Thursday, August 31, 2017

Poised and confident

I expected my children to learn, and they did. What surprised me was their ease at dealing with people of all ages, from younger children to adults. They made eye contact and shook hands from an early age. They're poised and confident.


SandraDodd.com/interviews/momlogic2010
the photo is from 2007, and is a link

P.S. I know kids are different; the statement above was about my kids.
Kids who aren't so at ease can benefit from being at home without pressure.
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Wednesday, August 30, 2017

More power

Help your children to be powerful. Let them have all of their power and some of yours.



SandraDodd.com/eating/diets

(quote is from page 171 or 194 of The Big Book of Unschooling)
photo by Janine

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Slow change

Living means changing. Appreciate the good things, however plain and simple.

Don't rush, don't stop, but live.
SandraDodd.com/parentschange
photo by Sandra Dodd

Monday, August 28, 2017

Learning, relationships, integrity


Everything counts.

If school and grades form "the object" and life is the field, many things "don't count."

Living without school or schoolishness, everything counts.

In learning, in relationships, concerning integrity—everything counts.


The Luminous Mind, Episode 197, Sandra Dodd, “Everything Counts”

photo by Gail Higgins
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Sunday, August 27, 2017

Making the world better

"The longer I live the more convinced I am that the way children are parented/raised has the greatest potential for changing the world. Raising whole, healthy people makes the world better."
—Brie Jontry



SandraDodd.com/respect
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Saturday, August 26, 2017

Learning, peace and kindness

Learning, peace and kindness make marriages better.


(and friendships, and partnerships with children)

SandraDodd.com/partners/
photo by Karen James, of a painting by Karen James

Friday, August 25, 2017

More "more," less in between

"Everything in moderation… no. Not everything. Not very many things at all. Bad things at the minimum, good things to the maximum, and hopefully not much at all sitting sadly in the in-between."
SandraDodd.com/abundance
photo by Colleen Prieto
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