WoW, School, Family

gratuitous photo of Pam Sorooshian and Sandra Dodd at the display on personal computers at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science

A new unschooler presents the joys she found playing World of Warcraft with her son, and what he's been doing lately when he's not playing.
http://sandradodd.com/game/wow
This new page is linked from "Tales of Happy Video Gamers":
http://sandradodd.com/game/tales

New from Joyce on textbooks:
http://sandradodd.com/school/textbooks
and an index page (very brief) on school-related topics
http://sandradodd.com/school

Public School on your Own Terms, revamped and comments added
http://sandradodd.com/schoolchoice

School can break family bonds
http://sandradodd.com/school/family

Peace, Learning Nothing, Obsessions

Some clean-up and rearrangement:
http://sandradodd.com/peace
http://sandradodd.com/mindfulness

A new photo collage:
http://sandradodd.com/learnnothingday/2008

A new entry into the Focus, Hobbies, Obsessions area
http://sandradodd.com/obsessions
and new writing about feeding obsessions
http://sandradodd.com/obsessions/feedpassions

sleep, principles, words, babies

A post on the images of babies in the winter (Jesus, New Year's day as an infant), with a link to the new doll Holly got for Christmas, and its journey to her, involving youtube and Ireland and...

Will kids sleep without a bedtime? Very peacefully, it seems.
http://sandradodd.com/sleep/
(two new photos of beautiful babies)

Understanding the Value of Principles
http://sandradodd.com/rulebound
Not new. Rediscovered. Touched up. Typo fixed. Links fluffed. Good stuff.

Word Histories
http://sandradodd.com/etymology
This page has been announced four times. It was new in January 2004. I tweaked and added a few times. There's something new at the bottom—a new chart of Indo-European languages. I like charts. And one of the links leads to something Joyce wrote, and of that long interesting article on the names of months, I've brought you this:

Here’s a translation of the month names from Charlemagne’s time:
Winter
Spring
Lent
Easter
Grazing
Plowing
Hay
Harvest
Wood
Vintage
Autumn/Harvest
Holy

TV, relationships, enthusiasm

Sometimes when I'm dusting a page off, repairing links, putting in the trees art to link to my main page instead of the gate that opens and closes, I notice that a page is exceptional and has probably been forgotten. Here's one. It's so old that it was put up when there were limits to the length of a page, and I had it split into two. It's restored as one, has new margins, links aren't underlined, and even if you've read it before you might want to read it again.

It was a discussion at unschooling.com, on TV, in 2001.
http://sandradodd.com/t/debate

"Yes! It is absolutely about putting the relationship first."
http://sandradodd.com/spouses
(first item, left column, Beth Fuller)

Roya Sorooshian, on her summer internship in Alaska and her job with Project Independence
http://sandradodd.com/youngadults/roya2008
Roya recently finished a degree in Recreation and Leisure Studies

being online, parenting mindfully, myths

Justifications for Being Online to learn about Unschooling
http://sandradodd.com/lists/justification
(not new, just obscure)

NEW and exciting:
Ren Allen and I gave a talk in October 2005 and you can listen to it here:
http://sandradodd.com/rentalk
The text will give you some context, or you can just scroll down and play the talk.

TV, sleeping and religion

What a two-year-old wants to photograph

"Now I see the flowers and my DD2's joy."
http://sandradodd.com/t/peace
(second item)

More added to the section on sleeping—a directory page and information on co-sleeping.
http://sandradodd.com/sleep
http://sandradodd.com/sleep/cosleeping

Just the beginnings of a page about religion.
http://sandradodd.com/religion

Lists of good ideas

The ABCs of Unschooling, by Mary Gold
It's not new, but it's refurbished, and might be new to you!
http://sandradodd.com/gold/abc

Principles of Unschooling, by Pam Sorooshian
It's not new, but it's new on my site.
http://sandradodd.com/pam/principles

Deb Lewis's list of Things to Do in the Winter
It's not new at all, but it's nearly winter and there are lots of people who haven't seen it.
http://sandradodd.com/strew/deblist

"MOVIES AS A PLAYGROUND, as tools, as portals
...sharing movies with our kids"
Not brand new, lately updated, and has lists galore!
http://sandradodd.com/movies
(That Heath Ledger example was given a couple of years ago. I was thinking of the connection between "10 Things I Hate About You" and "The Patriot," which isn't the Civil War at all, but there are way more movies about the U.S. Civil War than about the American Revolution, though the recent mini-series on John Adams parallels it without many battle scenes.)

Wishlists for Unschoolers
http://sandradodd.com/wishlist
Maybe you have the need to give a gift to an unschooling family, and that has ideas!

Gifts for Guys to Buy
"Some people are just not cut out to cruise the Barbie aisles. Luckily there are alternatives and you were probably going there anyway...." Not a new article, one of my oldest, pre-webpages, so it's here for being obscure and not often dusted off and brought to light.
http://sandradodd.com/gifts

[Gratuitous snow photos from some other year]

Pam Sorooshian, magic and learning

Pam Sorooshian has written something wonderful which I've called "How to Be a Good Unschooler" (and she didn't mind)
http://sandradodd.com/pam/howto

Magic on TV, and TV on the internet, and magic in other guises
http://sandradodd.com/magic

and it's linked from the TV page too
http://sandradodd.com/tv

and from juggling
http://sandradodd.com/juggling

To the right are some images from July's Learn Nothing Day. Because I got some new photos today, I gathered up what I could find and built a show. I also moved the notes and comments from last summer onto their own page:
http://sandradodd.com/learnnothingday/2008

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.