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.)
"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.
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."
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)
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
Today's links both involve sound and video, so with apologies to anyone with a dial-up connection, here's the news:
Powers of Ten videos, four of them:
http://sandradodd.com/m/ten
Hear Japanese and Catalan while you're traveling through theoretical space and theoretical-sub-atomic-land.
"When I was a Lad" from H.M.S. Pinafore
Because the Pinky and the Brain parody is based on it, and because I couldn't find a page that had words and music together, nor a set of lyrics formatted to my satisfaction, I made my own page:
http://sandradodd.com/history/alad
That page links back to the Pinky and the Brain version, "A Meticulous Analysis of History"
These aren't new writings on unschooling, they're strewing opportunities and doors to exploration.
Sunday, June 3, 2007
Today in
Elvis Presley History
1949 - Elvis Presley received a school report card on which he was given an "A" in English and a "C" in Music.
1982 - Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion in Memphis, TN, opened as a tourist attraction.
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http://sandradodd.com/elvis
Maybe I never announced my Elvis page. It could use some more links. Anyone here have a favorite Elvis link or want to hunt one up? I added something to the "How Elvis Appears to Unschoolers" page too.
I came to that by following and working on links from a really new page (with a couple of addenda pages and lots of links):
http://sandradodd.com/history/songs
Be warned that it opens with music.
So far, it includes
The Battle of New Orleans (Johnny Horton)
We Didn't Start the Fire (Billy Joel)
American Pie (Don McLean)
Abraham, Martin & John (Dion)
The Meticulous Analysis of History (Pinky and the Brain)
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Deb Lewis was inspired by Kelly Lovejoy saying "Even Neanderthals learned!" and her response is well worth a read:
http://sandradodd.com/deblewis/cavemen
There's a new piece, short but sweet, on the "Getting It" page, and I
thought it would be a good page to bring to light in general:
http://sandradodd.com/unschool/gettingit
Last week when I was super-busy with other things anyway, I got a
letter (left on the wrong house, but I got it) from the State of New
Mexico department of Children Youth and Families. You might imagine
how thrilled I was not. I figured I was finally going to be called
on to defend my homeschooling or something along those lines. It was
something completely different, though, and I documented it here:
http://sandradodd.blogspot.com/2007/05/control-and-jealous- craziness.html
The background post is here:
http://sandradodd.blogspot.com/2007/05/holly-news-sandra-muse.html
and
http://sandradodd.com/blogcomments/license
Although it's not at all a classic unschooling essay or anything, I
think there are things there to make one consider the benefits of
living a life of open trustfulness (or of fearful negativity, but why
spread it around more than necessary?).
Sandra
Limits
http://sandradodd.com/limits.html
Deb Lewis wrote something great on a list I'm not on. Kelly Lovejoy forwarded it to me, and it needed a home. I went to name a file "limits" and found I already had one, with a good bit from Deb Cunefare I had saved but not formatted. I guess I knew someday I'd come back there and fix it up. Today is that day.
I wrote an introduction, threw in five reasonable links.
Pam Sorooshian's daughter, Rose, discovered one day that she could guess URL extensions for my site and lots of them were there. That's been my plan for a while. You might try it, and if you find there's a perfect keyword that's not opening a page, send me a note and I might make a redirect page to the closest existing page, or a directory page, or just build the page.
"if there is junk in the house my 3 yo will eat that and nothing else if i let him"
Another edition to the "If I let him..." page. I am attracted and repulsed by that page, but I think it's important to have. It's here:
http://sandradodd.com/ifilet
If you've never seen it, you might want to start from the bottom.
If you haven't seen it for a while, maybe read it with your own family's improvements in mind. Many of the parents who wrote those things went on to change, and their children very wonderfully proved them wrong.
http://sandradodd.com/help
This page for people curious or new to unschooling might be a good one to pass on to people who inquire, who are considering it for next year, etc. It has links to other unschooling sites, lists, podcasts, recent news articles, local contacts, the flickr photo pool, Typical Days posts, blogs, and Unschooling Voices.
And it's possible it's a page some of you didn't know about. I keep finding pages I had forgotten about. I don't mind, as long as the links are still good.
I added two links to sandradodd.com/unschooling (my main page). Neither page is new, but they hadn't been put in the alphabetical listing on the main page.
When Siblings Fight
http://sandradodd.com/peace/fighting
It's linked as "transition" on a couple of pages. The page is titled "Learning to See Differently" but I used "Transition" on the list.
http://sandradodd.com/peace/newview
If you find any bad links, please let me know!
Thanks for reading,
Sandra
http://sandradodd.com/renallen
This page isn't new, but I had failed to link it from my main unschooling page, so I wanted to make sure people were aware of it. It has links to various Ren Allen items and her blog and unschooling pages.
As usual, I make pages or add to them and forget to tell people, but I have two:
http://sandradodd.com/marty/thatmarty
Started off about the good job Marty did as MC of the talent show at Mary Gold's recent conference, and expanded a bit. And because of that (indirectly) I got another testimonial for the page about what about kids looking at internet porn (vaguely it's about that, mostly it's about... you know, the whole trusting kids thing): http://sandradodd.com/sex (down under the Marty story, I think the second item there is new, and the whole page might be new to some of you).
Holly made this with photos Marty took, sitting in a sculpture of broken carts Marty made (behind the store where he was working). I'm putting it here partly because I like it and it shows some of the things they do for fun, but partly to see if this blog format will accept wider images than the old one.