New item, fourth down on the left, Meredith Novak:
http://sandradodd.com/wonder
New stories at "How does it balance out?"
http://sandradodd.com/eating/balance
New page:
Unschoolers on Reality shows! Bad idea!!!
(Producers are making inquiries in at least two countries lately.)
http://sandradodd.com/problems/realityshows
Usually I only put something in one place on my site, but Colleen Prieto's son, Robbie, did a cool thing, and her husband, Robert, said a great thing about it, and Colleen wrote it up sweetly. It's about his allowance.
Three at a blow:
http://sandradodd.com/generosity
http://sandradodd.com/math/allowance
http://sandradodd.com/unexpected
Follow-up page, LiTTLe Conference in Ashford Surrey, July 13-14, 2013
http://sandradodd.com/lttl2013
Michelle Thedaker, on how hard it is to change (new page):
http://sandradodd.com/scary
Child-led learning (new page inspired by something Colleen Prieto wrote)
http://sandradodd.com/child-led
Screentime in the woods? Communicating in the real world. (addition, up top, Brie Jontry)
http://sandradodd.com/screentime
If you cater to his every whim, will he still throw a fit?
More on "whim," new on "to throw a fit."
http://sandradodd.com/phrases
Two new things in Portuguese. The first was never in English.
The second was translated by Marta Pires.
Uma Conversa Sobre o "Unschooling"...Em Português!
http://sandradodd.com/portuguese/exchange
Perguntas mais frequentes sobre o "unschooling" e respectivas respostas
http://sandradodd.com/portuguese/faq
The image is of sculpture in a pond at the Lady Bird Johnson wildflower center near Austin, and it is a link.
Added to the "Respect index"—two dozen "respect" quotes have been added.
http://sandradodd.com/respect/
French translation of Disposable Checklists for Unschoolers:
http://sandradodd.com/french/checklists
I've just added something to my page on divorce. It came up in old e-mail while I was searching for something different. I'm glad I came across it, so it could be saved. It's near the bottom here; you could search "more rights" to find it.
http://sandradodd.com/divorce
"Near the bottom" doesn't seem best in general, but that page has lots of really good things on it.
Part of the longer writing:
"An intact marriage/family has MANY more rights and freedoms than a split family involved with the court system."
Coaching (Choices, Freedom, and other difficult ideas)
by Marta Pires, a collection of quotes, with commentary
http://sandradodd.com/coaching
A mom asked for ideas to help a child who was curious about and fascinated by sewers. Ideas flew!
http://sandradodd.com/sewer
Thomas Laferrière-Meloche visited a real sewer treatment plant, and made a video showing some of that and his minecraft sewers, with a sweet note at the end (near the bottom of that page).
http://sandradodd.com/videogames/minecraft
Beautiful account of love and learning, three paragraphs at the bottom of this page:
http://sandradodd.com/videogames/minecraft
"Who inspired you?" Summary of responses in an intro round at the ALL Unschooling Symposium in Minnesota, May 2013:
http://sandradodd.com/inspiration
Update on European tour schedule! It's about to happen. I leave in two weeks.
http://speakingsandradodd.blogspot.com/p/europe-2013.html
One of my own early parenting inspirations, Lori Odhner, has expressed the wish to own a dogwood tree. That seems EASY! The difference in my life and marriage and relationship with my children that Lori made is HUGE compared to a tree. If any of you know Lori, or have reason to appreciate the help she gave me that I have passed on, take a peek at my project:
http://sandradodd.com/LoriOdhnerTree
The photo is a link. It's also Holly (whose name is changing to Doozy), on some 1960's stairs in the middle of a three-level store that once sold lamps and electric lighting, and now is a thrift shop.
Food as religion? Upper right, box.
http://sandradodd.com/foodproblems.html
Decision making (new writing under the photo)
http://sandradodd.com/decisions
Bernadette Lynn, whose son chose the melon that was surrounded by sweets (third item):
http://sandradodd.com/eating/sweets
New, by Kandace Wright, about the confidence from learning to read on one's own, at the top:
http://sandradodd.com/r/deeper
Halfway down, new stories by Deb Lewis and Colleen Prieto, about learning (not teaching):
http://sandradodd.com/teaching/
Sandra Dodd: Happiness Inside and Out (sound file and written notes)
and
Sandra Dodd: Why Radical Unschooling (sound file and written notes)
A new portfolio example by Brie Jontry, for Noor, Pennsylvania, April 2013:
http://sandradodd.com/curriculum/portfolio.html
New comments on "Precisely How to Unschool":
http://sandradodd.com/howtocomment
Monday June 24, 2013, Joyce Fetteroll, Sandra Dodd and Julie Daniel in Selkirk:
http://speakingsandradodd.blogspot.com/p/selkirk-scotland.html