Mary's diaper bag
sandradodd.com/art/basket
a miraculous pog (okay, maybe "remarkable" pog)
sandradodd.blogspot.com/2007/12/nativity-pog.html
and more grapes
sandradodd.com/eating/grapes
It's not about unschooling, except for being about art, history, religion, fruit, the wonders of the internet and parenting. Pretty close.
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The grapes background is restored to the food section!
http://sandradodd.com/food
I found another Renaissance portrait of Mary and Jesus with a bunch of grapes. This time they're green.
http://sandradodd.com/eating/grapes
Intro and link to an article by an anthropologist on "Adaptiveness of food learning and food aversions in children"
http://sandradodd.com/eating/research
Holidays and relatives can induce stress in moms, concerning children and cookies and candy. You might find something in these to help you create a more peaceful holiday for your children.
Holly made a title and background for
http://sandradodd.com/writing
(one and the same art, but she resized it for me)
and I've added her current MySpace "About Me" with her permission.
Kelly Lovejoy has let me provide her "Wet Paint!" article which appeared in the last issue of Connections (now that the new issue is out).
http://sandradodd.com/kellylovejoy/wetpaint
This page is updated too:
http://sandradodd.com/kellylovejoy
There's something new on my blog, concerning Kirby and some anxiety of mine.
http://sandradodd.blogspot.com/2007/12/stress-i-should-not-complain-about.html
The lyrics game continues. The current word is "candy" and the one before was "policeman" (or terms therefor).
http://lyricsgame.blogspot.com/
Blogspot has made it easier for people to post, so if you had trouble before this week, please try again.
There's a new topics blog, and this week's topic will be wood. If you have stories, ideas, photos or links, please post!
http://thinkingsticks.blogspot.com/
http://sandradodd.com/wonder
I lifted a photo and song list from the lyrics game, when the word was "wonder," and added it to the page on "wonder." (lower right—Sadie as Wonder Woman, Kirby as a dog dressed as a banana)
http://sandradodd.com/world
Two pages have been combined and redirected to one new page. They used to be "/local" and "/unschoolingotherwise." If you have either of those linked on your own sites, you don't have to change anything! The redirect is quick and quiet.
I've been thinking about "topic chats" again for a while, and this might work. I'm thinking of having a topic each week, and anyone can come by and add links, suggestions, trivia or personal stories here: http://thinkingsticks.blogspot.com/
The ideas I have so far are
fairness [using, in part, "Harrison Bergeron" (a short story)]
wood
bass lines (in music—instrumental, vocal—bass guitar discussion?)
Thanks to the research assistance of Schuyler Waynforth, I have a random quotes generator here now (left, under the random post generator):
http://sandradodd.com/unschooling
Tuesday night, December 11, I'm scheduled to be on The Alan Colmes Show, a syndicated radio talk show out of New York, on Fox Radio. It's 11:00 eastern time, 9:00 Mountain time. There will be someone to refute me (person not yet chosen), and after an exchange (with Alan Colmes moderating) of at least 20 minutes, they'll start taking callers. I won't be on the phone over an hour, I'm told, and they'll keep taking callers after they disconnect from the guests. Three hours altogether, the show lasts.
I don't know how it will go, but I don't see that it can be worse than the Unschooling Discussion list or the forum at unschooling.info. I'll write about it the next day (December 12) here: http://sandradodd.blogspot.com
Unfortunately we don't have an Albuquerque station. We're on about 85
stations across the country. All hope is not lost, though. People can
listen live on www.alancolmesradio.com or thru Sirius 145 or XM 168.
Lauren Stranahan has sent me some broken links, and every page I open I think "I should remind people of this page."
They're not new, but they have some "new improved" aspect:
Television, Children and Making Decisions Rationally
http://sandradodd.com/t/vijay.html
Hangman
http://sandradodd.com/game/hangman
Joyce Fetteroll on Deschooling
http://sandradodd.com/joyce/deschooling
Holly and the Bible
http://sandradodd.com/dot/hollybible
where you can learn how Genesis is like Lord of the Rings
Books and Saxophones
http://sandradodd.com/bookandsax
Music
http://sandradodd.com/music/
(the Yiddish music link is working--the page had moved--but there have been a few other small unannounced bits)
A video by Andrew and some friends, in Maryland, showing a comparison between some aspects of life between schooled and homeschooled kids has been added to the benefits of unschooling teens page:
http://sandradodd.com/teen/benefits
New page on the history of the English language
http://sandradodd.com/englishlanguage
and a new index page because there are more than I'd expected to have on language-related topics.
http://sandradodd.com/english
and additions to the Small Words page (one of my favorites, yet obscure, which is fine)
http://sandradodd.com/smallwords
including a playlist with several of the songs mentioned and quoted.
Reformatted: Grasping Water
http://sandradodd.com/graspingwater
Movies for Unschoolers
New link and the repair of Joyce's link and the formatting
http://sandradodd.com/t/movies
Some new feedback (pro and con):
http://sandradodd.com/feedback
"There's more to unschooling than just not doing school. To make it flourish we need to look at ourselves, our relationship, the way we look at the world in a new way to clear out the thinking that's holding us back." -Joyce Fetteroll
The danger of "Lazy" and other thoughts
http://sandradodd.com/lazy
The recording of the Peaceful Parenting presentation from 2002 is now available to listen to here:
http://sandradodd.com/parentingpeacefully#tape
There are some new comments here:
http://sandradodd.com/feedback
Although my blog isn't really part of the SandraDodd.com site, there are some comments and photos of Marty at the "non con" in Oregon recently in the top entry (or something around November 15, if you're reading this later).
http://sandradodd.blogspot.com
Two videos, each with a story, both worth a look. One is on autonomous learning (what "unschooling" is generally called in the U.K.) and one of Elimar Clemens Buschmann, a juggler, and the father of Robyn Coburn who is featured on my site.
The second one has no sound:
The background:
http://sandradodd.com/internet/love
http://sandradodd.com/learningallthetime
Art about Art, Cartoons about Cartoons, Plays about Plays, Paintings about Paintings...
There's a new link there, to Songs about Singing, which is a playlist based on Lyrics Game topic from a few days ago.
All of that will be added to as time goes on and more suggestions are sent or stumbled upon.