Chat transcripts, More Random Excitement

Directory of chat transcripts, each on one section of The Big Book of Unschooling
http://sandradodd.com/chats/bigbook/directory
To subscribe to chat announcements, join this list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChatNote/
Chats are gone; yahoogroups is gone.

I've added 88 pages to the random page generator:
https://sandradodd.com/random
They're all new in the past year and some, but many are from this month. Now the random generator has 734 links. Have fun!

Clarity, Skepticism, "Nook" books

New on clarity of thought and expression, lower left:
http://sandradodd.com/clarity

Skepticism and the nature of unschooling
(skip this if you're in a light and fluffy mood)
I've added to the top of the page, and to the bottom.
The middle part was announced here in August, 2006.
http://sandradodd.com/skepticism

Barnes & Noble has electronic versions of my books on their site now.

Nook Book Version of The Big Book of Unschooling
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/big-book-of-unschooling-sandra-dodd/1105701706?ean=9781257152254&itm=1&usri=9781257152254
Nook Book Version of Moving a Puddle
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/moving-a-puddle-sandra-dodd/1105698350?ean=9781257174911&itm=1&usri=9781257174911

When I first submitted these books to Lulu.com, Moving a Puddle had color pictures, but they advised after that to put photos in black and white. So The Big Book has b&w photos. Bummer in retrospect. At least in the iBook versions, anyway, Moving a Puddle has color images! :-)

iTunes:
Moving a Puddle
http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/moving-a-puddle/id441773032?mt=11

The Big Book of Unschooling
http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/big-book-of-unschooling/id441277658?mt=11

Spouses, Families, Movies, Stories

Schuyler Waynforth, about a forgotten anniversary, and contentment:
http://sandradodd.com/spouses
(upper left)

Ben Lovejoy, four new pages to add to the one article I had. Three came from "Connections," and one Ben sent me in May, when I was in England, and it was lost in the shuffle until now!
http://sandradodd.com/benlovejoy
is the directory page, and the newly-presented information is here:

"No Rules-Sir ,Yes Sir" (Ben's life, the military, being an unschooling dad)
http://sandradodd.com/lovejoy/norules.html

A Look Back (movies, families)
http://sandradodd.com/lovejoy/alookback.html

Following our Passions to Bonnaroo (music, road trips, relationships)
http://sandradodd.com/lovejoy/bonnaroo.html

The Stories of Our Families (the value of storytelling)
http://sandradodd.com/lovejoy/stories.html

Natural Math, Needs, Science

Lyla's story of her son stumping a teacher (unknowingly):
http://sandradodd.com/math/natural

New writing by Joyce on meeting a child's needs (or on the futility of resisting meeting a child's needs):
http://sandradodd.com/needs

Schuyler Waynforth, in an article from 2007, rescued just this week from a sinking website, with nice big photos sent directly from Schuyler yesterday!
http://sandradodd.com/schuyler/science.html

Moving a Puddle reviews; how to strew; cosleeping

The Connections ezine site will not be maintained by its owner, and I was told to grab what I wanted before it was gone. One month, my first book was featured as a resource, and I've saved that page, with its reviews, here:
http://sandradodd.com/feedback/puddlebookreviews

A new part, second in, here, on how to strew:
http://sandradodd.com/strew/how

Two new bits up top on the co-sleeping page:
http://sandradodd.com/sleep/cosleeping

If someone has a good co-sleeping photo I can use there, I'd appreciate it. (I can use more than one.)

More by Deb Lewis

All new pages, all Deb Lewis!

And if you like these ideas, please consider coming to the ALL Unschooling Symposium December 29-31, where Deb will speak about unschooling for the first time.

Sympathetic, Empathetic, or Simply Pathetic?
http://sandradodd.com/deblewis/sympathetic

Cultural Ideas and Change
http://sandradodd.com/deblewis/culturalideas
How accepted truths (memes) make unschooling difficult to see and believe.

The Evidence of Years: hindsight, milestones, and big differences
http://sandradodd.com/deblewis/years

Unschooler's Pipe Wrench
http://sandradodd.com/deblewis/humor
"We understand we don't always have a choice about what life brings us, but we always have a choice about how we face it. And we face it wearing big red clown noses."

Not Even Close to All For McNaught
http://sandradodd.com/deblewis/notevenclose

Confessions of a Lawbreaker: "My son Dylan has been voting for years. According to the Twenty sixth Amendment he doesn't have the right to vote until he's eighteen years old, but we amended that amendment, at least in our own minds...."
http://sandradodd.com/deblewis/confessions

Deb Lewis on Monsters; Ren Allen on Snowflakes

These articles are both five years old, but have lived on a site that will be dissolving soon, so I've brought them and their photos and will be bringing some other articles by authors I've been collecting. Sometimes my pack-rat "collect the whole set" nature can benefit others.

How a Monster and a Dead Guy Named Howard Led a Boy to a World of Connections, by Deb Lewis
http://sandradodd.com/deblewis/monster

Crystallized Learning, by Ren Allen
http://sandradodd.com/ren/crystallized

Praise of Joyce, Art, Science

Praise of Joyce Fetteroll (from India this time):
http://sandradodd.com/joycefetteroll
(Click the image at right for another Joyce quote.)

Something fishy on the art page:
http://www.sandradodd.com/art/

The science page has balls (unless you're on an iPad):
http://sandradodd.com/science/

Abundance and Curiosity

Something new by Jenny Cyphers, at the bottom of "Abundance"
http://sandradodd.com/abundance

New page on the value of curiosity in unschooling parents:
http://sandradodd.com/curiosity

Magnets for sale

Holly and I made a set of five magnets with photos from Just Add Light and Stir, and quotes—not the same quotes they first appeared with, but some chosen to go with the photos. Quotes and photos maybe be seen in detail at http://SandraDodd.com/magnets .

We sold all the sets we had at The Good Vibrations Conference, but received a new shipment today. The proceeds will go toward rental of meeting rooms for the ALL Unschooling Symposium in Albuquerque in December. The result of having the magnets on your fridge or filing cabinet might be that might be inspired or reminded to be patient and present. They might also make great gifts!!

A full set of five is $10 (including shipping); individual magazines, with shipping, are $3.

Confidence, Principles, Unschooling without Labels

Addition to the "Confidence" page, something Meredith Novak wrote on Facebook.
(top of the page:)
http://sandradodd.com/confidence

Principles, something new by Joyce up top, and links added at the bottom.
http://sandradodd.com/principles
This page could be a new starting place for the site, with a week's worth of reading.
Perhaps too intense for beginners.
Definitely a time for "Read a little, try a little, wait a while, watch."

In light of another spate of arguments for diagnosing and labelling children's "shiny differences," Chris Sanders wrote about traits her daughter had that needed time, attention, and unschooling, rather than professional "help."
http://sandradodd.com/words/without

Magnets for sale

Magnets for sale now! http://sandradodd.com/magnets

Photos by Sandra or Holly, quotes by Sandra, photoshop artistry by Holly, webpage by Sandra...

Magnets by Sandra and Holly Dodd