Rebellion, Successes, "Help!" and Myths (not the good ones)

http://sandradodd.com/rebellion
I had forgotten about this, so much so that when someone asked a straight-out question about rebellion, I didn't send this link. I found it in fortuitously accidental fashion (as usual).

There are additions to these pages:

http://sandradodd.com/unschool/gettingit
http://sandradodd.com/feedback

New title art (by Holly) and rearrangement; deletion of deadish links.

http://sandradodd.com/help
(still working on that one)

http://sandradodd.com/myths
This one looks fine on my Mac, but not so good on the kids' PCs. It's readable either way.
NEW (but not on my site): Two thirds of the way down is a link to something new by an unschooled teenager in Iowa, about parenting and video games. He interviewed me for it.

comparisons, a Spanish translation, Marty's bad poem

Lisa W. wrote a really good summary of what relaxed homeschoolers might do that unschoolers don't
http://sandradodd.com/unschool/vsRelaxedHomeschooling
and it inspired me to gather links to similar things I already had (which I have done)
http://sandradodd.com/comparisons
and to put up other comparisons (which I have not yet done, but will).

"Cómo criar a un niño con respeto" por Sandra Dodd...
http://fishtobirds.blogspot.com/2008/04/cmo-criar-un-nio-con-respeto-por-sandra.html
That is "How to Raise a Respected Child," translated into Spanish by Laura Mascaró, who says she might make a few changes after her brother reads it, but it's there in its first-pass form, and I love the phrase "ese día de panqueque-forzoso." Sounds way better in Spanish than the original "...that forced-pancake day." In Spanish it could be a cool movie title. In English... eh, pancakes.
Laura links the original.

Marty wrote and recited a *terrible* poem in St. Louis a couple of years back and that has been enshrined here:
http://sandradodd.com/marty/poem

For photos at my house recently: Unexpected Beauty (and some flowers)

Thanks for looking!

Sandra

anger, time with kids, change, internet joy

A page that time forgot (or at least I forgot it) now has something new from Schuyler:
http://sandradodd.com/peace/anger

Commentary on "Precisely How to Unschool"
http://sandradodd.com/howtocomment

"It's Getting Easier," by Melissa Hice, right-hand column:
http://sandradodd.com/peace/becoming.html

Exciting internet uses (a page with quite a bit of Australian connection)
http://sandradodd.com/internet/love




Extra other:
New Way to Walk at the topics blog,


Photos of Marty and Holly at the top of the Sandias,
(on my blog, and also there;
Kirby as a baby jack-in-the-box, and my 24th wedding anniversary (same post, those two).

toy guns, small words, magic window

Another peaceful kid with a toy gun:
http://sandradodd.com/peace/guns

A new song is added to the "small words" collection, a page to note ancient language in modern literature.
http://sandradodd.com/smallwords

Magic Window
http://sandradodd.com/magicwindow
The congruence passed when Marty turned 19, but the magic remains.

It's been busy lately on the Always Learning list, which usually leads to more page additions and new pages. Things will slow down again before long, I'm sure.

peace, spouses, museum, bongos

New material, up top:
sandradodd.com/peace/newview

Spouses—how unschooling can improve relationships
sandradodd.com/spouses

Your House as a Museum has been touched because I found the bongos,
and cleaned up the format.
sandradodd.com/museum

The aforementioned and long-previously mentioned bongos:
sandradodd.blogspot.com...bongos

Holly took that photo a few days ago.

dads, times tables, math (and a typical day)

This is a problem: "dads, times tables, math"

It's misleading. None of those three had anything to do with either of the other two. Fun, huh?

I left them there because that's the order in which I added the links to draft, but seriously, they're unrelated.

And so, to the links:

new bits and clean-up on the dads page
http://sandradodd.com/dads

new stories about multiplication (the scary "times tables"), and some
older stories moved from a more obscure page to this guessable-link page
http://sandradodd.com/timestables

The Return of Linda Wyatt! (with updates, for the front page of the
math section, which has always featured Linda's writing)
http://sandradodd.com/math

There's a new "Typical Days" account, in photos:
http://sandradodd.com/day/amanda
(Those are Amanda's girls to the right.)

Noisy Peace

Not news on my site, but of my words elsewhere.

Sandra Dodd - A Loud Peaceful Home The Victoria Home Learning Network of the Greater Victoria area (British Columbia, Canada) has quoted me extensively and linked to my site. If you have friends or correspondents in that area, send them this: http://www.vhln.org/

They didn't link to this page, but I can!
http://sandradodd.com/peace/noisy

I like the bio that was with that, so I've brought it here for fun.

Sandra Dodd is the mostly-peaceful mother of primarily-peaceful children, in a generally peaceful home in Albuquerque. Her dog is at peace with her cats. Sandra once taught Jr. High English, in a long-ago age, but met Keith Dodd and they lived happily ever after (so far so good).

history of words, Donovan, criticism

A new quote and some page clean-up on Etymology: Unschooling Kids and
the History of Words
http://sandradodd.com/etymology

New pages just today which will have more info later:
http://sandradodd.com/donovan (not so directly unschooling, but
for a big current interest)

http://sandradodd.com/unschool/criticism (directly unschooling, but
misconceived)

Recent words on the Lyrics game: left, music, magic
http://lyricsgame.blogspot.com

Russian Nesting Dolls

Nesting Dolls, some history, a Sesame Street segment, and tie-ins to ecology and other big issues. Art, history, politics, humor. USSR meets Flight of the Conchords on Sesame Street. (Your comments and links are welcome there!)

a new typical day, sleeping, and worms

Sandra Dodd's home for wayward worms

New: http://sandradodd.com/day/nicole added to Typical Days Improved: http://sandradodd.com/sleeping Coming Soon: http://sandradodd.com/worms (well the worm-house page and photos are there, but the home isn't yet occupied) The worms were delivered Friday 2/29. More photos sometime...)

criticism, defense, gradual change and marginal unschooling

...and a great definition of unschooling, and something new on morning glories.

Those who read AlwaysLearning have already seen it.
I was criticized and defended.
http://sandradodd.com/feedback

A reminder about making gradual changes (new page)
http://sandradodd.com/gradualchange

What isn't unschooling? (new page)
http://sandradodd.com/unschool/marginal

The best summary of unschooling I've ever seen, added to the right here:
http://sandradodd.com/unschool/definition

A video (I didn't make it) of how morning glories twine, added here (thanks, Rue!)
http://sandradodd.com/morningglories

I realize I've had lots of updates in the past week. It won't last. For a while, I was only working on SCA pages. I'm going to Arizona on the weekend to speak in Tempe (http://www.hena.us/conference.html)so for a few days I won't be online at all. Don't be afraid that I'll send this many updates all the time.

The photo is by Holly. She put it on my MySpace.

Thanks for reading!

Sandra

an eight-year-old error

I was browsing through Moving a Puddle because Holly's reading some of it for the first time, and a friend of hers might be reading it. I found an error.

"Damn it!" I said to no one. Marty came in.

"What?"

"A typo. Well, not a typo. An editing error." I read it to him. It's on page 42


In a very kind voice Marty said, "Well your life will be over soon and you won't have to worry about it."

"Thanks!" I said brightly, and I meant it, because honestly—how much do I beat myself about something that two editors missed and I missed and that doesn't harm anyone's safety or progress?

Marty said "I'm just here to help." But honestly he did help.

My big error is in having adverbs which should've been changed to adjectives when I re-wrote some part of that middle phrase:

It’s about how people learn—how easily and effortlessly natural learning is, and how difficult-to-impossible “formal education” is compared to the real learning that goes on every day of a person’s life.

DOH! should be "easy and effortless"

Here's all I can do at the moment. I can put that article online with the corrections. It's one of the essays that hadn't been anywhere but in its original publication (in Enchanted Families, a local newsletter for homeschoolers) and in Moving a Puddle.

Now it will be here: http://sandradodd.com/input