2010 video interview of Kirby and Sandra Dodd
Newly on YouTube, something from 2010.
The interview was to gather material for a documentary, linked if you click through to YouTube.
"Read a little, try a little, wait a while, watch."
Newly on YouTube, something from 2010.
The interview was to gather material for a documentary, linked if you click through to YouTube.
Two more sound files new to the site:
Happiness Inside and Out (from 2012)
http://sandradodd.com/hsc/happiness
And a new page on happiness, easier to find by memory (if you can remember this much happiness):
http://sandradodd.com/happiness
Why "Radical" Unschooling?—sound file and many notes
http://sandradodd.com/hsc/radical
Two new sound files (and links for free downloads):
Partnerships and Teams in the Family
With notes and a playable sound link:
http://sandradodd.com/hsc2010.html
At the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/F4SandraDoddPartnershipsTeamsInTheFamilyDSEE9E1
Unschooling: How to Screw it Up
With notes and a playable sound link:
http://sandradodd.com/hsc2010.html
At the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/SandraDoddUnschoolingHowToScrewItUp
And some notes about those and other fun things:
http://sandradodd.com/hsc2010.html
New (newly finished enough to announce) page on the claim or fear that things are "poison," and Joyce's logical responses:
http://sandradodd.com/poison
There is another page at eating/poison that was announced in 2015, but the two can't be combined. The older page is called "Let them eat candy," and addresses the problem of a candy-deprived child being more likely to eat grandma's pills, or soap pods.
http://sandradodd.com/eating/poison
Two different topics, but both in support of parents giving children opportunities to make their own choices, and both warning against the dangers of parental fear and over-control.
New, on meditation (this will surely receive additions)
http://sandradodd.com/meditation
"Screentime" is not what adults call using their computers or phones. What all is IN there? (new page)
http://sandradodd.com/screentime/not
Video added about ways to treat autistic kids (sounds just like unschooling).
http://sandradodd.com/labels
A link-rich page about the idea of knowing what direction you intend to go, so that choices can be made happily and sensibly:
http://sandradodd.com/direction
Somehow that page, created in late 2014, was never announced.
It's a good one!
Some Thoughts on Later Reading
http://sandradodd.com/hsc/readinglater.html
Some similarities between recovery programs and unschooling discussions
http://sandradodd.com/recovery
New quote and image added to the page on perspective. Looks like a fish in a hamster cage. Isn't.
http://sandradodd.com/perspective
Thoughts about doing better, including knowing what is NOT better. Links to several better-things.
http://sandradodd.com/better
Additions and new title: School math in history, and school math after unschooling
http://sandradodd.com/math/schoolmath
"Reading age in unschooled kids": Jo Isaac's 2016 survey with graphs of ages at which unschoolers learned to read
http://sandradodd.com/readingage.html
Collection of writings by Jo Isaac, and links to recorded interview and transcript "Redefining Success"
http://sandradodd.com/joisaac/
Light and Lightness, with inspiration, photos, and pretty shadows
http://sandradodd.com/light
When we answer the wrong question:
http://sandradodd.com/wrongquestion
Something new by a mom named Tracey, on the page on spirituality.
http://sandradodd.com/spirituality.html
How DO people acquire respect or social credits?
http://sandradodd.com/points
New page, because it comes up two or three times a year, about kids' teeth and options and compassion and such
http://sandradodd.com/dentist
New page, Karen James on trust (and I added some of her photos with links to other writings)
http://sandradodd.com/karenjames/trust
Some parents say "oooh, Waldorf," with dreamy eyes. Unschooling is way better.
http://sandradodd.com/waldorf
There is something new, about a 19-year-old essay, "Knowing Everything."
If you haven't read it, you should (and the commentary).
If you have read it, read it again (which is what the commentary is about).
http://sandradodd.com/zeneverything
A text-chat-style interview was published in July that had been mostly unavailable for ten years. I've added it at
http://sandradodd.com/interviews
but its home is http://homeschoolrealm.com/sandra-dodd/
I was interviewed in June 2017 by Rebecca Bohman at The Luminous Mind. That podcast is available to hear here on YouTube:
Episode 197 - Sandra Dodd, “Everything Counts”
Jessica Hughes has a series I like called "An Unschooling Journey," on a new site called Steemit, about unschooling.
http://sandradodd.blogspot.com/2017/07/an-unschooling-journey.html
These three links were brought here four years ago, but one has additions, and they're a good set.
New link added to page on reality (and note there that I created reality!)
Would you rather live in a stone-age village? Early 19th century sod house?
http://sandradodd.com/reality/
Unschool World, another sort of alternate reality
http://sandradodd.com/unschoolworld
Potential problems with Reality TV and unschoolers
http://sandradodd.com/problems/realityshows