Two more sound files new to the site:
Happiness Inside and Out (from 2012)
http://sandradodd.com/hsc/happiness
And a new page on happiness, easier to find by memory (if you can remember this much happiness):
http://sandradodd.com/happiness
Why "Radical" Unschooling?—sound file and many notes
http://sandradodd.com/hsc/radical
Two new sound files (and links for free downloads):
Partnerships and Teams in the Family
With notes and a playable sound link:
http://sandradodd.com/hsc2010.html
At the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/F4SandraDoddPartnershipsTeamsInTheFamilyDSEE9E1
Unschooling: How to Screw it Up
With notes and a playable sound link:
http://sandradodd.com/hsc2010.html
At the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/SandraDoddUnschoolingHowToScrewItUp
And some notes about those and other fun things:
http://sandradodd.com/hsc2010.html
New (newly finished enough to announce) page on the claim or fear that things are "poison," and Joyce's logical responses:
http://sandradodd.com/poison
There is another page at eating/poison that was announced in 2015, but the two can't be combined. The older page is called "Let them eat candy," and addresses the problem of a candy-deprived child being more likely to eat grandma's pills, or soap pods.
http://sandradodd.com/eating/poison
Two different topics, but both in support of parents giving children opportunities to make their own choices, and both warning against the dangers of parental fear and over-control.
New, on meditation (this will surely receive additions)
http://sandradodd.com/meditation
"Screentime" is not what adults call using their computers or phones. What all is IN there? (new page)
http://sandradodd.com/screentime/not
Video added about ways to treat autistic kids (sounds just like unschooling).
http://sandradodd.com/labels
A link-rich page about the idea of knowing what direction you intend to go, so that choices can be made happily and sensibly:
http://sandradodd.com/direction
Somehow that page, created in late 2014, was never announced.
It's a good one!
Some Thoughts on Later Reading
http://sandradodd.com/hsc/readinglater.html
Some similarities between recovery programs and unschooling discussions
http://sandradodd.com/recovery
New quote and image added to the page on perspective. Looks like a fish in a hamster cage. Isn't.
http://sandradodd.com/perspective
Thoughts about doing better, including knowing what is NOT better. Links to several better-things.
http://sandradodd.com/better
Additions and new title: School math in history, and school math after unschooling
http://sandradodd.com/math/schoolmath
"Reading age in unschooled kids": Jo Isaac's 2016 survey with graphs of ages at which unschoolers learned to read
http://sandradodd.com/readingage.html
Collection of writings by Jo Isaac, and links to recorded interview and transcript "Redefining Success"
http://sandradodd.com/joisaac/
Light and Lightness, with inspiration, photos, and pretty shadows
http://sandradodd.com/light
When we answer the wrong question:
http://sandradodd.com/wrongquestion
Something new by a mom named Tracey, on the page on spirituality.
http://sandradodd.com/spirituality.html
How DO people acquire respect or social credits?
http://sandradodd.com/points
New page, because it comes up two or three times a year, about kids' teeth and options and compassion and such
http://sandradodd.com/dentist
New page, Karen James on trust (and I added some of her photos with links to other writings)
http://sandradodd.com/karenjames/trust
Some parents say "oooh, Waldorf," with dreamy eyes. Unschooling is way better.
http://sandradodd.com/waldorf
There is something new, about a 19-year-old essay, "Knowing Everything."
If you haven't read it, you should (and the commentary).
If you have read it, read it again (which is what the commentary is about).
http://sandradodd.com/zeneverything
A text-chat-style interview was published in July that had been mostly unavailable for ten years. I've added it at
http://sandradodd.com/interviews
but its home is http://homeschoolrealm.com/sandra-dodd/
I was interviewed in June 2017 by Rebecca Bohman at The Luminous Mind. That podcast is available to hear here on YouTube:
Episode 197 - Sandra Dodd, “Everything Counts”
Jessica Hughes has a series I like called "An Unschooling Journey," on a new site called Steemit, about unschooling.
http://sandradodd.blogspot.com/2017/07/an-unschooling-journey.html
These three links were brought here four years ago, but one has additions, and they're a good set.
New link added to page on reality (and note there that I created reality!)
Would you rather live in a stone-age village? Early 19th century sod house?
http://sandradodd.com/reality/
Unschool World, another sort of alternate reality
http://sandradodd.com/unschoolworld
Potential problems with Reality TV and unschoolers
http://sandradodd.com/problems/realityshows
Today's links are to quite philosophical ideas—even the one on cursive writing ('joined up' writing, in the UK). Anyone thinking these things are off topic and can't help them unschool can go here instead: http://sandradodd.com/beginning, or check elsewhere around this announcements blog for something that does look fun.
"Some problems with respect"—newly on my site, but written in 2010.
http://sandradodd.com/respect/problems
Earning social points, and how they can be spent
http://sandradodd.com/points
Older page on cursive writing, never announced here, some photos were lost but thanks to The Wayback Machine, I could grab and replace them as they used to be.
http://sandradodd.com/cursive