I'm new, I'm afraid, and I'm forgetting to breathe!!!


Ideas and Suggestions

For new unschoolers:

Beginning

Precisely How to Unschool

Checklists

Deschooling

Change

Playing

Strewing

Other Unschooling Sites:

Joyfully Rejoycing Joyce Fetteroll

Living Joyfully Pam Laricchia

Some Local Contacts

If you're having a hard time finding unschoolers near you, there are more ideas here about where and how you might look.

News Articles, Research, Media...

Although this isn't named "unschooling" it's run by unschoolers and so articles posted will be heavily unschooling-related. unchooling.blogspot.com

Conferences

Seeing other unschooling families and hearing speakers sometimes makes the biggest difference for a family. Here are links to conference announcements in the U.S., and where I collect my own speaking appearances: http://speakingsandradodd.blogspot.com

"Read a little, try a little, wait a while, watch."


"My kids might never know how much they owe their fabulous childhood to unschooling.com, and that's the way it should be, but *I'll* be forever grateful!"
[Patti Schmidt, unschooling-dotcom, 5/05/03]

Help is here!

There's even help for remembering to breathe.

Free, fun INTRO TO UNSCHOOLING by Pam Laricchia

DAILY: Just Add Light and Stir
daily blog with a quote, a photo and a ink to cheer or inspire you

This site, SandraDodd.com/unschooling, is my own greatest contribution to the unschooling-help arena, but there are other places you can go.




To see what the daily lives of unschoolers look like, here are some blogs. Each has links to others.

Today was Amazing, Heather Booth

Seeking Nectar, Rippy Dusseldorp

The Bharadwaj Shine, Hema Bharadwaj

Unschooling Supermom, Mary King

Living our Own Lives, Julie

Blog of the Zombie Princess, Ronnie Maier

Living the Unschooling Life, Christine Yablonski

Second to the Right, Mandy Sicard

The Mahogany Way, Darcel Harmon

our joyful life, Kelli Traaseth

Hummingbird Haven, Gail Higgins

Sandra Dodd (Dodd family news)

MANY MORE (lefthand column)

Reassurance

"How to Be a Good Unschooler"
inspiration from Pam Sorooshian

Discussion Lists

UnschoolingBasics
for new unschoolers and those just considering it

AlwaysLearning
for committed unschoolers and John Holt fans

Hearing Voices

Links to many sound files (some interviews, many conference presentations) and a few videos are here: SandraDodd.com/listen

Daily Lives

Typical Days is a collection of all that happened in one day in the lives of various unschooling families.

See the blogs at left, too, which have their own links to other blogs and sites.