Something new at the bottom, about peace with spouses (works for children, too), from Rippy Dusseldorp
http://sandradodd.com/spouses
Bonding, with addition of writing by Caren Knox and Joyce Fetteroll at the bottom:
http://sandradodd.com/bonding
New page with something by Debbie Regan about whether an unschooled child can "be behind."
http://sandradodd.com/behind
New on the "service" page, by Manuela Jaramillo, righthand column, partway down:
http://sandradodd.com/service
School might be better for some kids. New, by Karen James at
http://sandradodd.com/school/
More added to the page looking at lyrics and poetry using almost all native English words:
http://sandradodd.com/smallwords
Amy Childs has done a beautiful podcast about Learn Nothing Day. Besides my voice and Amy's, you can hear Alex Polkowsky, Hema Bharadwaj, Julie Daniel, and Amy's daughter Kayla.
http://unschoolingsupport.com/learn-nothing-day/
(Sound file, fifteen minutes)
a couple of links to go with that:"Try not to learn. Don't try to learn. Those two aren't the same thing but they're close enough for beginners." (from the last paragraph of this 1998 interview: An Interview with Sandra Dodd
Criticism of Learn Nothing Day: http://sandradodd.com/learnnothingday/critics
"Why we unschooled" (written a few years ago, about a story from 1990 or so)
This is on my blog, but I suppose some of those posts should be included as resources. I won't announce all of them, but you can subscribe there if you're interested in more personal things about me or my family.
http://sandradodd.blogspot.com/2014/06/why-we-unschooled.html
Nice feedback, lefthand column. I don't save all of it (some I print and put in a special box without quoting elsewhere), but these seemed special.
http://sandradodd.com/feedback/
New page on being open to things, people, life:
http://sandradodd.com/open
Older page I thought had been announced, because I had used it on Just Add Light and Stir
http://sandradodd.com/boredom/halfempty
It has a good story, so I'm glad I discovered it hadn't been announced yet! and I added a bit.
Gratitude—living with gratitude all the time. (Additions at the top of the page.)
http://sandradodd.com/gratitude/
A new image (a video Alex Polikowsky showed me) has been added to this page
http://sandradodd.com/bookmotif
and I quoted from that (obscure) page on Just Add Light and Stir
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (serious and humorous)
http://sandradodd.com/maslow
Photo of a lone tree by the side of a two-lane highway in southern New Mexico, in early morning sun.
(Links to a Just Add Light and Stir post.)
Colleen Prieto on very cool connections her son is making, on the Connections page, down near the photo.
http://sandradodd.com/connections/
Three videos; two I'm in (English and Spanish) and one my book is in (Spanish). New to that page.
(Two have been announced here, the third had not.)
http://sandradodd.com/spanish/
More links added to the page of interviews—the videos above, and the interviews of Rippy and Julie (announced here recently):
http://sandradodd.com/interviews
Two pages on questions, with easy-to-remember URLs, "faq" and "questions":
https://sandradodd.com/faq
https://sandradodd.com/questions
Spelling, new title art
https://sandradodd.com/spelling
Problems with education. Frank's part was there, my part added, and links added.
https://sandradodd.com/education
The image is Pam Sorooshian with her grandson, Wyatt, and links to a quote from Pam ten years ago.
I'm moving all my Learn Nothing Day notes and art to a blog with a randomizer. If you subscribe to that blog, you will see each new bit of art, and some of the older things, once or twice a week until it speeds up in late July. (Then, a long break until next year.)
http://learnnothingday.blogspot.com/2014/05/peace-and-beauty.html
The Learn Nothing Day feed is showing up on my main page, too (next to Just Add Light and recent posts from this site news blog).
http://sandradodd.com
My interview of Julie Daniel, which was in the March issue of HSC's magazine The Homeschooler:
Unschooling in the World: The Efficiency of Unschooling
http://sandradodd.com/hsc/interviews/julie.html
New on breathing, Caren Knox (in a box 2/3 down), in response to a meditation question.
http://sandradodd.com/breathing
Continuing to collect examples of cool clues from unintended phrases (righthand box, bottom).
http://sandradodd.com/mindfulofwords
Thanks to Joyce Fetteroll, this page has been updated and expanded!
http://sandradodd.com/people/kathyward/
Kathy Ward was one of the early online writers, on unschooling. At the time there was a great deal of ADD/ADHD concern; Kathy addressed that. Also, video games and dyslexia.
Homeschooling: Cómo ayudar a nuestros hijos a tomar decisiones
Streamed live on 22 Apr 2014
Maria José Cifuentes, Yvonne Laborda, Sandra Dodd
Sandra Dodd e Yvonne Laborda hablan de que dejar a nuestros hijos tomar decisiones, si es que a nosotros no se nos dió esa oportunidad, puede ser sanador para nosotros como padres. También se habla de que tomar decisiones empodera, del peligro de pensar que "tienen que..." o "no tienen más remedio que ...", de si realmente toman decisiones o si actuan según el ambiente familiar, de educar sin escuela (homeschooling, unschooling…)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFIJFoVjq9s&feature=share