Gradual Change, Solitude, Choices in French

Gradual Change, second item new, by Pam Sorooshian:
http://sandradodd.com/gradualchange

Time for Solitude, new page inspired by some writing by Connie Coyle
http://sandradodd.com/being/home.html

French translations by Catherine Goudouchaouri:
http://sandradodd.com/betterchoice.html
(First paragraph, translated on the same page; Pam Sorooshian's words)
and
http://sandradodd.com/french/expectations
(of Robyn Coburn's Expectations )

Clicking the image will take you to a post at Just Add Light and Stir.

Book Discounts

#1 because I'll be away from home for ten weeks or so, beginning tomorrow, I'm going to disable book orders from my site, but

#2 you can get them from Lulu.com, and they have a special until May 18 (link below), and

#3 you can order directly from Amazon (without shipping, if you have an Amazon Prime account).

Direct Amazon links:

The Big Book of Unschooling

Moving a Puddle

Minecraft, Nest, Add Light and Stir

Learning from Minecraft
sandradodd.com/videogames/minecraftlearning
a new page joins the Minecraft page you might already have seen, but for the benefit of new readers...
sandradodd.com/videogames/minecraft

New bit on Building an Unschooling Nest, third section or so, Caren and Pam:
sandradodd.com/nest

Just Add Light and Stir has over 1000 e-mail subscribers not, and over 400 by other blog-notification means.
My daughter Holly created a facebook page for Just Add Light, after I used one of her friends' photos (David Jio)
and yesterday I used one by her boyfriend.

The facebook page is here:
http://www.facebook.com/JustAddLightAndStir

Breathing, socialization and cake

Something new, about yoga at work, and parenting is work!! (Work you can't well leave, so the info can be very useful, right away.)
http://sandradodd.com/breathing

Socialization, new link to an outside blog, upper lefthand photo (in the "all photos are links" section)
and I put something short there (top) from a talk I gave.
http://sandradodd.com/socialization/

Cake (new cake by Marin Holmes, first in the lefthand column)
The page is about what cakes represent, and the juju of cake sacrifice, but the art is just FUN!
http://sandradodd.com/cake

Child's partner, Portuguese, and a poetic rant

Addition to being your child's partner, a quote of Schuyler Waynforth, which quotes Pam Sorooshian and links to something she wrote. (The new material is the second item on the page.)
http://sandradodd.com/partners/child.html

There is a page for Portuguese translations. At the moment it has five "Just Add Light and Stir" entries, but there is a translation of an interview in its final editing stages, and that will be added when it's ready.
http://sandradodd.com/portuguese/
Marta Pires is the translator, and also the organizer of a gathering in Lisbon a year from now at which Joyce Fetteroll and I will speak and also, I hope, Alex Polikowsky (who lives in Minnesota but grew up in Brazil)

Alex wrote something this week that I've saved, too, to help when people think unschooling is doing nothing. It's the theme of recent days, and she has said it quite strongly.
http://sandradodd.com/misconceptions

Bonding, refreshing, noisy peace

This page is NOT finished, but Schuyler wrote something worth reading all by itself, and I can add to it later.
http://sandradodd.com/bonding

Big Noisy Peace, a sound file, is in two places on my site now, free to listen to there or to download:
http://sandradodd.com/peace/noisy
http://sandradodd.com/refresh

The sound files page is cleaned up a bit:
http://sandradodd.com/listen

And part two of the Peaceful Parenting talk from years ago is easily available to hear freely now, here:
sandradodd.com/com/parentingpeacefully

Just Add Light and Stir has nearly 1000 subscribers now. You can click the photo to go to a recent entry, with a quote from Deb Lewis.

gradual change and chores; gathering in Massachusetts

Christina Daharry, about the benefits of moving gradually away from chores, quoted on two pages:
Gradual change, and "Making the Shift" (in the chores section):
http://sandradodd.com/gradualchange
http://sandradodd.com/chores/shift.html

OH! And I used the same background as one of those pages for the website for the ALL in May gathering, May 18-20, 2012:
http://allinmay2012.blogspot.com/
Always Learning Live Unschooling Symposium:
Four speakers, in Massachusetts, camping event near enough Worcester that people can get a hotel room if necessary (and there are some bunks).
$60 for one attendee, $100 for a family, rope-climbing activities on Sunday

the photo is a link, too

Pets, One thing leads to another, Sugar

The "pets" page from the Big Book, and something Pam Sorooshian just wrote:
http://sandradodd.com/pets

Julie Sweeney, up top of the page on young adults
http://sandradodd.com/youngadults/

Sugar and young children, something new up top by Deb Lewis:
http://sandradodd.com/eating/sugar

ALL in May (symposium in Massachusetts)

If you're in that area, please pass the link on to other locals who are already familiar with my site, Joyce's or the Always Learning list.

May 18-20, 2012
Always Learning Live Unschooling Symposium,
a short session in Massachusetts!
YMCA Harrington Outdoor Center (near Worcester — map)

Although it's too soon to make a paid reservation, I expect it will be about $100 per family, or not much more. Maybe less. We need to know more about expenses and the expected turnout, SO... if you know you might be interested in attending, please e-mail me: Sandra@SandraDodd.com

MORE DETAILS:http://speakingsandradodd.blogspot.com/p/spring-in-new-england.html

Growth, marriages, babies

New page: Growth
http://sandradodd.com/growth

New quote and link on "Divorce (Prevention of, for Unschoolers)"
http://sandradodd.com/divorce
It's near the bottom, and begins "Couples whose marriages are sick are often skittish about seeking help."

Middle item on babies learning
http://sandradodd.com/babies/

Little Gems, Reality, Texas, Joyce in German

Tiny bits of great writing
http://sandradodd.com/language/shortbursts.html

Would you rather live in the stone age, or live now?
http://sandradodd.com/reality/
(Hint: You don't actually have a choice.)

I've added a new Texas statewide unschooling group to my world links pages.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Texasunschoolers/
has been added to http://sandradodd.com/world

One addition to the recent collection of German translations. The first one, under Joyce Fetteroll:
http://sandradodd.com/german/

I lifted the image from the Texas Unschoolers page!

Dads, Eating, Phrases, Sleeping

Dads, unschooling, issues
http://sandradodd.com/issues/dads

A new article (2008) linked at
http://sandradodd.com/eating/research
An Italian study reported in the British Journal of Nutrition, "Influence of parental attitudes in the development of children eating behaviour"

A new example added to "Phrases to hear and avoid" (up top)
http://sandradodd.com/phrases

Three new photos of sleeping children added to the "slideshow" at
http://sandradodd.com/sleeping