to it anytime during your
subscription period.

At first I was skeptical that it was worth doing, but I really do
like it.

Sandra

Teens, Mirrors, Art about Art

I've been waiting for these pages to feel more finished, and some have bits I have on hand to add, but before I lose track of what's unannounced, I'll put them out here. Besides, some of you might have great ideas to add.

https://sandradodd.com/teen There's another page that ends with "teens" plural, but Holly found a cool photo (she thinks Ren took it) and I thought a simpler kind of index page might be helpful.

I've been working on a set of artsy pages
https://sandradodd.com/artaboutart
https://sandradodd.com/mirrors
https://sandradodd.com/photographs

https://sandradodd.com/peace/mama I'm planning to add the photo of Kelly hugging Cameron, from 2005. Haven't yet. ←DONE.