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A new quote by Joyce on balance and what unschooling is, 2/3 of the way down on the right:
http://sandradodd.com/balance
Some kids flit from interest to interest instead of having a single obsession. More will be added to this page, but here's a start:
http://sandradodd.com/flitting
A girl was interested in fashion design and her mom told her she needed to study math from a textbook. Unfortunately, the mom told the Always Learning list. This page is also still being added to, but here are ideas for things to do for a girl interested in fashion design, and the things she could learn from that interest.
http://sandradodd.com/connections/design
Pam Sorooshian is blogging again, and I've listed her blog on my Pam page.
http://learninghappens.wordpress.com/
http://sandradodd.com/pamsorooshian
New quote from Schuyler Waynforth added to the page on negativity. How to become more positive in the moment, and then in the long term!
http://sandradodd.com/negativity
Success with Later Unschooling? A link corrected.
http://sandradodd.com/later/unschooling
(Thanks to Pamela Knapp for finding the problem AND finding the correct link for me!)
TV page, another corrected link.
http://sandradodd.com/tv
PRESCHOOL TELEVISION VIEWING AND ADOLESCENT TEST SCORES
Eva Witzel found that the PDF for "Preschool Television Viewing and Adolescent Test Scores" had been moved to a new URL, and she sent the new link to me. It's all fixed now.
Amanda Horein found many links broken at
http://sandradodd.com/world
Most of them were geocities sites, which were all taken down (after a year of warnings) last year.
While I was in there, I added The Mahogany Way, a ning for mothers of color:
http://themahoganyway.ning.com/
If you would like to share a photo of your child or your children for use in Unschooling: The Movie, please go here to read more and for an e-mail link, already filled out with permission to use the photo:
http://unschooling.info/photosneeded.html
A new page on what to consider if there is frustration in a marriage:
http://sandradodd.com/separation
It will be expanded, but the list of considerations that's already there is by Glenda Sikes.
I can tell you how this is about unschooling, but not in one or two lines. It's about the connections that both unschooling and the internet makes possible, about what kinds of people become unschoolers, and about looking back, and forward.
http://sandradodd.com/perfectvision
If anyone reading here was in Cambridge (England's Cambridge) in the 1980's or knows people who were, maybe forward that. I'd love to have more on the page. Memories. Photos, maybe. Posters.
If you're on Facebook, please check out a new group called Radical Unschooling Info, the purpose of which is to help provide good unschooling resources to anyone who comes by there. I created the page, but many others are contributing to it. Come and help us out if you want to!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=303347574750
"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." —Pam Sorooshian, June 4, 2007
New page on starting to unschool later:
http://sandradodd.com/later/unschooling
A new review of The Big Book of Unschooling, by a two-year-old (kind of) here:
http://sandradodd.com/bigbook
(not kind of a two-year-old, but kind of a review!)
The discussions on the Always Learning list have been intense of late, and the side benefit of intensity is really good responses. Schuyler's been posting, too, for those of you who missed her. If you're on and haven't been reading, maybe check out the past few topics.
https://groups.io/g/AlwaysLearning/topics
New page on the damaging myth of "sugar high":
http://sandradodd.com/eating/sugar
New search tool, which searches unschooling.com, unschooling.info, Danielle Conger's "Connections ezine," Joyfully Rejoycing and my site:
http://unschooling.blogspot.com
Later note: Abandoned again. It's okay.
The old Unschooling.info site had decayed and then found its demise, but I was given the name and the keys and it's being remodelled here:
http://unschooling.info
My original hope had been to mine the message board for the good parts, and I did get some, but folders were mysteriously disappearing though the settings said they should remain. It was dismaying. But here's an opportunity to have a general resource site for different kinds of unschooling in one place, perhaps, depending who contributes and volunteers.
Not all the pages are working yet, and I'm not in a huge hurry, but did want to keep all the thousands of links out there from hitting a dead end.
Anyone interested in helping or keeping up with the progress should subscribe to this yahoo group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unschINFO/
Another shocking but true tale of children turning down sweets:
http://sandradodd.com/eating/sweets
Nancy, righthand column.
That's one of the coolest pages on the site.
Kate O'Mara's review of my Big Book of Unschooling
http://whenkateblogs.blogspot.com/2010/01/sandra-dodds-big-book-of-unschooling.html
I've changed the index page of my site, a bit. Newer photos; more than one. Better link to the books.
http://sandradodd.com/
There's a new link on the TV page:
http://sandradodd.com/tv
(to Is "I Love Lucy" Educational? by Jan Hunt, The Natural Child Project)
The Santa Fe Unschooling Symposium was really fun, and tiring. There are photos here, and might be more eventually:
http://santafeunschoolingsymposium.blogspot.com/
Kirby took that photo of me (top right) there.
Two things not fully about unschooling, but I can justify listing them:
More on the letter David Bowie wrote me in 1967, including a bit about Holly (which she considers to be a misquote or a bad angle on what she said:
http://sandradodd.com/bowieletter
and an interesting connection (small-world shock) about my little pump organ:
http://sandradodd.com/organ
(a block of notes near the bottom)
What would you have done differently?
http://sandradodd.com/hindsight
with links to a chat transcript and some other contributions.
http://sandradodd.com/hindsight/chat
http://sandradodd.com/hindsight/outside
Pam Sorooshian's clear explanation of learning to make better choices:
http://sandradodd.com/betterchoice
Something new on World of Warcraft:
http://sandradodd.com/game/wow
New on the Monkey Platter page: Vampire monkey platter, and Robin Yaeger's beautiful vegetarian platter:
http://sandradodd.com/eating/monkeyplatter
My site is linked and I'm quoted in an article which I think is in Chinese, with the English line by line. Leo Babauta：教育需要彻底改变"
http://fanyi.edu2do.org/page/2
If someone can read that enough to leave a note below about whether the site is more about education or economics or what, and to confirm that it's Chinese and maybe let us know where it's from, that would be interesting and useful!
And so from that I found the original they were translating. It was at ZenHabits.net in August 2009: Education Needs to Be Turned on Its Head
I added a new quote to the random quotes generator:
Start with love and respect and all the good things follow—it is not magic, and it is a lot of hard work especially at the beginning. —Marina DeLuca-Howard
Quotes storage is here:
http://sandradodd.com/quotes
and the random generator is in the upper right corner here:
https://sandradodd.com/unschooling
There are many more David Bowie fans than there are unschoolers, and here's my evidence:
My site usually gets between 1000 and 2000 visits per day (SandraDodd.com in general, I mean, and most of that to the unschooling pages). One day last week I got 90,096 hits. That's because a blog called "Letters of Note" had picked up my David Bowie letter
Trusting Kids
Link added on my trust page to something Jenny Cyphers wrote:
http://sandradodd.com/trust
I'm the unschooling representative on a site called "Successful Homeschooling."
http://www.successful-homeschooling.com/unschooling.html
There's a free e-book comparing methods. It might be of use to some of you one way or another.
Another new thing on learning from TV
http://sandradodd.com/t/learning