Pam Sorooshian's clear explanation of learning to make better choices:
http://sandradodd.com/betterchoice

Something new on World of Warcraft:
http://sandradodd.com/game/wow

New on the Monkey Platter page: Vampire monkey platter, and Robin
Yaeger's beautiful vegetarian platter:
http://sandradodd.com/eating/monkeyplatter

Merry Christmas!

Sandra

A photo of Holly and the three links are also here:
http://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com/2009/11/trust-success-tv-learning.html

Trusting Kids
Link added on my trust page to something Jenny Cyphers wrote:
http://sandradodd.com/trust

I'm the unschooling representative on a site called "Successful
Homeschooling."
http://www.successful-homeschooling.com/unschooling.html
There's a free e-book comparing methods. It might be of use to some of
you one way or another.

Another new thing on learning from TV
http://sandradodd.com/t/learning

To get to this information in a more colorful form, with a snakes and
ladders illustration, click here and you can ignore the rest of the e-
mail.http://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com/2009/10/snakes-and-ladders-issues.html

Snakes and Ladders
http://sandradodd.com/game/snakesandladders
Some boards have overt child-training themes; some don't.
Two new examples there and worth considering.

When Parents Have Issues
http://sandradodd.com/issues

Another page on curriculum usage has been dusted off and cleared up:
http://sandradodd.com/curriculum
(Thanks to Joyce for a link correction and a clarifying question.)

What is "just semantics"?
http://sandradodd.com/semantics

"Words, words, words." —Hamlet
A  video at right has been added at the bottom of the Shakespeare page:
http://sandradodd.com/shakespeare

Learning from TV, two brief new stories added, top left:
http://sandradodd.com/t/learning

The information below can be seen here, along with photos by Holly, of
Diana's dog Buddha (and one self-portrait-with-dog), taken this week.
http://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com/2009/10/labels-not-being-calm-and-have-to.h\
tml


Another mom has articulated why it helped to stop thinking of her
child as a label, and start to look at the cool things he could do.
http://sandradodd.com/words/without

I put it at the link above, though I considered here:
http://sandradodd.com/labels

Once again I've started two trails. It happens.  :-)

Schuyler Waynforth wrote a post I've put on parenting peacefully
(third down on the left)
http://sandradodd.com/parentingpeacefully
but I also put quotes and links back to it on the pages on breathing,
spanking and moments rather than days:

http://sandradodd.com/breathing
http://sandradodd.com/spanking
http://sandradodd.com/moment

I have cleaned up what might be the most important page on my site.
(Sometimes other pages seem the most important, I know, but this is an
important one.)
http://sandradodd.com/haveto
There were some formatting problems and a few little typos and it's
better now.

On the updates blog there's a photo of the dresser Holly fixed up to
use, a note about her plans for the next year, and also the links below.
http://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com/2009/09/cleanup-in-curriculum-aisle-teens.h\
tml

...The professor and Mary Ann
Here on Curriculum Isle

I've touched up the "Curriculum Page."
Some of the links had failed, and the Italian page hadn't been linked
here.
http://sandradodd.com/unschoolingcurriculum

"My kids are whole and full and so is my life BECAUSE of how we live
it!"
Jenny Cyphers wrote something beautiful about teens' relationships to
parents.
I added the account to the page on "How are they as people" in the
teens section of my site:
http://sandradodd.com/teen/people

http://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com/2009/09/positive-and-negative-feedback.html

I'll just leave this link this time, because there's a photo, and
quotes for and against me and my wonderful/stupid site.

More news is coming soon.  I'm being interviewed, or rather being part
of a discussion on Monday, which will be downloadable after the fact.
I'll send a link to that when I have it.

Sandra

http://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com/2009/08/certificado-de-apoderamiento.html

Chevy on a stick, and these links:

Joanette Aponte Yunqué has translated the Certificate of Empowerment
into Spanish.
http://sandradodd.com/empowerment/certificado
http://sandradodd.com/certificado

The original, with notes and links and Chevy-on-a-Stick:
http://sandradodd.com/empowerment

Same info, but with an image, here:
http://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com/2009/08/socialization-and-more-video-coming\
.html



What about socialization? Finally, a page about that oft-asked question:
http://sandradodd.com/socialization/

The movie is still being finished, but those who contributed to the
startup funding will receive their advance bonus DVDs soon. When the
final movie is done, it will definitely be announced here! And I'm
hoping to get a chance to put the raw interviews up where can see them
at the Good Vibrations Conference in a couple of weeks, too!

At this site you can see the links below, plus a video of me gushing
about the proof copy of the book:
http://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com/2009/08/site-renewed-big-book-nearly-ready-\
to.html

Clean-up on Aisle One! (The main unschooling page has been updated,
the video's changed, the current next conference is up top, some new
quotes...
http://sandradodd.com/unschooling

Pre-orders for the new book are being taken, even for people who
aren't going to the conference. This batch will be mailed the last
week of September.
http://sandradodd.com/bigbook/order

There is  a Holly-self-portrait at the blog-page version of this.
It's all one image.
http://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com/2009/08/spanking-and-lying-and-yelling-not.\
html




Spanking Makes Kids Lie
(and has been known to make parents lie, too)
http://sandradodd.com/s/lying
(an older page, refurbished because it's one of the links in the book)

New piece on "Change," by Shan Burton
http://sandradodd.com/change

Similar accounts to those about the changing effect unschooling has on
lives are at the "getting it" link at the bottom of that page.

http://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com/2009/08/words-italian-curriculum-for.html


The beginnings of a new index page on Words. When I have the art done,
I'll bring that too, but I'm working on a book this week, not on art.
http://SandraDodd.com/words

Melissa Dietrick's curriculum, in Italian
http://sandradodd.com/curriculum/italy
Melissa is living in Italy, and has Italian-speaking children, and has
shared what she created and translated for use there.

Blog post with a photo of the full book cover, plus all that's below.
http://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com/
http://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com/2009/08/mathematik-article-in-german.html

This is a new announcement of something a year old, but that's fine. I
only just knew about it recently.

I had a request to write about mathematics for a German magazine, and
sent it off and didn't hear about it for a while. Apparently the paper
copy went astray, that they sent, and I was waiting patiently. Or
rather I was busily distracted and forgot about it.

http://sandradodd.com/math (upper right)
http://sandradodd.com/math/unerzogen
Those lead to links to the publication's website, and the German
version in PDF. It was translated by Niki Lambrianidou.

I also have the book cover complete, and the book almost so, with help
thusfar from Keith and Holly Dodd, Jill Parmer and Robin Bentley.
Holly has done the cover layout. I took some of the photos, did some
of the hand art, and she did the photoshop magic to make it whole.

Amy Kidwell let me quote her on my yes page, but there wasn't a good
place for her quote where it couldn't get lost, and so this is what
the Yes page looks like now:
http://sandradodd.com/yes

CHATS, and I'll list today's as a sample, but there are two a week,
and could be more if there were enough interest.
The chatroom password is goodidea
and the chatroom itself is
http://SandraDodd.com/room

MONDAY CHAT
also known as "too early Tuesday chat" in some parts of the world, and
as ten-to-midnight-chat in the U.K.

Maybe this time if there aren't pressing needs, I'd like to talk about
the more serious core of unschooling—how it works, and what the
principles are.

Two hours, beginning:

Pacific: 2:00 pm Monday
Mountain: 3:00 pm
Central: 4:00 pm
Eastern: 5:00 pm
England: 10:00 pm Monday

Pune, India: 2:30 am Tuesday

Naranara, NSW: 7:00 am Tuesday

New Zealand: 9:00 am Tuesday

The back cover of the book is finished; Holly made it and sent it to me.
http://sandradodd.blogspot.com/2009/07/holly-sent-back-cover-for-book.html

This has a photo of my kids, dressed up for a wedding, and also all
the notes and links below:
http://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com/2009/07/special-programs-kelly-l-defines.ht\
ml


Being your child's partner even in the face of special education
programs
http://sandradodd.com/special/program

"What exactly is unschooling? I thought it was another name for
homeschooling."
http://sandradodd.com/kellylovejoy/whatisunschooling

Learn Nothing Day has been criticized again.
http://sandradodd.com/learnnothingday/critics
I love when that happens. I didn't mean for it to be a trap for
outsiders. I meant for it to be a fun trap for INsiders!

If any of you see any natural, candid criticism out there of Learn
Nothing Day, please leave a link below or e-mail me. Thanks!
If you'd like to put a link to that page on your blog or site, you can
lift the code with logo here:
http://sandradodd.com/learnnothingday/images

This has a photo of my kids, dressed up for a wedding, and also all
the notes and links below:
http://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com/2009/07/special-programs-kelly-l-defines.ht\
ml


Being your child's partner even in the face of special education
programs
http://sandradodd.com/special/program

"What exactly is unschooling? I thought it was another name for
homeschooling."
http://sandradodd.com/kellylovejoy/whatisunschooling

Learn Nothing Day has been criticized again.
http://sandradodd.com/learnnothingday/critics
I love when that happens. I didn't mean for it to be a trap for
outsiders. I meant for it to be a fun trap for INsiders!

If any of you see any natural, candid criticism out there of Learn
Nothing Day, please leave a link below or e-mail me. Thanks!
If you'd like to put a link to that page on your blog or site, you can
lift the code with logo here:
http://sandradodd.com/learnnothingday/images

If you go here you'll have all the links below and an image of the
cover for the new book, which has a link to that page with more
information and a very sweet first impression note from Pam Sorooshian:
http://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com/2009/07/toddlers-good-no-terminology.html



More on Piaget and what toddlers can't yet learn by Pam Sorooshian:
http://sandradodd.com/piaget
(bottom left)

Alex Polikowsky and the huge manure pit (down at the bottom)
http://sandradodd.com/no
(the bottom of the page, not of the huge manure pit—eeyew)

So I'm workin' on this book, and generally I'm summarizing or quoting
from a page and then putting the page address in case the readers want
to put down the book and go to the website for more information. It
turns out I didn't have a page on particular unschooling terminology.
There's not much of it! But whereas most of the book will be the
website in book form, this page is the book in website form. (One
small part of it, anyway.)
http://sandradodd.com/terminology

To see the same links and notes as below with a photo of  Kirby and
Marty, in Austin, a few days ago:
http://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com/2009/06/piaget-schoolchild-led-typical.html



Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development
http://sandradodd.com/piaget
I made a page from an unschooling point of view; it's worth knowing
but it's not worth making a religion about.

On the page about public school on your own terms, I've added a note
(in a box, halfway down on the right). That article is twelve years
old, in September, and I wanted to note some changes in my awareness.
http://sandradodd.com/schoolchoice

Typical day (though it was at night)
http://sandradodd.com/day/robynnight

Ooops!  This has been sitting in "pending messages" for quite a while... I've
added this note and am sending it out on June 23.

====================

There are some new photos of kids in stores, and a few links at
"Stories of Stores"
http://sandradodd.com/stores

Newly famous places: Pop Culture sites (ties movies and music to
geography, with photos!) has been added to the geography page
http://sandradodd.com/geography
(Joyce Fetteroll sent that link to the Always Learning list)

Katherine Anderson transcribed Holly's little video for adreanalinewho
comes to the chats and is deaf.
http://sandradodd.com/video/holly
Katherine is going to transcribe one or some of the youtube videos of
me, too, so if you have friends who can't see video on their computers
or can't get youtube or who are hard of hearing, links will be on the
videos page to transcripts as they come up.

For the links below and a photo of Keith and Holly at a wedding on
Saturday:
http://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com/2009/06/being-friends-eye-contact-fathers-d\
ay.html
http://aboutunschooling.blogspot.com/ (in case the full version cut off)




Pam Sorooshian, mostly, on whether children need a parent or a friend:
http://sandradodd.com/friend

Some comments on the value and uses of making eye contact:
http://sandradodd.com/eyecontact

On Being a Father, "Father's Day maunders," link, quote and backup
link added to
http://sandradodd.com/dads

Lee Stranahan who, with his wife Lauren, performed the technical
wizardry that made Peaceful Parenting and some of my other talks
available to hear free, has been interviewing me quite a bit, and
Holly some, and plans to interview Broc and Brenna (maybe Gail and
Logan) later this month, and who has personal family experience to
share, is creating a DVD about unschooling but needs starter funding.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/968679247/unschooling-the-movie

That's their daughter, Olivia, in the photo on that page.

Some of the things the Stranahans have already made available to
unschoolers on my site:
http://sandradodd.com/introduction

http://www.sandradodd.com/parentingpeacefully

http://sandradodd.com/video/

Here's more by and about Lee Stranahan:http://leestranahan.com/

Thanks for considering this!

What makes thoughts and and words "clear"? How might "a clear singing
voice" be described to someone who is deaf?
http://sandradodd.com/clarity

Out and about in New York City: a recent day reported
http://sandradodd.com/day/meryl

Fourteen years ago there was a chat. The transcript was available for
a few years after and then time passed. Today it's available here:
http://sandradodd.com/detox