Photos added

New photos on two pages. The second link is more important than the first, unless you've been wanting more "history of English" in your life.

Etymology
https://sandradodd.com/etymology

Perspective
https://sandradodd.com/perspective

Just Add Light and Stir is up to a cool number of posts: 5,678 So I have that on the randomizer, and will leave it until 6,000, or forever. It will be true either way.
https://justaddlightandstir.blogspot.com/

photo (a link) by Colleen Prieto

Being your Child's Partner

Being your Child's Partner
https://sandradodd.com/childsPartner

Tiny video, commentary, and the longer video the little one came from.

New page, July 29, 2026; Kirby's 40th birthday. Four months from now will be the anniversary of the time I learned to be his partner, not his adversary. That idea changed my world.

photo (a link) by Sandra Dodd

Unschooling in Context

This isn't new, but it wasn't on the randomizer, and it was never announced here, so it has a newness.🙂

https://sandradodd.com/context

The context of unschooling.

Much of why unschooling is the way it is is because of school. What!? 🙂

photo (a link) by Alex Polikowsky

Reading and eating

Two new accounts (new in 2018; new to the page today) on encouraging parents whose child seems late to read:
SandraDodd.com/r/encouragement

New-to-the-site scientific findings about problems with controlling food. Schuyler had written in a chat about food, in 2009:

David's been working on a paper based in some large part on Pam's Economics of TV Watching.

They don't know when they are full Girls are particularly bad at self-regulating their diet after they've been controlled by their parents

They no longer know what full is because they've been told what it is for so long

I added a link to David's paper, and made Schuyler's mention of Pam's paper a link, at:

Food and Unschooling
SandraDodd.com/chats/food

But so you won't need to skim through a chat to get to them:

Economics of Restricting TV Watching of Children
Pam Sorooshian, January 2005
(not new)

Dr. David Waynforth,
Evolution, obesity, and why children so often choose the unhealthy eating option, 2009
(new to the site this week)

photo (a link) by Cátia Maciel

Food choices, and leveling up

I found two lost pages, needing formating and not having been linked anywhere yet. 🙂

Choosing food
https://sandradodd.com/eating/choices

Choices: Level up
https://sandradodd.com/choices/levelup

I'm adding these to the Randomizer, too.

photo (a link) by Janine Davies

Meredith Novak

Added quotes and links to the page on Meredith Novak.
https://sandradodd.com/meredithnovak/

photo (a link) by Denaire Nixon

Looking directly

Writing added to the bottom of the "Look directly at your child" page. https://sandradodd.com/look

Also quoted on Just Add Light and Stir. Real, present, thinking children

photo (a link) by Lydia Koltai

...as it's going along...

Added a meme, quote, and links to the original, from NOT an unschooler, Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia, much of her life):

It's another angle to

Read a little, try a little,
Wait a while, watch.

Jen Keefe had shared the meme in 2016; it came up in facebook memories. Good!

It's here: SandraDodd.com/readalittle

Acceptance, balance

Added material to the Acceptance page:
https://sandradodd.com/acceptance

Rearranged and cleaned up a bit:
Balancing in the Middle Ground
https://sandradodd.com/balance

A new page was created with the removed overflow from that balance page:
https://sandradodd.com/extremes.html
and it's called Balanced Thoughts

photo (a link) by Lisa Jonick

Serious new page

https://sandradodd.com/unschool/
Some old writing came to light and needed a page.
A serious-topics folder needed an index page.

Some of that is not great for newcomers. The definitions pages are easily accessible elsewhere.

Have fun if you want to dive under the surface a bit.

photo (a link) by Sarah Dickinson

Helping freely, food, choices

Robyn Coburn's response to "Why shouldn’t I say, 'Go look it up'?"

I've added it to an existing page (https://sandradodd.com/aradicalthought), but the link should take you right to Robyn's writing. If not, scroll down to the last entry (at least it's last in November 2025).

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Video discussion on food added to https://sandradodd.com/food

The title above the video links to Pam L's page with commentary and podcast options.

Pam Laricchia had a discussion with Sylvia Woodman, Meredith Novak, and Jo Isaac—all writers who are featured on my page. (click on names above for collections of more of their work)

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My writing (good but lost a while) from 2004 added at the bottom (might not always be at the bottom) of Making the Better Choice
https://sandradodd.com/betterchoice

photo (a link) by Lisa Jonick

Repetition

A blogpost led to an e-mail asking me what Writey Drawey is, which led to me going to add the write-drawy link to the page the blogpost led to, which led to me moving a section from that page (and two links) to a page on repetition.

Here are all those links, in case you want to follow the trail I went on this morning:

Real learning is bigger on Just Add Light and Stir

An e-mail asking "what’s Writey Drawy?"

The chat, which went off topic in good ways

Writey-Drawey, which wasn't linked at the chat before, but is now.

Again, again!
The new part is under the purple image.

That led to this announcement post, and to you!

photo (a link) by Cátia Maciel