I've scanned an article from the local paper. It's eight years old, but hey.... I didn't have a scanner then. For a while, after it was new, it was freely available online, but no more. (Now it is again, in a home-job fashion.)
http://sandradodd.com/media/ABQjournal
There are two other articles I had already scanned, and some of you might have missed them the last time they came around, but now they're linked on another new page:
http://sandradodd.com/media
WOW.
First part of the first episode of The Addams Family is quite an unschooling extravaganza, and I had just the place to put it!
http://sandradodd.com/museum
"Doddian"—I've become a footnote AND an adjective. Cool!!
http://theexcitingworldofcricket.blogspot.com/2008/05/problem-essay.html
Read the solution essay, too.
http://sandradodd.com/game/zach
has links to his essays easily found from my site.
Allowance never had its own page before. Now it does.
http://sandradodd.com/math/allowance
On the movies page I'm adding lists of movies that might be good for discussing relationships. There are three lists:
relationships between younger children, between older children, and between children and adults. They're in the righthand column.
http://sandradodd.com/t/movies
There's some more positive feedback, some in Spanish, and I put the most fun negative feedback I ever got on its own page, because of language (use of "the f word," in reference to MY LIST! How shocked should I be? Yeah, not very...).
http://sandradodd.com/feedback
http://sandradodd.com/feedback/rude
I've been spending lots of time outside in my gardenYARD, in case I seem to be less productive online lately, but most of you are probably busy outside too and didn't even notice! (It can't be "garden" for not having rows of food (I have decided). Maybe a flower garden, but nah... yard.)
New writing, lower left:
http://sandradodd.com/eating/monkeyplatter
News on an unschooler who chose school, and how his math went
http://sandradodd.com/math/schoolmath
and it's linked at
http://sandradodd.com/math, beginning of the links section on the left.
Recently on the Thinking Sticks blog:
REAL libraries
Food, History, Fun!
Numerals and Counting
Mystery Art
Keith, Holly and I visited Kirby in Texas:
Birds in Texas
Holly [one morning]
Kirby in April
Monday with Kirby
Twinkies, Texans and Tortoises
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.
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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.
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.
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.)
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).
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
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!)
