Rearrangement

For the first time in a long time, I rearranged my index page:
http://SandraDodd.com
I moved the SCA stuff elsewhere (link at the bottom of the middle section) and put a remote feed to Just Add Light and Stir, which will update itself every day. Otherwise, it's about the same.

I've moved notifications of speaking to its own blog. Some of the links are to other blogs, but that's because some events are run by others, in other languages, and because I'm really enjoying having a blog particular to international trips, so I can keep my photos and exciting news there.
http://speakingsandradodd.blogspot.com/
Planned talks in the next two years (some more solid than others): MA, NJ-maybe, OR, France, Scotland, The Netherlands, England, CA, FL, NM, Portugal, Spain, CA-maybe, Australia, India.

Because other people's webpages disappear, I'm starting to try to save any translation of my writings (or Joyce's, or Pam's, or others of that ilk) that I come across. I have collections in six languages, with hints or promises of a few more. French, particularly, is really ratcheting up. There will be some Portuguese translations created in preparation for June 2013 (Joyce is going there with me).

The page for that is called "translation":
http://sandradodd.com/translation/

Labels, Languages, ALL Unschooling 2012

Something new by Jenny Cyphers at "Problems with labelling children"
http://sandradodd.com/labels

An attempt to gather and preserve translations of unschooling writings:
http://sandradodd.com/translation
(Yet another site has disappeared, and though I retrieved some with the Way Back Machine, some will likely be gone forever.)

There will be another ALL Unschooling Symposium in Albuquerque this December, and you can subscribe there to receive updates on that. The schedule has been published, and I'll start taking applications in a few weeks. Attendees will be expected to be members of the Always Learning discussion list (at least one of the parents), and to be familiar with Joyce Fetteroll's unschooling site and mine. It's not a gathering for beginning beginners.
http://allunschooling2012.blogspot.com/p/schedule.html

Adam Daniel, Limits, Netherlands & France

Some of Adam Daniel's presentation in Albuquerque from December 31, 2011:
http://sandradodd.com/adamlearns
(Adam is six years old and was one of the speakers
at the ALL Unschooling Symposium.)
the photo is by Tim Mensch.

French translation
http://www.journaljose.blogspot.com/2012/01/les-limites_17.html
of "Limits"
http://justaddlightandstir.blogspot.com/2012/01/limits.html

Plans for speaking in the Netherlands and in France:
http://sandraeurope2012.blogspot.com/p/netherlands.html
http://sandraeurope2012.blogspot.com/p/france.html

Sugar, expansion, courage

Photo of Deb Lewis by Tim Mensch, Albuquerque, December 30, 2011

Addition of a story about how many sugar cubes one child will eat, given a full box:
http://sandradodd.com/eating/sugar
(third bit down the page)

Twinkies and blueberries, second small bit at the top:
http://sandradodd.com/eating/sweets

The principles that make unschooling work can expand into all of one's life. Sylvia Woodman gave me permission to share something she wrote about her feelings as her mother was in intensive care. I will link a small bit from which you can choose to see more or not.
http://justaddlightandstir.blogspot.com/2012/01/do-what-it-takes.html

Deb Lewis, on Becoming Courageous
http://sandradodd.com/deblewis/courage

Issues, speaking

Expansion of "When Parents Have Issues"
http://sandradodd.com/issues/

Summer plans (speaking in Scotland, England, the Netherlands and France in 2012)
http://sandraeurope2012.blogspot.com/
If you're interested in that one, please subscribe there, upper right of that page.

I'm speaking in Vancouver, Washington in May; in Sacramento, California in August; somewhere in the NE U.S. sometime in the fall. Information on the first two:
http://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com/2011/10/my-speaking-plans-for-next-nearly-year.html

There will be another ALL Unschooling Symposium in Albuquerque this December, though registration isn't yet open.
http://allunschooling2012.blogspot.com/

"Choix," food in quantity, dads

La Valeur des Choix
Catherine Goudouchaouri's translation of "The Value of Choices" (a page with various authors)
http://sandradodd.com/french/choix (new)

Several translations of Just Add Light and Stir posts have been made, and are linked here:
http://sandradodd.com/french (additions)

Bingeing and hoarding (lesser variations of those, and food, and unschooling)
http://sandradodd.com/eating/quantities (new)

Dads (a paper-folding story of now-grown unschooled man)
http://sandradodd.com/dads (addition)

Feedback, Boredom, Spirituality, Le monde est à elle

All new pages:

More about this photo, by Sandra Dodd, in Bunwell, in Norfolk

Very nice feedback:
http://sandradodd.com/feedback/betsyS

Boredom
http://sandradodd.com/boredom

Spirituality
http://sandradodd.com/spirituality

Another French translation (brief, but sweet) from Just Add Light and Stir:
http://journaljose.blogspot.com/2011/12/le-monde-est-elle.html

"Results"

Here are some comments about when and natural learning starts to really show, and what it looks like.

New in the middle of this page:
http://sandradodd.com/deschoolingcomments
"... That has now changed and he has many interests—baking, voice-acting, chemistry, comedy writing, the Rennaisance (thanks, Merlin and the BBC!), and on and on. He had to find a peaceful home in himself before he could start to decorate it with knowledge."

Without deschooling on the child's part:
http://sandradodd.com/feedback/betsyS
"It's all come true...the kindness, the respect, the sparkle."

French translations

Four articles (two by me, one by Pam Sorooshian and one by Deb Lewis) and ten "Just Add Light and Stir" posts are now linked on the French page.
SandraDodd.com/french

Thanks to Catherine Goudouchaouri, Claire Rakotonimaro, and Edith Chabot, of the UK, France and Quebec, respectively, for these gifts of translation! Please pass the links on to anyone who might want more unschooling input in French.

The new pages are:

Imagination De Deb Lewis - Traduit par Catherine Goudouchaouri
Respirer Traduit par Catherine Goudouchaouri
Pam Sorooshian's "I LIVE THEREFORE I LEARN: Living an Unschooling Life.", a translation by Claire Rakotonimaro
L'école dans ma tête Traduit par Edith Chabot

Also by Edith Chabot, from Just Add Light and Stir:

• Quatre etapes pour le unschooling
  
• Marge de manoeuvre et liberté
  
• Soyez là où est votre enfant & Here today !
  
• Un environnement fluide et riche
  
• Unschooling et objectifs
  
• Plus ils en ont...
  
• Philosophie unschooling
  
• Vie en cours
  
• Un mode de vie conscient
  
• Des adultes, pas des enfants
  

Photo by Leon McNeill, of Claire and me, last summer, in Baud, Bretagne

1994, 1999 (typical days at my house)

"Out of Pink Crayons"
http://sandradodd.com/pinkcrayons

Transcriptions of things published many years ago, but never on my site until now.

On the day I wrote the first part, Holly was two years old, nearly three. She's twenty years old now. The follow-up was written at the end of 1999 or beginning of 2000, because Holly was eight and Marty was ten. There's only a small window between their birthdays.

There are photos and links to other photos, too. Anyone who thinks of me as the mother of young adults can visit a time I had nap-taking children I could carry around on my hip.

The Past, The Future and Now

The talk I gave in London last summer can be listened to while looking at the power point presentation that went with it. Tadaa!

http://sandradodd.com/listen/london2011.html

There were two tongue-fumbles, but I put notes at the bottom. The slide show doesn't advance on its own. You'll need to change it yourself. Good luck. :-) [No problem just running it back and forth randomly while you're listening, really.]




This photo is me with Emma Fuller. She was over at my house the other day for Holly's birthday, and said she hadn't seen me since London. This was taken the day before I spoke at the LiTTLe Conference. If they have another one, I'm definitely going back.

UK article and chitchat

I had posted something here that I meant to post at http://unschooling.blogspot.com/2011/11/womanmagazine-uk.html

Something else new but not on my site is a new link to a review of this last summer's London conference: http://www.lttl.org.uk/ The fourth link is new to the site, and she especially liked Schuyler's presentation.

Just Add Light and Stir continues.

This note is here so that anyone who got an earlier e-mail and tries to follow it back won't be frustrated. :-)
Have a nice November!

Gratuitous photo is of Holly on her 20th birthday, two days ago, in the parking lot after a nice lunch with the rest of her family (minus Kirby) and most of the McNeill's (minus Helene and Sophie, whom we'd spoken with by Skype the day before).