Sparklers, Connections

Added two sparkler photos (and commentary, and links)
https://sandradodd.com/sparklers
...to a page I had never ever tried to announce.

Added a couple of stories to a page about kids making connections:
Once you start looking for connections...
https://sandradodd.com/connections/example

photo (a link) by Janine Davies

Small words, Joyous meals, "Junk food"

New in 2023, about something very old
https://sandradodd.com/writing/small

I remodeled a page by Shan Burton, with photos about moving from rules to enjoyment of food and of eating: Food and Assumptions...A True Unfettering!
https://sandradodd.com/eating/childhood

New page, 2023, on moving above and beyond the idea of "junk food"
https://sandradodd.com/eating/junk

Interviews re-discovered; recordings of presentations

Two interviews (originally on paper; then on website; now my website):

Why a Former Teacher Kept Her Own Kids Out of the Classroom
https://sandradodd.com/interviews/stlouis2011.html

Debating How Kids Learn—Interview, rescued, in which I was quoted (and was given the last word):
https://sandradodd.com/interviews/debatingHowKidsLearn.html

Edinburgh Home Education Network waited to be sure these recordings were secure and would still be available, before taking their old site down (notes are there):
https://sandradodd.com/speaking/2011Edinburgh/

photo (a link) by Jo Isaac

Sacrifices (magical and otherwise)

Magical sacrifices (not the kinds that work; not the things that help unschoolers)
https://sandradodd.com/sacrifice

Sacrifice, in a good way, for unschooling parents
https://sandradodd.com/sacrifice/tradeoff

photo (a link) by Gail Higgins

Infants, Food Connections, Debating "Balance"

Something added to the page on Infants (second section, for now):
https://sandradodd.com/babies/infants.html

Food Connections / Food Tie-in with Books and Movies Page started long ago, found and expanded with a discussion from 2002
https://sandradodd.com/foodconnections

New page of older interview:
Debating How Kids Learn—response to "an expert" who said unschooling was ridiculous
https://sandradodd.com/interviews/debatingHowKidsLearn.html
(unfortunately, not a direct, real response, because the conversation was created by the interviewer from two interviews, but she let me win)

photo (a link) by Janine Davies

Respect/freedom; multiply by 18

On "freedom," in light of respect for others, and for realities. New to the site; from the book.
https://sandradodd.com/freedom/limits.html

Story told in 2001, the day it happened, though it's been reported since. Multiplication, unschooled teens impressing older people, various other confidence-boosting bits.
https://sandradodd.com/timestablesOriginal
(added to my site in May 2022)

photo (a link) by Sarah S.

MMA fighting, Actively Unschooling, Do it Well!

Addition to Focus, Hobbies, Obsessions:
Richard Jennings was unschooled, in Alamogordo, New Mexico, and has moved from local to regional Mixed Martial Arts tournaments. Video interview added to:
https://sandradodd.com/focus

Not NEW new, but had not been announced, on unschooling actively: https://sandradodd.com/activeunschooling

"Do it well" found unfinished; finished it! Stabilized it; added a bit.
https://sandradodd.com/doitwell

photo (a link) by Sandra Dodd, of Holly

Homebodies and cocooning

"Seasons, Ebb and Flow"—when things happen to change patterns, relax into it. https://sandradodd.com/day/ebbandflow


"Time for Solitude"—being home, on purpose, sometimes
https://sandradodd.com/being/home

photo (a link) by Cass Kotrba

Small joys, particular people

New page on small joys:
https://sandradodd.com/smalljoys
(Formerly a blog post; worth keeping; video of me.)

New page, info on and collection of links to writings of Renee Cabatic:
https://sandradodd.com/renee/

Upgrade, update of page on Robyn Coburn: https://sandradodd.com/robyncoburn

photo (a link) by KristivaStack

Avoiding divorce, Accountability, Babies Eating Food

Uncomfortable Information—Serious advice about avoiding divorce, about which people complain
https://sandradodd.com/partners/controversy

"Life is Good" and the amazing Schuyler Waynforth—An early exchange between Renee Cabatic and Schuyler Waynforth
https://sandradodd.com/schuyler/renee.html


NEW PAGE: Babies Eating with their Hands / Babies reach for food
https://sandradodd.com/babies/hands

photo (a link) by Sandra Dodd

Elvis/music boxes in musicals, Cursive writing,

Two pages cleaned up, with a new story added to the collection about unschoolers learning to write.

New story from Annie Regan, at "Cursive, unschooling, change, musings" https://sandradodd.com/cursive

"How Elvis Appears to Unschoolers," which turns into music boxes in musicals (Elvis in "Blue Hawaii," Dick Van Dyke in "Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang," and the opening song of "The Book of Mormon" https://sandradodd.com/dot/elvis

photo (a link) by Ester Siroky

Parenting Peacefully, Fact, Food

Usually I try to save up three similar or related pages, but this one is long and important. In January 2022 I have added to the page called Parenting Peacefully, a list that Alex Arnott wrote. It's the fourth item or so.
https://sandradodd.com/parentingpeacefully
That page is long, solid, rich, and has a sound file you can hear there, or download and keep.

New to the site: Fact/Fallacy/Opinion (from The Big Book of Unschooling)
https://sandradodd.com/fact

New page, sound and pictures, about FOOD and unschooling
https://sandradodd.com/foodlisten

photo (a link) by Lydia Koltai