Pets, One thing leads to another, Sugar

The "pets" page from the Big Book, and something Pam Sorooshian just wrote:
http://sandradodd.com/pets

Julie Sweeney, up top of the page on young adults
http://sandradodd.com/youngadults/

Sugar and young children, something new up top by Deb Lewis:
http://sandradodd.com/eating/sugar

ALL in May (symposium in Massachusetts)

If you're in that area, please pass the link on to other locals who are already familiar with my site, Joyce's or the Always Learning list.

May 18-20, 2012
Always Learning Live Unschooling Symposium,
a short session in Massachusetts!
YMCA Harrington Outdoor Center (near Worcester — map)

Although it's too soon to make a paid reservation, I expect it will be about $100 per family, or not much more. Maybe less. We need to know more about expenses and the expected turnout, SO... if you know you might be interested in attending, please e-mail me: Sandra@SandraDodd.com

MORE DETAILS:http://speakingsandradodd.blogspot.com/p/spring-in-new-england.html

Growth, marriages, babies

New page: Growth
http://sandradodd.com/growth

New quote and link on "Divorce (Prevention of, for Unschoolers)"
http://sandradodd.com/divorce
It's near the bottom, and begins "Couples whose marriages are sick are often skittish about seeking help."

Middle item on babies learning
http://sandradodd.com/babies/

Little Gems, Reality, Texas, Joyce in German

Tiny bits of great writing
http://sandradodd.com/language/shortbursts.html

Would you rather live in the stone age, or live now?
http://sandradodd.com/reality/
(Hint: You don't actually have a choice.)

I've added a new Texas statewide unschooling group to my world links pages.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Texasunschoolers/
has been added to http://sandradodd.com/world

One addition to the recent collection of German translations. The first one, under Joyce Fetteroll:
http://sandradodd.com/german/

I lifted the image from the Texas Unschoolers page!

Dads, Eating, Phrases, Sleeping

Dads, unschooling, issues
http://sandradodd.com/issues/dads

A new article (2008) linked at
http://sandradodd.com/eating/research
An Italian study reported in the British Journal of Nutrition, "Influence of parental attitudes in the development of children eating behaviour"

A new example added to "Phrases to hear and avoid" (up top)
http://sandradodd.com/phrases

Three new photos of sleeping children added to the "slideshow" at
http://sandradodd.com/sleeping

College, active play, priorities

Second on the left, April Morris on unschooled teens going to college.
http://sandradodd.com/teen/college.html

Physical play (new page), a few small things by various people:
http://sandradodd.com/activeplay

Two new things to the left of the first box, and three things inside that box:
http://sandradodd.com/priorities

Rearrangement

For the first time in a long time, I rearranged my index page:
http://SandraDodd.com
I moved the SCA stuff elsewhere (link at the bottom of the middle section) and put a remote feed to Just Add Light and Stir, which will update itself every day. Otherwise, it's about the same.

I've moved notifications of speaking to its own blog. Some of the links are to other blogs, but that's because some events are run by others, in other languages, and because I'm really enjoying having a blog particular to international trips, so I can keep my photos and exciting news there.
http://speakingsandradodd.blogspot.com/
Planned talks in the next two years (some more solid than others): MA, NJ-maybe, OR, France, Scotland, The Netherlands, England, CA, FL, NM, Portugal, Spain, CA-maybe, Australia, India.

Because other people's webpages disappear, I'm starting to try to save any translation of my writings (or Joyce's, or Pam's, or others of that ilk) that I come across. I have collections in six languages, with hints or promises of a few more. French, particularly, is really ratcheting up. There will be some Portuguese translations created in preparation for June 2013 (Joyce is going there with me).

The page for that is called "translation":
http://sandradodd.com/translation/

Labels, Languages, ALL Unschooling 2012

Something new by Jenny Cyphers at "Problems with labelling children"
http://sandradodd.com/labels

An attempt to gather and preserve translations of unschooling writings:
http://sandradodd.com/translation
(Yet another site has disappeared, and though I retrieved some with the Way Back Machine, some will likely be gone forever.)

There will be another ALL Unschooling Symposium in Albuquerque this December, and you can subscribe there to receive updates on that. The schedule has been published, and I'll start taking applications in a few weeks. Attendees will be expected to be members of the Always Learning discussion list (at least one of the parents), and to be familiar with Joyce Fetteroll's unschooling site and mine. It's not a gathering for beginning beginners.
http://allunschooling2012.blogspot.com/p/schedule.html

Adam Daniel, Limits, Netherlands & France

Some of Adam Daniel's presentation in Albuquerque from December 31, 2011:
http://sandradodd.com/adamlearns
(Adam is six years old and was one of the speakers
at the ALL Unschooling Symposium.)
the photo is by Tim Mensch.

French translation
http://www.journaljose.blogspot.com/2012/01/les-limites_17.html
of "Limits"
http://justaddlightandstir.blogspot.com/2012/01/limits.html

Plans for speaking in the Netherlands and in France:
http://sandraeurope2012.blogspot.com/p/netherlands.html
http://sandraeurope2012.blogspot.com/p/france.html

Sugar, expansion, courage

Photo of Deb Lewis by Tim Mensch, Albuquerque, December 30, 2011

Addition of a story about how many sugar cubes one child will eat, given a full box:
http://sandradodd.com/eating/sugar
(third bit down the page)

Twinkies and blueberries, second small bit at the top:
http://sandradodd.com/eating/sweets

The principles that make unschooling work can expand into all of one's life. Sylvia Woodman gave me permission to share something she wrote about her feelings as her mother was in intensive care. I will link a small bit from which you can choose to see more or not.
http://justaddlightandstir.blogspot.com/2012/01/do-what-it-takes.html

Deb Lewis, on Becoming Courageous
http://sandradodd.com/deblewis/courage

Issues, speaking

Expansion of "When Parents Have Issues"
http://sandradodd.com/issues/

Summer plans (speaking in Scotland, England, the Netherlands and France in 2012)
http://sandraeurope2012.blogspot.com/
If you're interested in that one, please subscribe there, upper right of that page.

I'm speaking in Vancouver, Washington in May; in Sacramento, California in August; somewhere in the NE U.S. sometime in the fall. Information on the first two:
http://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com/2011/10/my-speaking-plans-for-next-nearly-year.html

There will be another ALL Unschooling Symposium in Albuquerque this December, though registration isn't yet open.
http://allunschooling2012.blogspot.com/

"Choix," food in quantity, dads

La Valeur des Choix
Catherine Goudouchaouri's translation of "The Value of Choices" (a page with various authors)
http://sandradodd.com/french/choix (new)

Several translations of Just Add Light and Stir posts have been made, and are linked here:
http://sandradodd.com/french (additions)

Bingeing and hoarding (lesser variations of those, and food, and unschooling)
http://sandradodd.com/eating/quantities (new)

Dads (a paper-folding story of now-grown unschooled man)
http://sandradodd.com/dads (addition)