reasons, young adults, reactions to limits

Reasons to Home School
http://sandradodd.com/pam/reasons
(new new, but new to my site!)

What about after they're not teens anymore?
http://sandradodd.com/youngadults
(If you have stories to add, send them!)

Personal account of the ill effect of limiting sugar:
http://sandradodd.com/eating/idea
(bottom of the page, but maybe read the whole page; it's short)

7th Anniversary of the AlwaysLearning List

The Always Learning List is seven years old and thriving.

Details:
sandradodd.blogspot.com/2008/11/7th-anniversary-of-always-learning-list.html

Knots, credit, French translation, and German article-to-be

A new page: Knots—Small, large, actual, rendered, real and imagined
http://sandradodd.com/math/knots

The Certificate of Empowerment is been translated into French

http://blog.korrigans.free.fr/index.php/2008/11/18/certificat-dautonomisation/

I had five months worth of my geocities website fees paid last spring by kind donors whom I've credited here:

http://sandradodd.blogspot.com/2008/11/gratitude-x-2.html

I have a new article that will be published in German first, and that's all noted there too. After they've published it and after their next-after-that issue comes out, I'll put it on my site.

a clean canvas, the richness of life, peace with teens

Gratuitous photo of the moment: Quiche (mushroom, and ham and onion in half) and cookies (oatmeal/pecan/chocolate chip)

Katy Jennings, at the bottom, about the benefits of providing clean spaces.
http://sandradodd.com/chores/shift

A richer life:
http://sandradodd.com/chores/shift
(not a new page, but I hadn't announced it before)

There's something new by Joanna Murphy here, about teens:
http://sandradodd.com/teen/benefits.html

I hope you enjoy these, and if you find any broken links or typos, please let me know!

Some other new and some improved pages are being tweaked and polished and will be announced soon.

Facets, Transcripts, Screaming

When Corn Grows Wild: Gratuitious photo, of some corn from the birdseed that grew without attention, photographed on the hood of my car last week.

Jenny C / Jenstarc on what makes unschooling work (upper right)
http://sandradodd.com/gettingit

Kelly Lovejoy, right under "transcripts":
http://sandradodd.com/teen/college

"I want to scream!"
http://sandradodd.com/chores/scream
That was three years ago. I wonder if she's still screaming?

That last one's not new, but it's obscure and in cleaning up my "life" section (non-academic aspects of what will help unschooling work—the things kids learn that they would've learned at home anyway), I thought this one might be a good sample of the greater section, which is here:
http://sandradodd.com/life

There are many links out from that, and not all have been upgraded, but many have. I've tweaked and updated many pages this weekend, few of which were worth announcing, so I'll let that screaming about chores page represent the batch.

Always Learning, John Holt, Joyce Fetteroll

The images are the misshapen mulberry leaf from my back yard whose portrait lives at AlwaysLearning; Joyce meeting a prairie dog; Joyce and Kathryn and several Albuquerque bike-trail prairie dogs.

The Always Learning List has a new page on what it's about.
http://sandradodd.com/lists/alwayslearning.html

In summer, the description of that list was changed, and that's documented here:
http://sandradodd.com/alwayslearning

Several of the John Holt pages have been dusted off and upgraded. Deb Lewis is the author of much of this, and John Holt of some of the rest:
http://sandradodd.com/holt/teachyourown

Nobody Sees Backwards
http://sandradodd.com/holt/teachyourownseeing

Right and Left
http://sandradodd.com/holt/teachyourowndirection

Stress and Perception
http://sandradodd.com/holt/teachyourownstress

A Life Worth Living
http://sandradodd.com/holt/alifeworthliving

Because my "Joyce page" was linked in this month's issue of Parental Intelligence, I checked all the links and so it has that new-car smell (figuratively speaking)
http://sandradodd.com/joycefetteroll

More images of Joyce's recent New Mexico visit

Teens, Shakespeare, "Housework"

New writing by Ann Carlson on benefits of unschooling when the teen years arrive (second bit in the main column):
http://sandradodd.com/teen/benefits.html

New bits (videos, bottom) and clean-up, Shakespeare
http://sandradodd.com/shakespeare

First item after the introduction on this page: something by Schuyler about priorities.
http://sandradodd.com/chores/intro


Thanks for reading. Please pass these links on to anyone you think could use them!

Sam Rockwell and Kevin Klein as Pyramus and Thisbe (Bill Irwin as "Wall," who is also Mr. Noodle on Sesame Street)

Good Vibrations Conference Site is open

UPDATE FROM THE FUTURE backdate!? The conference was a good one, and some of the talks are preserved. The photo link below might not work anymore, but the photo and a link to other talks from that conference is here: http://sandradodd.com/listen/connections

Holly took a photo of me especially for the Good Vibrations Unschooling Conference web site, and it's here:

http://goodvibrationsconference.com/presenters.php

It's nearly a year away, but it will be the first time I've spoken near San Diego. I've been in Long Beach and that area before, and Sacramento, and Tempe (near Phoenix)and will be again in March '09), but haven't spoken in the San Diego area. I'm looking forward to it. I hope Kirby will be with me, but it's too far away to know his scheduling requirements. If he can't go, I hope Holly can.

sweets, principles, what it is

True Tales of Kids Turning Down Sweets
http://sandradodd.com/eating/sweets.html
New story, second item, in which a three year old hands back half a honey-ball in favor of pickled garlic

New intro page on principles
http://sandradodd.com/principles/
"I was all, 'what is all this rules vs. principles stuff anyway?' Now, in my unschooling, it seems like the most important part."

These pages were spruced up a bit and I thought it might be a good time to send their links out again for anyone who didn't know about them or who had forgotten about how much can be gained by just re-centering on the basic concept:
http://sandradodd.com/unschool/definition
http://sandradodd.com/unschool/moredefinitions

Holly took this photo of me and Keith, and animated photos I took of her and her boyfriend Brett, above. more

bad words, TV, following your heart

A link added to the page on Language
http://sandradodd.com/language/
about "Bad Words"
http://sandradodd.com/language/bad

Unexpected Learning and TV has been spiffed up and a brief video of Jackie Chan talking about TV has been added
http://sandradodd.com/t/learning

"Follow your heart"?
http://sandradodd.com/joyce/followyourheart
Joyce Fetteroll does it again.

An unschooled teen's viewpoint:
http://sandradodd.com/teens/dagny
"Leap of Faith," the text of a May 2008 presentation by Dagny Kream

It's possible to subscribe directly to all these blogs now:
http://sandradodd.blogspot.com (Dodd house)
http://unschooling.blogspot.com (media announcements)
http://thinkingsticks.blogspot.com (ideas for the sake of ideas: strewing and exploring)

respect for children, change in the parents

Something new to this page (not newly written; something Ren wrote a
while back):
http://sandradodd.com/notfunny
(at the bottom)

New at the top. Important throughout.
http://sandradodd.com/change

Two new bits, upper right:
http://sandradodd.com/gettingit
(Also a new guessable address for that page. The old one, unschool/
gettingit, will redirect.)

Radio References, World, "Support"

There are comments and links, about that podcast interview I did here:
http://sandradodd.blogspot.com/2008/09/corrections-and-comments.html

I've lifted and preserved a blogpost that compared me to Dr. Laura:
http://sandradodd.com/feedback/drlauraofunschooling
(and there's a link to the original blogpost, so you should probably read it there)

There are several additions and updates to the regional group links:
http://sandradodd.com/world

For possible future use when people complain that the Always Learning list or UnschoolingDiscussion isn't "supportive," I have created a self-serve, interactive support site on which people can stay as long as they like.
http://sandradodd.com/support
Take it as seriously as you wish to. Click at your own risk.

Here's a spooky picture of Holly and me at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, at a display on the history of computers