clear to "Yes", chat, The Big Book Back Cover

Amy Kidwell let me quote her on my yes page, but there wasn't a good place for her quote where it couldn't get lost, and so this is what the Yes page looks like now:
http://sandradodd.com/yes

CHATS, and I'll list today's as a sample, but there are two a week, and could be more if there were enough interest.
The chatroom password is goodidea
and the chatroom itself is SandraDodd.com/room

MONDAY CHAT
also known as "too early Tuesday chat" in some parts of the world, and as ten-to-midnight-chat in the U.K.

Maybe this time if there aren't pressing needs, I'd like to talk about the more serious core of unschooling—how it works, and what the principles are.

Two hours, beginning:

Pacific: 2:00 pm Monday
Mountain: 3:00 pm
Central: 4:00 pm
Eastern: 5:00 pm
England: 10:00 pm Monday

Pune, India: 2:30 am Tuesday

Naranara, NSW: 7:00 am Tuesday

New Zealand: 9:00 am Tuesday

The back cover of the book is finished; Holly made it and sent it to me.
http://sandradodd.blogspot.com/2009/07/holly-sent-back-cover-for-book.html

More Random Opportunities

I've added over 20 pages to the random page generator, and then I broke it two different ways, so if you tried it and it didn't work, I think it's working again.
http://sandradodd.com/random

I'm in England staying with Schuyler Waynforth and her family. I'm collecting photographic trivia here:
http://sandradodd.blogspot.com
(If you come across this and it's not July 2009 anymore, check there in the blog archives.)

"Special programs"; Kelly L. defines unschooling; LND

Being your child's partner even in the face of special education programs
http://sandradodd.com/special/program

"What exactly is unschooling? I thought it was another name for homeschooling."
http://sandradodd.com/kellylovejoy/whatisunschooling

Learn Nothing Day has been criticized again.
http://sandradodd.com/learnnothingday/critics
I love when that happens. I didn't mean for it to be a trap for outsiders. I meant for it to be a fun trap for INsiders!

If any of you see any natural, candid criticism out there of Learn Nothing Day, please leave a link below or e-mail me. Thanks!
If you'd like to put a link to that page on your blog or site, you can lift the code with logo here:
http://sandradodd.com/learnnothingday/images

Toddlers, a good "No," Terminology

More on Piaget and what toddlers can't yet learn by Pam Sorooshian:
http://sandradodd.com/piaget
(bottom left)

Alex Polikowsky and the huge manure pit (down at the bottom)
http://sandradodd.com/no
(the bottom of the page, not of the huge manure pit—eeyew)

So I'm workin' on this book, and generally I'm summarizing or quoting from a page and then putting the page address in case the readers want to put down the book and go to the website for more information. It turns out I didn't have a page on particular unschooling terminology. There's not much of it! But whereas most of the book will be the website in book form, this page is the book in website form. (One small part of it, anyway.)
http://sandradodd.com/terminology

Piaget, School/"child-led", typical overnight

Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development
http://sandradodd.com/piaget
I made a page from an unschooling point of view; it's worth knowing but it's not worth making a religion about.

On the page about public school on your own terms, I've added a note (in a box, halfway down on the right). That article is twelve years old, in September, and I wanted to note some changes in my awareness.
http://sandradodd.com/schoolchoice

Typical day (though it was at night)
http://sandradodd.com/day/robynnight

(The photo is Kirby and Marty, in Austin, a few days ago. They are 22 and 20 years old. There's a shadow behind them that looks a little like a dirty halo.)

Being friends, eye contact, fathers' day thoughts

Keith and Holly, two days ago

Pam Sorooshian, mostly, on whether children need a parent or a friend:
http://sandradodd.com/friend

Some comments on the value and uses of making eye contact:
http://sandradodd.com/eyecontact

On Being a Father, "Father's Day maunders," link, quote and backup link added to
http://sandradodd.com/dads

Quality time, things to hear

What do we mean by "quality'? What do we mean by "time"?
http://sandradodd.com/being/with

New index page about things to listen to:
http://sandradodd.com/listen
For the "Big Book of Unschooling" I'm working on I needed a single link instead of several. I had expected the book to be created from the website; didn't know the book would be building on the website, but that's fine.

Help needed with a project

Lee Stranahan who, with his wife Lauren, performed the technical wizardry that made Peaceful Parenting and some of my other talks available to hear free, has been interviewing me quite a bit, and Holly some, and plans to interview Broc and Brenna (maybe Gail and Logan) later this month, and who has personal family experience to share, is creating a DVD about unschooling but needs starter funding. Click that box for more details.

That's their daughter, Olivia, in the photo.

Some of the things the Stranahans have already made available to unschoolers on my site:

http://sandradodd.com/introduction

http://www.sandradodd.com/parentingpeacefully

http://sandradodd.com/video/

Here's more by and about Lee Stranahan:http://leestranahan.com/

Thanks for considering this!

To read and to hear and attend

Holly and Ben in Silver City this week.

Two new transcripts for videos,
http://sandradodd.com/video/sandra2
http://sandradodd.com/video/sandra3

One new-improved (I found the handout) audio file from when my kids were 9, 7 and 4 years old:
http://sandradodd.com/introduction

Monkey Platter Festival Confirmed for November 10-12, 2008, Albuquerque
http://sandradodd.com/festival09

Details, intelligences, another transcript

Some details of unschooling in Ronnie Maier's life and words, and links to others':
http://sandradodd.com/day/meme

New info, also by Ronnie, at the bottom of this page:
http://sandradodd.com/intelligences
(Not new by Ronnie, but new on my site and by Ronnie.)

"How Do they Learn?"
http://sandradodd.com/day/meme/caren

The first of the YouTube videos Lee Stranahan made of me has a transcript now:
http://sandradodd.com/video/sandra1

relatives, the problem with "support," phrases to avoid

Transcript of a chat from June 1, 2009:
http://sandradodd.com/chats/relatives


The problem with "support"...
http://sandradodd.com/support/problem
(mostly Joyce's writing)


Two new links on the "Phrases to Avoid" page;
http://sandradodd.com/phrases

Clarity, a day in NYC, Detox

What makes thoughts and and words "clear"? How might "a clear singing voice" be described to someone who is deaf?
http://sandradodd.com/clarity

Out and about in New York City: a recent day reported
http://sandradodd.com/day/meryl

Fourteen years ago there was a chat. The transcript was available for a few years after and then time passed. Today it's available here:
http://sandradodd.com/detox