photo by Cathy Koetsier
Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
Saturday, March 24, 2018
Choice by choice
photo by Cathy Koetsier
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Find the fun
SandraDodd.com/gratitude
photo by Cathy Koetsier
Saturday, February 10, 2018
Trust; it's true
Caren Knox wrote:
Trust is a vital foundation to building an unschooling home. If kids can't trust that what their parents are saying is true, their foundation is shaky, perilous. That affects their ability to learn, and harms the relationship they have with the world (and their parents).
Why bring a negative force into the home?
If you're used to sarcasm and other lying, it might take practice to learn to speak honestly. It can feel vulnerable and risky. It is worth it. You'll soon be able to feel if what you are about to say is true — really true — and you'll develop the ability to stop, breathe, and change what you're saying if needed.
—Caren Knox
photo by Cathy Koetsier
Monday, December 25, 2017
Fully to this moment
Caren Knox, writing about meditation:SandraDodd.com/breathing, or In the moment
photo by Megan Valnes
photo by Megan Valnes
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Trust learning
"Don’t trust children to be right. Trust children to be able to make a guess and then learn from what happens." —Joyce Fetteroll |
photo by Megan Valnes
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Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Childproof world?
Instead of childproofing the world, worldproof your child. |
photo by Chrissy Florence
Sunday, September 25, 2016
Sometimes yes
photo by Sandra Dodd
Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Gratitude
Sometimes it can help to be grateful to have less, fewer, not as much, as might cause us difficulty. Be grateful for having just enough.
photo by Chrissy Florence
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Saturday, January 23, 2016
Joy, gratitude, abundance and peace
Fighting a lack of peace isn't creating more peace.
photo by Chrissy Florence
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Never too late
Where learning is concerned, it's never too late and everything counts. |
photo by Eva Witsel
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Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Think joyfully
—Karen James
photo by Ve Lacerda
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Open your mind and heart
"Every time I opened my mind and heart to something my kids loved or were passionate about, or just enjoyed, I learned more about my kids and my life, and theirs, became richer."
—Alex Polikowsky
photo by Jennie Gomes
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Easy flow
If a parent has too many hangups, too many fears, too many issues, that they don't take out and examine, it will destroy what unschooling could be. People can get really wrapped up in fears and "what if's". Sometimes it consumes a person, a parent, a family. Happy, peaceful, unschooling can't flourish in those conditions. Fear creates blocks. Learning needs easy flow. Easy flow can happen naturally unless a person blocks it.
photo by Chrissy Florence, the day they saw a mom and baby whale
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Saturday, August 22, 2015
Universal connections
Remember that if your “unit study” is the universe, everything will tie in to everything else, so you don’t need to categorize or be methodical to increase your understanding of the world. Each bit is added wherever it sticks, and the more you’ve seen and wondered and discussed, the more places you have inside for new ideas to stick. A joyful attitude is your best tool.
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Monday, February 2, 2015
Exotic whatever
Be open to unexpected art.
Suggestions for Creating Abundance when Funds are Low
photo by Sandra Dodd
Sunday, January 11, 2015
Change for the better
With apologies to male readers... adjust as necessary.
You don't have to change everything. You can't change everything at once anyway. If you start acting consciously and mindfully with a goal in mind (more peaceful, richer environment, more patient, more gentle—whatever direction or combination of principles you want to hold as your guiding lights), you can and will be a better (more conscious, more thoughtful) mother, and a better person.
SandraDodd.com/choices
photo by Sandra Dodd
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I wrote "have to."
Perhaps it was in response to someone having used it in her "yeah but..."
I could have written "You don't have to change everything, yet everything will change."
photo by Sandra Dodd
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I wrote "have to."
Perhaps it was in response to someone having used it in her "yeah but..."
I could have written "You don't have to change everything, yet everything will change."
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
How to be
Unschooling works well when parents are interesting, positive, thoughtful, considerate, generous, passionate, honest, respectful individuals. —Deb Lewis |
photo by Sandra Dodd, of some cows just being
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Don't bother
Pam Sorooshian's description of a talk she plans to give:
Unschoolers don't bother with lesson plans, curriculum, assignments, tests, grades, workbooks, homework, or other academic requirements because we have discovered that children who grow up in a stimulating and enriched environment, surrounded by family and friends who are generally interested and interesting, will learn all kinds of things and repeatedly surprise us with what they know. If children are supported in following their own inclinations, they will build strengths upon strengths and excel in their own ways whether those are academic, artistic, athletic, interpersonal, or whichever direction that particular child develops.
in Phoenix, September 2014.
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Enough, and a little bit more
—Meredith Novak
photo by Colleen Prieto
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Sunday, September 22, 2013
Curiosity
Children are naturally curious. Sometimes an adult who had learned not to learn, or had grown up to be self-conscious about enthusiasm and curiosity, rediscovers the joy of discovery. |
photo by Julie D, of Adam, Huxley and some marmosets
on the Isle of Wight
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