Notes and links
The day was organized by Rippy Dusseldorp, and the site she created for the event is here: A Day in Leiden with Sandra Dodd
| Links & kinderen die tv kijken by Eva Witsel, in Dutch, about the discussions of the day and some follow-up ideas Eva Witsel is the moderator of the Dutch Radical Unschooling group, Vol Leven |
Good News Network, created by Geri Weiss-Corbley, an unschooling mom (who is still heavily involved there, as are a couple of her now-grown kids).
About other people's fear that home ed families could be hiding abuse...
I started to say on Saturday, when I started talking about why people worry about home ed, because they are concerned about families hiding abuse, that Keith and I had a backup plan. I had asked two younger, single male friends of ours who were in their late teens when Kirby was born, to be their advocates. They agreed that if our kids came to them to ask for help, either to ask us to be kinder, or to report us for abuse or neglect, that they would do that. We told the kids periodically that if they ever felt afraid or unsafe, to talk to Jeff or Paul.When Holly turned 18, I thanked them and released them. The kids hadn't needed them, but I was glad we had a plan.
Just Add Light and Stir, a quote and photo each day
Rippy thinks these two links might reassure some of the people who attended:
/college, accounts of teen and young adults who were unschooled and have attended universitiesI think this one will do some similar good:/understanding, which has links to
Getting It Learning to See Differently
Pam Sorooshian is an economics professor and unschooling mother of three young adults, about the same ages as my own children. Our families have known each other since our youngest were 4 and 5 years old. The article applies to good, video games, and anything else a parent might be inclined to limit artificially and arbitrarily.
Deschooling (and links to other people's deschooling page): /deschooling
How to Screw it Up (what not to do): /screwitup
Multiple Intelligences: /intelligences/
Photos by Michelle van den Bos (click to enlarge):
Thank you for the beautiful tile. .
Photos by Graham Dusseldorp
I have had the tile scanned. If you click here you can see the scan, and also a very close-up image. Thank you for the book with the kind words and the wonderful paper, and for the card, too
To order books locally:
 Sandra Dodd's Big Book of Unschooling |
 Free to Learn: Five Ideas for a Joyful Unschooling Life by Pam Laricchia |
 Moving a Puddle and other essays by Sandra Dodd |
"My recording of Sandra's conference.
Thank you again, to all of you and greetings to Sandra."
To download your own:https://archive.org/details/SandraDoddInLeiden2012Part1To listen to it here: Part 1:
https://archive.org/details/SandraDoddInLeiden2012Part2Part 2:
