I've made index pages for Pam Sorooshian and Deb Lewis. I already had them for a few other people. They're listed on the main Radical Unschooling page (/unschooling) but the new pages are easy to remember:
/pamsorooshian
/deblewis
I've tried to make these URLs obvious and guessable, but sometimes I can't remember them myself, so I *LOVE* google.
I have a fund raising page and would rather have cash this season than a drawer with 100 cassette tapes in it, so if you know someone who would like to listen to me talk about unschooling or parenting while they drive around or pull weeds or whatever, here:
/tapes
and I also have morning glory seeds. And the morning glory seeds have writing with them (kinda like Thinking Sticks have writing), and I'm sending a couple of ounces, not just a few seeds. This is not a puny amount. (Same page.)
So... I've added begging to the site, and am being published in two magazines in the next couple of months. That's the news.
New link on one of the anti-spanking pages, to an Attachment Parenting site's list of articles exposing the Ezzo's (the husband, at least). Teaching people to abuse babies isn't the only personality fault. He's also a liar about his education and his money, and has been thrown out of three churches. That will help those dealing with friends or relatives who are swatting infants on this goof's claim that God said to.
At the bottom of
/s/proof
Beautiful account of current feelings on teen unschoolers (particularly her son Julian) by Kathryn Baptista:
/teen/people
http:/sandradodd.com/sooner
BALANCING IN THE MIDDLE GROUND
Not new; new on my site, with a couple of comments and a quote from Zen Lessons.
/balance
Now linked from the Unschooling Peace page:
/unschoolingpeace
NEW QUOTES added to the John Holt page
/johnholt
January 1, 2005
CHOICES
Pam Sorooshian, short and clear, on the value of giving children choices.
/choice
(and already including another bit by Vicky Bennigan, written the same day in
another place, about children who are angry about being controlled taking it
out on other children)
RULES vs. PRINCIPLES
New idea in a box at the bottom of the page on rules vs. principles
"Self-regulation," some preliminary thoughts. (Send me yours if you want!)
/rules
MR. ED
Addition of Shelby's Mr. Ed moment to the Gilligan's Island page.
/t/gilligan
BETTER TOOLS THAN SPANKING
On "Why Spank?" an addition of a "better tools" bit Joyce wrote, up top (and
some reformatting below; not much)
/s/why
STREWING
Small addition to the "Strewing" section, so small that I'm quoting it, but
it's here:
/strew/how
How Much Strewing? And Can there be Too Little?
The goal is a satisfyingly-immersed-in-life present - not finding ways to
sort of trick a kid into learning something.
Pam Sorooshian
I think that "strewing" is a way of creating a rich environment from which
children can freely pick and choose. It is *not* a way of slyly constructing a
curriculum that includes all the requisite subjects, like math, science,
literature, history, etc. Some folks hear the word "strew" and think, "oh, okay, so
I can strew that science book or math book or classic." That, in my mind, is
not what strewing is about; that's replacing a canned curriculum with a
manipulative one.
Danielle Conger
... and it's linked from the main strewing page,
/strewing
Recent UPDATES:
December 17, 2004
New links and format on Rules vs. Principles page:
/rules
New page/link on what wanting rules looks like:
/rulebound
Ben Lovejoy on Rules vs. Principles
/benrules
Two new TV links/pages, the second and sixth links on the TV page
/tv
and they are:
What Can Happen if little kids watch TV all day? Will they ever learn?)
/t/whatif
and
Television, Children and Making Decisions Rationally
/t/vijay
November 2004
An online newsletter called Growing Together has used "Moving a Puddle" in their current newsletter. I hesitate to even call such things newsletters, they're so elaborate, and it can't be printed out to put in my file, but if you want to go and see the article on a different page, with new intro and credits, it's here, down the middle column. And there's a link to my unschooling page down the righthand column.
October 8, 2004
ON EDUCATION AND ITS "PRODUCTS"
Joyce Fetteroll has written something inspiring concerning education,
and I've linked it several places, but it lives here:
/joyce/products
October 8, 2004
MAKING PEACE AMONG KIDS
Addition of comments page:
/peace/fightingcomments
PAM SOROOSHIAN
Pam, on Roya's excitement about math:
/m/teens
"SEEING IT"
A comments page has been added to the article on what unschooling does and doesn't look like,
because of something very clear that Mary Ellen (NelleBelle) wrote:
/seeingitcomments
VIDEO GAME REVOLUTION
Links to information on that PBS video, and to an interactive history of games here:
/games/page
More ALISON MCKEE
links added (quotes were added last time)
/unschool/definition
LEARNING TO SEE DIFFERENTLY
/peace/newview
JOY AND SWEETNESS
"Getting it." Accounts of the magic moments.
/unschool/gettingit
KELLY LOVEJOY, added to "teach" vs. "learn"
/wordswords
Also, I changed the top of the page to reflect the fact that more than my one article is down there.
It's a very minor thing, but I love the name of that page.
I already had one named "words" and so I just doubled it, but it looks more like
word swords
to me, and I like that.
NEW on Rules vs. Principles FROM JOYCE!
Third down at
/rules
but I'll just share it here, as a bonus. Joyce's writing is so clear and sweet:
Someone wrote: "Rules, principles, is there really a difference?"
Joyce Fetteroll responded:
"Someone said tht principles can be summed up in one word. Rules can't. I'm not sure if I can always do that but it's a helpful distinction to getsomeone started on figuring out the difference.
"For instance a principle might be kindness. A rule is "Don't hit your
sister." If there's a principle of treating each other kindly then there
isn't a need for a rule that says "Don't hit." "Don't hit," only says "Don't
hit." Kids do pick up that it doesn't say don't pinch, don't poke until she
cries, don't pull hair ... But as a child is helped to find better (kinder)
tools to use to get what they want and their understanding of kindness grows
it's understood that anything that hurts someone is unkind so there isn't a
need to spell out every hurtful thing that kids aren't allowed to do."
Joyce
October 1, 2004
SHAKESPEARE
The Shakespeare page has been moved, amended, and updated some.
/shakespeare
(and don't forget the other Shakespeare info under strewing:
/strew/shakespeare)
COLLEGE
College Considerations for Unschoolers, some links, the beginnings of a collection:
/college
ALLISON McKEE
Allison McKee quotes and link added to unschooling definitions page:
/unschool/definition
LYLE, on THINKING STICKS
Comments on Thinking Sticks. There's a new one by Lyle, but more than that, all the others which I hadn't noticed were set to be white on white are now showing. When I moved that page from another site, I botched it somehow.
/thinkingstickscomments
ANNE'S WORDS ON A T-SHIRT
Link on Anne Ohman's page to t-shirts with the same saying Anne has on her bumper stickers:
http://www.cafepress.com/freerangegoods
T-shirts by Annie (Cortland & Caedan's mom), profits to go toward scholarship fund of the Live and Learn conference.
JOYCE, ON CHORES
Joyce, new bit on chores:
/chore/shift
MODELING JOY
Kelly Lovejoy and Deb Lewis did a little duet on modeling joy:
/chore/tales
AN ODE TO VIDEO GAMES
A poem is added to the section on video game, linked in the "other testimonials section," and is here:
/games/poem
(Main page link is at the bottom of that.)
JOHN HOLT QUOTES
I've added quotes to the John Holt page and hope soon to have book reviews from an unschooling point of view. I'll let this list know when those are up.
/johnholt
August 24, 2004
KIRBY TURNS EIGHTEEN
This article appeared in the new, first issue of Life Free, Learn Free, and
there's a link to their website at the bottom of the article. Though I was
willing to wait until their next issue came out to post it, the editor say "go
ahead!" And Kirby walked taller and stepped more lightly after he read it.
Then I read it aloud to Holly with him in the room, and I stopped at the part
about what he had said he might want to be, and asked him if he minded me
sharing that, and he said no, not at all.
/teen/kirby
PLAYING
My last HEM column, July/August 2004 issue, on the value of playfulness.
/playing
JOYCE FETTEROLL
I have more and better Joyce Fetteroll links
/joycefetteroll
Those of you who read at unschooling.com know Joyce's voice, but for others,
I just want to say that Joyce explains some thing more brightly and clearly
than anyone else. She goes logically to the facts, and she stuns me sometimes!
Marty, Holly and I will get to stay with Joyce and her family a few days
after the Live and Learn Conference in Boston, next week. We met when she came
here, and got to spend some time together in South Carolina, too.
ELVIS
Not new, but new at this address,
"How Elvis Appears to Unschoolers"
/dot/elvis
OTHER UNSCHOOLING LISTS
Pam Sorooshian has created a list called UnschoolingStories, and there will
be a link here:
/lists/other
And the last topic, so if you don't need this part, you can quit reading now!
Thanks for your support and interest!
SPANKING
A page has been added. It's an account of teens gathered without adults,
when a discussion of spanking comes up. I really like it.
/s/backstage
Ren, bottom of this page. Not new writing, but new to the site:
/s/why
Added some links that used to be elsewhere.
/s/stop
A new Christian-focus, anti-spanking site was added at the bottom of two
pages:
/s/pressure
/s/proof
June 27, 2004
"Many cheerful facts about the... hypotenuse"
JUBILATION AND TRIANGULATION
Music, etymology and math, sort of,
/dot/hypotenuse
ANNE OHMAN
I've had a couple of Anne's things online and now I have a bit more!
/anneohman
MARY GOLD
Actually, Bugmom wrote this, but it gets a MaryGold link, as it's commentary on "If You Give a Kid a Nintendo..." (linked back from the comments, in case someone here hasn't read it lately!)
/games/nintendogoldcomments.html
(there are older comments there too, but this newer one, up top, is really fun)
ADDITION TO NON-SPANKING
List of anti-spanking and pro-spanking links just added at the bottom of this page:
/s/proof
May 16, 2004
HOLLY AND THE BIBLE
First appeared in Acorns, a Pagan newsletter, under the title "A Fascination with Religion," but the original title was "Holly and the Bible." It's part of an intended "connect the dots" collection.
/dot/hollybible
HEM COLUMN BEFORE LAST
The current column is called "Jubilation and Triangulation." It's not online yet. The new one online (as of May 16) is "The School in my Head."
/schoolinmyhead
MORE JOYCE
I found some more Joyce Fetteroll gems I had saved, and though they come up under various topics, I'm keeping a Joyce-links page too
/joyce
I'll try to add links to the especially Joycelike stuff that's within other topics. I wish I always had, but I think it will work to use google and look for Joyce Fetteroll or jfetteroll if you want to read more before I have more links.
DISPOSABLE CHECKLISTS FOR UNSCHOOLERS
This article has been at HEM's site for a couple of years, but I've duplicated it on my own (with a link to theirs too) so that I could add commentary that came later. Also, in part, so that I can put the link in posts at unschooling.com. Long links don't work for me, but short ones do.
/checklists
"I CAN READ, YOU KNOW"
Pam Laricchia wrote a great article on her daughter becoming a fluent and enthusiastic reader. It is in the current issue of Life Learning Magazine, and is now here, with appropriate citations and links, AND with an update section!
/r/alyssa
TALES OF KIDS HELPING VOLUNTARILY
Various tellers, lots of kids. New collection.
/chore/tales
FAVORITE FALLACIES / DIRE PREDICTIONS
"If I let them..." has some new things, and one BIG one, to which I linked Holly's candid commentary.
/strew/ifilet
That's the newsworthy news. There are always little bits here and there.
I'm sponsoring a page (or someday more maybe) of information for some workshops Ren Allen is doing on creativity, so if that gets fancier I'll remind you it's there. At the moment it just has the links she plans to distribute at a workshop. They'll get paper, but the address for the more useful clickable version which is here:
/ren/creativity
April 9, 2004
TEEN ANGST
/teen/angst
and some new format and rearrangement at the teen page:
/teens
"GETTING IT"
/unschool/gettingit
A short, clear bit on the moment an 18 yr. veteran unschooler "got it."
I hope to add more moments to that as I come across them. If any of you want
to send me something, that would be great. [email protected]
MORE SHARED ACTIVITIES
Added something at the bottom of
/truckcomments
listing other things I've put out to do while conversing (in response to a
question).
It's like strewing, but it serves the double purpose of providing shared
activities over which people tend to sit and talk.
TELEVISION DEBATE
I found and edited a good TV debate from 2001. It features Ren telling us
she thinks limiting TV is a good thing. And it will as a link to some info on
her later change of heart.
/t/debate
MAIN UNSCHOOLING PAGE
I'm still trying to tweak the main page so things are top-level, but I can't
do it for everything. I realized the intervew Emily Subler did years ago was
buried two levels down, so I've linked it directly from the top paragraph.
/unschooling
Does anyone here know where Emily is these days? I think she got divorced
maybe, and if so she might've changed her name. I'd like to contact her if
anyone can help me to that. Found her! (She found me, from this, rather.) Thanks.
March 16, 2004
"What Marty Really Needed"
My January/February Home Education column, about Marty and territorial New
Mexico, is now here:
/martymap
The current issue is out, with an article called "The School in my Head," and
the May/June article is called "Jubilation and Triangulation." It's about
connections, and the week of the hypotenuse. I'll have the former online in
May, and the latter online in July, and there you see the pattern.
SLEEP
New link on the Parenting issues page
/life
about Sleeping, Bedtimes, Late Nights and other scary issues
/sleeping
LIMITS AND "HAVE TO"
Joyce on logic and how to decide whether to limit things.
/joyce/logic
This is where a couple of other things tied together, and the set of links at
the bottom of that page creates a whole new topic, though I'm not sure what
it is. Something like "How important is it?" on a deep level. Some things
ARE vitally important (logic), and others aren't (arbitrary controls, for
example).
and it's linked to and from this:
"HAVE TO"? Thinking about "have to," for unschooling parents
/unschool/haveto
(used to be on the same page with teach/learn, at sandradodd.com/wordswords
but I'm splitting that out)
a link from that:
/unschool/sheran
Typical Unschooling Day
HEM column from May/June 2003
I thought it was online already. It's mostly about a chart we have of the
U.S. Presidents.
/day/presidents
I'll link it from typical days and on the articles page.
Sharing and Generosity
/eating/sharing
Sylvia Toyama and a tale of boys being generous with their special snacks.
Two new links on Typical Days
/typical
one top right, one bottom left
February 27, 2004
I'm really enjoying putzing with these pages. I told someone the other day whose good bit I had lifted that it was like making a quilt with other people's donated triangles.
READING:
/r/adults
A bit about how homeschooling parents themselves learned to read. If you remember clearly how you learned and want to write something for that, please send it to me at [email protected] [email protected]
SEEING UNSCHOOLING:
/peace/newview
This is too esoteric for most people, probably. It's about surrendering to natural learning and then being transformed into new material which is not aversely affected by formal education. Maybe it's too metaphysical even for me. Ha! (Not really, but it's hard to summarize in three lines. It's somewhat about that near-taboo subject of "advanced unschooling.")
Clearer and related:
Stages of Unschooling
/unschool/stages
That's a Kelly Lovejoy article.
I'm collecting quotes from unschoolers to illustrate the stages she laid out, and will link those to-be-new pages at the end of Kelly's article, or somewhere on that page.
LYLE!
I love Lyle's courage. He wrote pretty pointedly about Yu-Gi-Oh card obsession and a mother's duty:
/lyle/games
and that has a link to another Lyle-page.
FOOD
There's a new page in the food and eating area:
/eating/balance
and new bits up top at
/eating/sweets
The main page for those is
/food
MATH:
/m/money
Sylvia Toyama, on money and concepts.
I have some other things saved somewhere on my mac I can add eventually, but other money stories are hereby solicited!
TAPES:
"Hard Thinking Made Easy" has been finished. The second side was blank (my fault; oops). I finished it at home from my notes, and was able to go all the way to the end, so it will be longer and maybe better. Kelly Lovejoy is selling them at this address:
http://www.schoolsoutsupport.org/resources.html
Two others will be available sometime, and I'll let you know.
There's one there of me and Pam Sorooshian. The plan was for us to talk about each other's children, and we did, but it was my idea based on one BIG discovery I made about Roxana, and I forgot completely to tell that story. So I'm writing it up, probably or maybe for an article in Paths of Learning magazine, and I hope Pam and I can do in writing a little better than what we did in person (which wasn't too shabby! I've heard the tape).
SPEAKING:
UPDATED May 2004
Four definite, one tentative, two tentative dates; altogether five scheduled speaking engagements:
Las Vegas NV, June 18-19, 2004 [with Holly]
Boston, August 27-29, 2004 [Marty will be on a panel, too]
Chicago, September 11, 2004
MAYBE North Carolina, at a camp with a dining hall, festival-style unschooling event
MAYBE in May 2005, but it's talking-stage-only at this point. If it happens, I'll be there.
DEFINITELY speaking in Florida at Ren's Beach Party
MAYBE it's in early October 2005, but might be later than that
Although it's not going to be a convention in the regular sense, I'm going to speak at some point with my three children and maybe Keith too! We expect to have the whole family there. Ren's planning to get a hotel on the beach, in Pensacola. There will be fun workshops for kids, but not much speechifying. Swimming opportunities (beach and hotel pool), and hanging out with other families, wild singalong music sessions, those are planned.
Details will be at
/speaking
and will be expanded as I know more.
Sandra
2/27/04
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