New images (slide show, lower right) on Peaceful Kids with Toy Guns
http://sandradodd.com/peace/guns
Scientific playing of video games (new link, top:)
http://sandradodd.com/videogames/
New link on TV page, to "Revolution in a Box," first link, bottom right, on outside links:
http://sandradodd.com/tv
(Thanks for that link to Colleen Paeff, and for the other news and photos to Crystal Miller.)
With the permission of Flo Gascon, organizer of the Good Vibrations Unschooling Conference, the following 2009 recordings are made available to hear on my site. Each has the description of the talk from the conference site, and the biography of the speaker at that time. I'm really glad these details and images won't be lost when that site is gone!
Unschooling and Math, Pam Sorooshian
Roya Repeating Herself, Roya Sorooshian
Connections, Sandra Dodd
Transformations, Sandra Dodd
In Pursuit of a Passionate Life, Jeff Sabo
Teen and Young Adult Panel, Ronnie Maier, Moderator
Radical Thoughts for Radical Unschoolers, Miranda Demarest
As a footnote to a facebook post where Kelly Lovejoy asked Holly Dodd about a game Holly mentioned, ended up making a page of instructions and samples of a pencil and paper game, writey-drawey:
http://sandradodd.com/writey
A quote with a link to a longer piece of writing, on the page about regret for not unschooling sooner:
http://sandradodd.com/ifonly
Added a note and link about the harm of spanking or punishment, from Lori, on the Always Learning list:
http://sandradodd.com/s/stopAlso added to that page: a link to the No More Spanking discussion list, run by an unschooler: yes... but removed it when yahoogroups dropped their archives
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NoMoreSpanking/
Tentative but likely:
June 4, afternoon or evening, Montreal
http://www.montrealhomelearners.ca/
For sure!
June 7-10, Great Big Happy Life Unschoolers' Conference Retreat
Camp Vacamas - West Milford, New Jersey
http://www.greatbighappylife.com/
I was looking for a place to save a quote from Jill (from the chat), and some discussion about children hitting and throwing things. I searched for "hit" in the place where posts can be edited, and only found these:
Biscochitos, and Hitler
http://sandradodd.com/bizcochitos
http://sandradodd.com/hitler.html
I should add photos to the bizcochitos.
But here's where the other things went:
http://sandradodd.com/destructive
and
http://sandradodd.com/attitude, which has enough links to keep anyone busy for an hour or three, so don't forget your kids.
Something new by Joyce Fetteroll, at the bottom of a page you might not have seen at all (or lately):
http://sandradodd.com/priorities
Principles (It's not just another word for "rules"!)
http://sandradodd.com/chats/rules
Direct effects of watching television (new writing by Deb Lewis, at the bottom):
http://sandradodd.com/t/whatif.html
and that reminds me of Jacki's daughter Hannah's experience, in the box at right on this page:
TV, Learning, Choices and FOOD—How Unschoolers Watch TV
http://sandradodd.com/t/holly
If the photo has been used before, it deserves to be seen again!
Two things on breathing:
Schuyler Waynforth's account of learning, in Japan when her children were very young, the value of learning to calm herself:
http://sandradodd.com/breathing (bottom of the page)
and the transcript of a chat on breathing
http://sandradodd.com/chats/breathing
There's a peaceful, warm new image on the sleep directory page, lower right, with a link to its home:
http://sandradodd.com/sleep
Following a question concerning people taking teens out of high school to unschool there right near the end, other ideas and links were added here:
http://sandradodd.com/teen/latertounschooling
How playing with My Little Pony inspired a career in science:
http://sandradodd.com/mylittlepony
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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