2021 update: No one is likely to read all of my site OR Pam Laricchia's (nor listen to all the podcasts).
Even though Joyce Fetteroll's Joyfully Rejoycing is tightly organized and finite, what is burgeoning into thousands of topics is her work on Quora, where she answers parenting and unschooling (and other kinds of) questions from the general public. Her work there has an excellent response and reputation. You won't read it all; don't abandon your children to attempt it.
-=-I'm an extremely fast reader, haha.-=-
Please avoid haha, LOL and “ridiculous” here. They’re the opposite of positive and helpful.
Fast reading is a school thing. What I have on my site is not “information” in a “read the chapter and answer the questions” kind of way. There will never be a test on whether you understand unschooling. No one can test out or challenge up. The only unschooling happens with your child in your family, and he will be the only judge of whether it’s been done well.
If you want to hazard a guess about how many pages there are on my site about unschooling, I could give you a percentage of what you found, but that’s not positive or helpful, either. Most of the “pages” (URLs) would print out four to ten pages, on paper. Very few would fit on one page. This one is one of the longest; my printer interface said 24 pages. I did not hit “print.” Sandra Dodd.com/t/debate
That page is very cool because it has Ren Allen’s original opinion on television, which changed drastically, and she wrote about that change. It’s linked. Ren Allen was very active in discussions for years, and now she’s doing body painting and getting national recognition. In case you didn’t find the Ren Allen pages: SandraDodd.com/renallen
Ren did this make-up on my daughter Holly in late 2013. Ren grew up in a family that didn’t allow her to play with Barbies or to use make-up. She grew up to become a make-up artist and has been flown to other states to do weddings and events.
Clicking the photo will get you to other photos from that set. The photographs are by Keith Dixon.
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The reason I brought up Ren Allen is that one of the longest pages, that wonderful TV debate, is a Ren Link. Even if a person read nothing but what Ren wrote, and what involves Ren, and really read it and thought about it and incorporated some of those ideas, it would take a couple of weeks to *begin* to get it. And Ren's not currently involved anymore. There are many others whose works I collect, each of whom has shared a lifetime of learning, with stories of their children from early childhood through (some of them) adulthood, and how unschooling played out and is still affecting their families.
But people should really read what Deb Lewis has written, and if Joyce didn't have her own site (and Quora, now) she would still be very well represented by things I've saved. SandraDodd.com/deblewis
Joyce Fetteroll: SandraDodd.com/joycefetteroll
Some of the newer writers who are my favorites are here: Colleen Prieto, Karen James and Marta Pires. Their children are all still in single digits, those three above. If people are lucky, they will still be helping unschoolers in ten years.
People whose kids are grown are represented there, with writings over the past ten or twenty years. Pam Sorooshian, Ben Lovejoy, Kelly Lovejoy, Schuyler, Meredith
