TV, sleeping and religion

What a two-year-old wants to photograph

"Now I see the flowers and my DD2's joy."
http://sandradodd.com/t/peace
(second item)

More added to the section on sleeping—a directory page and information on co-sleeping.
http://sandradodd.com/sleep
http://sandradodd.com/sleep/cosleeping

Just the beginnings of a page about religion.
http://sandradodd.com/religion

Lists of good ideas

The ABCs of Unschooling, by Mary Gold
It's not new, but it's refurbished, and might be new to you!
http://sandradodd.com/gold/abc

Principles of Unschooling, by Pam Sorooshian
It's not new, but it's new on my site.
http://sandradodd.com/pam/principles

Deb Lewis's list of Things to Do in the Winter
It's not new at all, but it's nearly winter and there are lots of people who haven't seen it.
http://sandradodd.com/strew/deblist

"MOVIES AS A PLAYGROUND, as tools, as portals
...sharing movies with our kids"
Not brand new, lately updated, and has lists galore!
http://sandradodd.com/movies
(That Heath Ledger example was given a couple of years ago. I was thinking of the connection between "10 Things I Hate About You" and "The Patriot," which isn't the Civil War at all, but there are way more movies about the U.S. Civil War than about the American Revolution, though the recent mini-series on John Adams parallels it without many battle scenes.)

Wishlists for Unschoolers
http://sandradodd.com/wishlist
Maybe you have the need to give a gift to an unschooling family, and that has ideas!

Gifts for Guys to Buy
"Some people are just not cut out to cruise the Barbie aisles. Luckily there are alternatives and you were probably going there anyway...." Not a new article, one of my oldest, pre-webpages, so it's here for being obscure and not often dusted off and brought to light.
http://sandradodd.com/gifts

[Gratuitous snow photos from some other year]

Pam Sorooshian, magic and learning

Pam Sorooshian has written something wonderful which I've called "How to Be a Good Unschooler" (and she didn't mind)
http://sandradodd.com/pam/howto

Magic on TV, and TV on the internet, and magic in other guises
http://sandradodd.com/magic

and it's linked from the TV page too
http://sandradodd.com/tv

and from juggling
http://sandradodd.com/juggling

To the right are some images from July's Learn Nothing Day. Because I got some new photos today, I gathered up what I could find and built a show. I also moved the notes and comments from last summer onto their own page:
http://sandradodd.com/learnnothingday/2008

reasons, young adults, reactions to limits

Reasons to Home School
http://sandradodd.com/pam/reasons
(new new, but new to my site!)

What about after they're not teens anymore?
http://sandradodd.com/youngadults
(If you have stories to add, send them!)

Personal account of the ill effect of limiting sugar:
http://sandradodd.com/eating/idea
(bottom of the page, but maybe read the whole page; it's short)

7th Anniversary of the AlwaysLearning List

The Always Learning List is seven years old and thriving.

Details:
sandradodd.blogspot.com/2008/11/7th-anniversary-of-always-learning-list.html

Knots, credit, French translation, and German article-to-be

A new page: Knots—Small, large, actual, rendered, real and imagined
http://sandradodd.com/math/knots

The Certificate of Empowerment is been translated into French

http://blog.korrigans.free.fr/index.php/2008/11/18/certificat-dautonomisation/

I had five months worth of my geocities website fees paid last spring by kind donors whom I've credited here:

http://sandradodd.blogspot.com/2008/11/gratitude-x-2.html

I have a new article that will be published in German first, and that's all noted there too. After they've published it and after their next-after-that issue comes out, I'll put it on my site.

a clean canvas, the richness of life, peace with teens

Gratuitous photo of the moment: Quiche (mushroom, and ham and onion in half) and cookies (oatmeal/pecan/chocolate chip)

Katy Jennings, at the bottom, about the benefits of providing clean spaces.
http://sandradodd.com/chores/shift

A richer life:
http://sandradodd.com/chores/shift
(not a new page, but I hadn't announced it before)

There's something new by Joanna Murphy here, about teens:
http://sandradodd.com/teen/benefits.html

I hope you enjoy these, and if you find any broken links or typos, please let me know!

Some other new and some improved pages are being tweaked and polished and will be announced soon.

Facets, Transcripts, Screaming

When Corn Grows Wild: Gratuitious photo, of some corn from the birdseed that grew without attention, photographed on the hood of my car last week.

Jenny C / Jenstarc on what makes unschooling work (upper right)
http://sandradodd.com/gettingit

Kelly Lovejoy, right under "transcripts":
http://sandradodd.com/teen/college

"I want to scream!"
http://sandradodd.com/chores/scream
That was three years ago. I wonder if she's still screaming?

That last one's not new, but it's obscure and in cleaning up my "life" section (non-academic aspects of what will help unschooling work—the things kids learn that they would've learned at home anyway), I thought this one might be a good sample of the greater section, which is here:
http://sandradodd.com/life

There are many links out from that, and not all have been upgraded, but many have. I've tweaked and updated many pages this weekend, few of which were worth announcing, so I'll let that screaming about chores page represent the batch.

Always Learning, John Holt, Joyce Fetteroll

The images are the misshapen mulberry leaf from my back yard whose portrait lives at AlwaysLearning; Joyce meeting a prairie dog; Joyce and Kathryn and several Albuquerque bike-trail prairie dogs.

The Always Learning List has a new page on what it's about.
http://sandradodd.com/lists/alwayslearning.html

In summer, the description of that list was changed, and that's documented here:
http://sandradodd.com/alwayslearning

Several of the John Holt pages have been dusted off and upgraded. Deb Lewis is the author of much of this, and John Holt of some of the rest:
http://sandradodd.com/holt/teachyourown

Nobody Sees Backwards
http://sandradodd.com/holt/teachyourownseeing

Right and Left
http://sandradodd.com/holt/teachyourowndirection

Stress and Perception
http://sandradodd.com/holt/teachyourownstress

A Life Worth Living
http://sandradodd.com/holt/alifeworthliving

Because my "Joyce page" was linked in this month's issue of Parental Intelligence, I checked all the links and so it has that new-car smell (figuratively speaking)
http://sandradodd.com/joycefetteroll

More images of Joyce's recent New Mexico visit

Teens, Shakespeare, "Housework"

New writing by Ann Carlson on benefits of unschooling when the teen years arrive (second bit in the main column):
http://sandradodd.com/teen/benefits.html

New bits (videos, bottom) and clean-up, Shakespeare
http://sandradodd.com/shakespeare

First item after the introduction on this page: something by Schuyler about priorities.
http://sandradodd.com/chores/intro


Thanks for reading. Please pass these links on to anyone you think could use them!

Sam Rockwell and Kevin Klein as Pyramus and Thisbe (Bill Irwin as "Wall," who is also Mr. Noodle on Sesame Street)

Good Vibrations Conference Site is open

UPDATE FROM THE FUTURE backdate!? The conference was a good one, and some of the talks are preserved. The photo link below might not work anymore, but the photo and a link to other talks from that conference is here: http://sandradodd.com/listen/connections

Holly took a photo of me especially for the Good Vibrations Unschooling Conference web site, and it's here:

http://goodvibrationsconference.com/presenters.php

It's nearly a year away, but it will be the first time I've spoken near San Diego. I've been in Long Beach and that area before, and Sacramento, and Tempe (near Phoenix)and will be again in March '09), but haven't spoken in the San Diego area. I'm looking forward to it. I hope Kirby will be with me, but it's too far away to know his scheduling requirements. If he can't go, I hope Holly can.

sweets, principles, what it is

True Tales of Kids Turning Down Sweets
http://sandradodd.com/eating/sweets.html
New story, second item, in which a three year old hands back half a honey-ball in favor of pickled garlic

New intro page on principles
http://sandradodd.com/principles/
"I was all, 'what is all this rules vs. principles stuff anyway?' Now, in my unschooling, it seems like the most important part."

These pages were spruced up a bit and I thought it might be a good time to send their links out again for anyone who didn't know about them or who had forgotten about how much can be gained by just re-centering on the basic concept:
http://sandradodd.com/unschool/definition
http://sandradodd.com/unschool/moredefinitions

Holly took this photo of me and Keith, and animated photos I took of her and her boyfriend Brett, above. more