Edited chat on Food, eating
page 162-174 of The Big Book of Unschooling (2009 edition)
online chat, January 9, 2013
http://sandradodd.com/chats/bigbook/pages_162-174_food.html
Edited chat,
Chores, Serving others as a gift, tales of kids helping out voluntarily
http://sandradodd.com/chats/bigbook/pages_175-184_choreServe.html
More, and great, on Minecraft (new page; third of three; the others are linked there)
http://sandradodd.com/minecraft
Edited chat on Gratitude, including the full text of page 185 of The Big Book of Unschooling
http://sandradodd.com/chats/bigbook/page_185_gratitude.html
Printed-article version of Unexpected Benefits of Unschooling, with a history going back a few years, but new on my site last month.
http://sandradodd.com/unexpectedarticle
Some terminology can be misleading.
An old URL has become a directory page!
http://sandradodd.com/wordswords
Two new pages related to that:
Freedom and unschooling
http://sandradodd.com/freedomThe problem with "education":
http://sandradodd.com/education
New wisdom by Joyce Fetteroll, first box on the right (scroll down a bit):
http://sandradodd.com/phrases
New by Colleen Prieto, on helping others in the family (second item):
http://sandradodd.com/chores/gift
The Fabric of an Unschooling Life (new page I had not previously announced):
http://sandradodd.com/fabric
Mudança Gradual, traduzido por Marta Pires ("Gradual Change" in Portuguese)
http://sandradodd.com/portuguese/gradual
Feedback from a Christian perspective (page is new; writing is not):
http://sandradodd.com/feedback/christian
Second quote righthand column, beautiful new quote from Katy Barrett:
http://sandradodd.com/change/
Page is new, sound file is not as new, but has its own page now.
http://sandradodd.com/bignoisypeace
On the Screen Time page, new (Joyce, in the on the right).
A quote:
"Stop looking at the door. See the richness that exists beyond the door."
http://sandradodd.com/screentime
Three new images and links, righthand column, about 2/5 of the way down:
http://sandradodd.com/bigbook/
Marta Pires has put subtitles on the "Doing Life Right" video of me, second image, here:
http://sandradodd.com/portuguese/
Added to my page on Joyce Fetteroll, links to entries in her blog Radical Unschooling Philosophy Illustrated
http://sandradodd.com/joycefetteroll
Long version of an interview that (in edited form) appeared in HSC's magazine recently:
http://sandradodd.com/hsc/interviews/joyce
Ideas about strengthening marriages and avoiding divorce, from mainstream sites:
http://sandradodd.com/divorcereasons
Sylvia Woodman found a typo that made a difference, and I've fixed it. She wrote:
"I was reading the Negativity page and I noticed a small typo. You have a quote from the book of Proverbs "better a dinner of herbs with love" it should be Proverbs 15:17 (not 7). It's a small thing and probably only geeks like me would check but I thought that you would like to know."
http://sandradodd.com/negativity
Nancy gave it to me correctly, but I "typoed" it when I added it to a second page. Here is the first (and correct from the beginnning) citation, on a page called "Advantages of Eating in Peace." It's in a good set of similar examples by me and Schuyler:
http://sandradodd.com/eating/peace
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A story of what happened when someone opened The Big Book randomly (first under "Newest")
http://sandradodd.com/bigbook/
Last month I was published in two magazines and I'll be a regular columnist in one of them.
The HomeSchooler (formerly The California HomeSchooler, still published by the Home School Association of California (HSC), but gearing up to go national
and
Pathways to Family Wellness.The first carried an interview of Joyce Fetteroll, which is not yet on my site. The second reprinted of my article "Rejecting a Pre-Packaged Life," and they laid it out beautifully. http://sandradodd.com/joyPaths (Click to enlarge it there or read it here.)
Mary Burrows has put my words on some tile plaques. I own one of each. They're really attractive. I'm glad to share the link to her Etsy site. My "cut" is to get an occasional tile. :-)
 | How you live in the moment...
and |
Karen James, a Christmas tree, a child surprising his mother...
http://sandradodd.com/chores/tales
My article "Rejecting a Pre-Packaged Life" is in the new issues of Pathways to Family Wellness
Here is a facsimile of the page as it is beautifully formatted there http://sandradodd.com/joyPaths (click to enlarge).
In the magazine, though, on its facing page is a beautiful image of paperdolls, each painted differently.
Here's where it already was on my site: http://sandradodd.com/joy
It was printed last year in the magazine of Kirkhope, Ettrick and Yarrow Parish, in Scotland. It is the most reprinted of my articles; it's fifteen years old.
"Left to his own devices," addition, up top to the "Phrases to hear and avoid" page
http://sandradodd.com/phrases
This was sitting as a draft for over two months and I'm not sure why, but I will use Robbie Prieto's nativity scene as impetus to send it out.
Colleen Prieto, Robbie's mom, thoughtful writer (a new collection)
http://sandradodd.com/colleenprieto/
Click the photo for larger view with comments.
Pushpa Ramachandran, Veda's mom, and a speech pathologist
http://sandradodd.com/pushpa
Follow-up on young adult Zach Sanders, and an essay he wrote about his journey from school-at-home to unschooling and on to being an outstanding university student (see the link on the writing page, righthand box, about his current position).
http://sandradodd.com/writing
http://sandradodd.com/words/zacheducation
Don't forget Just Add Light and Stir (or if you've never heard ot it, there y'go).
I've added the report below to my page with links to interviews:
http://sandradodd.com/interviews
Unschooling; How Learning through Living Leads to Happiness by Sarah Turner, for Principles of Cultural Anthropology (330) at the University of New Mexico in 2012. (Rose Sorooshian was also an informant. She's not named, but those familiar with her will recognize the parts that are about her.)
The direct URL to the anthropology paper is:
http://sandradodd.com/interviews/SarahTurnerMini-Thesis.pdf
(Only read this if you like academic reports. :-)