Saturday, October 31, 2015

Danger, angles, strewing

 photo PrietoTriangulation.jpegPerhaps people look for or create dangers, in times of peace and plenty.
http://sandradodd.com/danger

New page on seeing things (physically and otherwise) from different angles:
http://sandradodd.com/angles

Strewing, and how to provide without being self-conscious about it, by Deb Rossing years ago
http://sandradodd.com/stringless
I don't know why that was not announced before, but here it is.


Photo by Colleen and Robbie Prieto
of trees reflecting in an upstairs window,
viewed through a skylight

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Morality, choices, misconceptions

 photo kdk_0374.jpgHow Morality Grows, and how unschooling can help
http://sandradodd.com/issues/morality

The one above has been sitting in the queue waiting for touchup. Two others came along that go very well with it. [October 2015 note: These aren't new, but none were announced before; the post sat in the drafts folder for a long time.]

"It Depends"—thoughts on choice making
http://sandradodd.com/depends

Misconceptions about radical unschooling
http://sandradodd.com/misconceptions

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Exploration, mistakes, deprivation

Kirby Dodd 1990 photo KirbyAsleepJan90.jpg"Exploration" was started and just lately finished. It's one long but interesting topic from early 2014, with lots of voices:
http://sandradodd.com/exploration

Addition at the top, to the page on how one might view making parental mistakes:
http://sandradodd.com/mistakes

Not new, never announced before. Collen Prieto, on trauma, toys, hoarding...
http://sandradodd.com/deprivation

Photo of little Kirby Dodd sleeping is a link.

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Proof, math, being with a child

New page, started and forgotten in 2006; found, formatted and expanded September 20, 2015:
http://sandradodd.com/proof

Second half is new, by Karen James, about her son and math at the dentist's office:
http://sandradodd.com/math/found

Karen is writing quite a bit lately, and it's good. I've saved something she wrote about being with her son, and about playing. The photo here goes with that writing.
http://sandradodd.com/karenjames/beingwith


photo by Karen James

Sunday, September 20, 2015

Wonder, Bien mettre en œuvre le unschooling

New page, Karen James: "Open your heart to wonder"
http://sandradodd.com/karenjames/hindsight

New, in French, with subtitled video: Bien mettre en œuvre le unschooling; traduction : Malika Kergoat
http://sandradodd.com/french/doright

That page was already on my site in English and in Portuguese.

The photo, of Kirby and Marty Dodd, is a link.

Friday, September 11, 2015

Don't measure; avoid divorce; unschooling "schools"

New writing, second half of the page, about learning, and not comparing and measuring one's child.
http://sandradodd.com/karenjames/deschooling

Addition of writing by Cass Kotrba, about 3/4 the way down:
http://sandradodd.com/divorce

A collection for future use when people ask if an alternative school is the same as unschooling:
http://sandradodd.com/school/alternative




Photo (a link) by Janine Davies

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Love of videogames, Unseen Futures, Phrases, Read a little (more)

New page on the love of video games (and it probably won't be what you expect)
http://sandradodd.com/videogames/love

Preparing for unseen futures (new page)
http://sandradodd.com/unseenfuture

Quote and image added to the page on phrases to avoid (from a 2013 Just Add Light post)
http://sandradodd.com/phrases

Addition to the "Read a little, try a little..." page, something by Karen James
http://sandradodd.com/readalittle#karen

Sunday, August 16, 2015

Water; "Screentime", Shame & Guilt

Water—lots of kinds of thoughts about water play and water peace and water abundance (new page)
https://sandradodd.com/water

To the recent page on how Roxana Sorooshian used "screens" in graduate school, I have added her mom's summary of the fellowship, grant and scholarships Roxana has been given for her PhD work.
https://sandradodd.com/screentime/roxana

Helpful ideas by Marta Venturini (was Marta Pires) and Pam Sorooshian, partway down the lefthand side:
https://sandradodd.com/mentalhealth

Sunday, August 2, 2015

"Disturbing content," Condemnation (avoiding), why unschool?

On "HOW Unschooled Kids Watch TV"—new, at the bottom, about "disturbing content"
http://sandradodd.com/t/holly

Condemnation—how to avoid it and how to open up the doors to allow for growth and change (new page)
http://sandradodd.com/condemnation

Why do people unschool? (existing page, cleaned up, small additions)
http://sandradodd.com/whyunschool

Saturday, June 27, 2015

"If only...", deschooling, and becoming a better parent

Three new quotes on "if only":
https://sandradodd.com/ifonly

and one link to something new on deschooling, by Karen James:
https://sandradodd.com/karenjames/deschooling

Rearrangement, clean-up, new photo and quote (used once on Just Add Light before this):
https://sandradodd.com/peace/becoming

Friday, June 26, 2015

Introverts and Extroverts and in between

This was added to the bottom of a page on my site, but because I chose to put it at the bottom, I figured it should be at the top somewhere. Here it is. I followed links back to find the artist and that's credited/linked.

If people offer all of those courtesies to EVERY child (partner, friend), they won't need to worry about whether they're extrovert, introvert or a combo!

—Sandra Dodd
comment on that image
on facebook, 6/26/15


art by Becky


Added to the page "What if your child is an introvert?" http://sandradodd.com/introvert

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Spirituality, Words, Logic, Learning

Additions and clean-up; newly added exchange between Janine Davies and Rippy Dusseldorp:
http://sandradodd.com/spirituality

New writing by Alex Polikowsky, lefthand when two-column section starts:
http://sandradodd.com/mindfulofwords

Addition to a Joyce-collection on logical thought for unschoolers, lower left:
http://sandradodd.com/joyce/logic

New page, mostly Karen James' writing:
http://sandradodd.com/karenjames/reallearning