Decisions, Reed Organ, Juggling

http://sandradodd.com/decisions
How often do you make decisions?
(I guess this is the shortest thing I’ve ever written.)

http://sandradodd.com/organ
In the area of collecting, strewing and making connections, here’s
information about a small reed organ.

http://sandradodd.com/juggling
Juggling, but art, and music, and ideas about more and better.

http://sandradodd.blogspot.com/2006/07/three-teens-i-have-three-teens.html
This is not exactly on the site, but is exactly on the topics of unschooling and parenting. It’s a commemoration of the last day we had three teenagers, which was Friday July 28, the day before Kirby’s 20th birthday.

toddlers, deschooling, monsters and cake

This installment is mostly about new art, but you might find articles you had missed or forgotten while you're looking.

new photo (new to the site) of my kids at
http://sandradodd.com/toddlers

"Look for the delight in life and it will infect your kids :-)"
New deschooling description by Joyce
http://sandradodd.com/joyce/deschooling
Two nice photos of Joyce, taken by her daughter Kat, added here:
http://sandradodd.com/joycefetteroll

Monster art now with the article for Monster Mania article for which it was intended
http://sandradodd.com/t/monstermania

Two new cake photos (Ren's Jalen and his Squarebob Spongepants cake) and something Ren wrote about that
http://sandradodd.com/cake

food, teens, mystery art, imagination and names

New parts on the following pages:

http://sandradodd.com/eating/sweets
Another seven-year-old turns down dessert.

http://sandradodd.com/teen/people
Review of teen behavior at conference

http://sandradodd.com/english

http://sandradodd.com/lists/help
How the discussions help people

New pages:

http://sandradodd.com/imagination
So far, Deb Lewis!

http://sandradodd.com/learning
Seems odd this site would need a page called "learning," but things came along that didn't fit elsewhere.
I'm still dinking around with the links to get the art to work on different browsers.

http://sandradodd.com/names
People's names, and place names

http://sandradodd.com/mysteryart
A pretty discovery, and a mystery for you.

Mystery Art

http://sandradodd.com/mysteryart

How are they as teens?

I've worked on several pages lately and the commonality seems to be that they're about older unschoolers.
There are additions or newness in the following links:

http://sandradodd.com/teen/jobs
"Will they get jobs?"


http://sandradodd.com/teen/people
Unschooled Teens: How are they as People?
(addition of a few things, notably the tale of Marty's graduation from the Junior Police Academy, a combination bootcamp and daycamp he attended when he was fourteen) and that had reference to a certain rant which is also posted and linked from there

http://sandradodd.com/lazyhedonists
I have named it "Lazy Hedonists" (choosing words from the rant itself)

http://sandradodd.com/kirby
Some new things, more access

http://sandradodd.com/life
Two new links at the bottom of the box and general page cleanup

typical day, female-lead, peace and books

http://sandradodd.com/typical
There's a new story on typical days (upper right) involving glowsticks in the hot tub. It's nice.

http://sandradodd.com/game/female
New female videogame lead sent by someone who happened by.

New on http://sandradodd.com/peacefulparenting

From the UnschoolingDiscussion list

Sandra Dodd: Some mom reading here might look up and smile at her child, or touch his head softly, or turn off the computer and go watch him build with Lego, or go with him to the park to throw a frisbee for the dog. Maybe without this list she would've told him to just go do something else because she had to fix dinner.

AmyLS: I'd just like to say that the cumulative effect of reading this message board has been much like Sandra said. Saying 'sure!' when my youngest one asked if we could get the Chocolate Lucky Charms, getting up when my kids say 'Hey Mum, look at this...' (instead of...'hold on, I'm doing something'). The insights and vignettes on this board have been very valuable to my family... good writing!


Not central to unschooling, but as sub-info for the Books page
http://sandradodd.com/books

Medieval books and online books
http://sandradodd.com/medievalbooks
http://sandradodd.com/onlinebooks
(Those I'll just add to as I come across good things, and if any of you have favorites, please write!)

Wonder

Wonder
sandradodd.com/wonder

You can wonder what's in the fridge, or you can see the world with new eyes. The ability to do the latter is crucial to unschooling.

I'm grateful to Pam Sorooshian, Joyce Fetteroll and to many others who have written things to help inspire wonder.

music, rules, cards, history and time

http://sandradodd.com/rules
Addition of the take of a ten year old named Ben

http://sandradodd.com/control
Expansion of the page

http://sandradodd.com/music
Holly found another online music toy

http://sandradodd.com/strew/how
More specifics on strewing, with stories, by me and Deb Lewis (at the
bottom of that page—worth the visit)

http://sandradodd.com/lazy
Joyce responded to something from someone who had said her son was
lazy, and the response needed its own page.

http://sandradodd.com/game/cards
links added to the cards page of the games section

The subjects section hasn't had a history page. Now it has the start
of one. Any good ideas?
http://sandradodd.com/history

and that came from some online discussions about time
http://sandradodd.com/time

Happy June!
Sandra

teen photos, choices, leaning on a truck

I've added photo links here:

http://sandradodd.com/teen/kirby
http://sandradodd.com/teen/people
http://sandradodd.com/teen/brenna
http://sandradodd.com/teens

There's an addition to
http://sandradodd.com/choice

Addition and page improvements:
http://sandradodd.com/truckcomments

New page, older writing—Joyce on choices and TV
http://sandradodd.com/tvchoice

Logic, presence and deschooling

http://sandradodd.com/joyce/logic
TV discussion added to one of the Joyce Fetteroll pages. She's so clear.

http://sandradodd.com/logic
Link to the above, and something by Pam, and a cartoon that was on the wall in our bathroom for a long time. I don't have the original date, but it's been several years.



http://sandradodd.com/peacefulparenting
"There is no substitute for being authentically "there" for them..."
Something new by Pam Sorooshian (new to me; maybe new to some of your), at the bottom of that page.

http://sandradodd.com/sandylubert
Sandy Lubert on Unschooling and deschooling, and changes...
(Notes for her presentation at the recent unschooling conference in Toronto, and photos she let me use.)

TV, tone of voice, UD, writing, podcast link

Learning from TV has been expanded.
http://sandradodd.com/t/learning

Tone of voice (the mom's):
http://sandradodd.com/tone

Reorganized the information relating to the UnschoolingDiscussion list, which was moved last month from yahoogroups to google groups.
http://sandradodd.com/unschoolingdiscussion

Writing:
http://sandradodd.com/writing

A link has been added at
http://sandradodd.com/help
to someone's new podcast collection that's here:
http://unbridledlearning.podomatic.com/

I was quoted in the first one. There are two now, and more intended. If unbridled learning is hard to remember, sandradodd.com/help might not be.

New and Better site search tools

The simple, free search function I was using became increasingly unreliable and then quit working altogether.

http://sandradodd.com/search
I used Google's free search, and have it in a few places there now. If you come across any of the old plain non-functioning search boxes, please let me know. Google doesn't search within code, so I can't find them that way.

The 404/bad link page has been spiffed up to match that too, so try a bad link of your own device, or this one:

http://sandradodd.com/sufferingsuccotash
Holly helped me with a photoshop trick I didn't know, and Joyce Fetteroll's advice that making an image file the size you want it to finally be made the whole thing work better, so I'm grateful to Holly, Joyce and Google, and to Danielle Conger for reminding me Google had free web-search links.

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