photo by Chelsea Thurman
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Friday, July 2, 2021
You could be wrong
Part of deschooling is reviewing how we learned what we know, and how legitimate that knowledge is.
FACT
photo by Chelsea Thurman
photo by Chelsea Thurman
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
In every moment
We learn through all five senses, frequently the sixth, and through connection with each other. We learn from books, from magazines, from movies and TV and You Tube Poop. We learn from Barbies, from guns and swords and Bionicles and Legos. We learn through talking, through watching and asking, or waiting. We learn through cooking, shopping, eating, eliminating. We learn from driving or riding the bus or walking or biking. We learn by listening to music, or playing an instrument or singing or banging a rhythm on the table. We learn through living, whatever life looks like that day, whether it's a trip to Discovery Place and the library or a day of not getting off the couch because we're so hooked by David Tennant as Dr. Who we watch all the episodes on the XBox.
There are as many ways to learn as there are... people. Multiplied by infinite ways to learn. Learning's not an event, it's in every moment.
—Caren Knox
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Thursday, August 15, 2019
Happiness and joy
Happiness and joy will create more happiness and joy. Families and learning and the individuals within the families will be better off!
20 Unschooling Questions: Sandra Dodd from NM, USA
photo by Pushpa Ramachandran
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Sunday, July 14, 2019
Good person, good parent
Being a good unschooling parent involves being a good person, a good parent. Unschooling can't work unless the parent is there, whole and attentive and not screwing it up.
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Friday, May 17, 2019
Calm and open
Unschoolers' support of their children's interests not only creates more peace at the time, and better relationships, but it keeps the world calm and open to them, for their dabbling, curiosity, and exploration.
photo by Sandra Dodd
Monday, August 6, 2018
Leaping and dancing
It's bad to make a religion of unschooling.
It's good to see all the logic and practicality in it, and to incorporate things gradually until the awkward first steps turn to confident strides and then to leaping and dancing in the dark.
Happy Logic
photo by Sandra Dodd
Monday, October 30, 2017
The heart of unschooling
a mom named Tracey wrote:
"I am finding that it is when I can most fully let go of what 'should be' and most fully embrace 'what is' that I glimpse the joy and connection which is the heart of unschooling."
photo by Janine Davies
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Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Again, again!
“No-one is ever likely to read my whole website and I don’t ever need them to. It’s not written to be read from one end to the other any more than a pharmacy is intended for someone to start at one end and eat, drink or inject every substance in the whole room. If you find a page that does help you, guess what? It will help even more if you read it again after a year or two. And if you read it after you’ve been unschooling for five years it will seem that the first time it was a black and white postcard and now it’s a technicolor movie. Because you’ll understand it better and you’ll see the subtlety and the artistry of what people wrote and maybe you’ll wish you’d been able to understand it better sooner.” ~ Sandra Dodd
Changes in Parents (episode of Pam Laricchia's interview podcast)
photo by Sandra Dodd
Saturday, October 7, 2017
Electric guitars, or Egypt
photo by Sandra Dodd, in a pawn shop
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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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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Saturday, August 12, 2017
The expectation of learning
It seems lately that more and more people want to know exactly HOW to unschool, but the answer is not what they expect.
Looking back at these stories, in light of others like them, the best recommendation I can make is to open up to the expectation of learning. It helps if the parent is willing for a conversation to last only fifteen seconds, or to go on for an hour.
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. We’ve found that living busy lives with the expectation that everything is educational has made each morning, afternoon and evening prime learning time.
The "lately" in that quote was in 2002.
The photo is Holly's hand, in August 2017.
photo by Sandra Dodd
Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Explore. Connect.
Unschooling should and can be bigger and better than school.
If it's smaller and quieter than school, more should be done to make life sparkly.
Let one thing lead to another for you. Explore. Not the parent pressing the kid to explore, but the parent exploring and connecting.
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Thursday, April 27, 2017
Sharper tools
Joyce Fetteroll wrote:
The basic idea of unschooling is that we learn what we need by using it. And that's exactly how kids learn to speak English. Toddlers aren't trying to learn English. They're using a tool (English) to get what they want: which might be juice or a hug or picked up to see better. The English tool is more efficient than other tools they've been using: pointing or crying or wishing. And because English is more efficient, they use it more. And because they use it more, the get better at it. Kids learn English (and everything else) as a *side effect* of living and pursuing what they enjoy.
SandraDodd.com/english
photo by Sandra Dodd
The basic idea of unschooling is that we learn what we need by using it. And that's exactly how kids learn to speak English. Toddlers aren't trying to learn English. They're using a tool (English) to get what they want: which might be juice or a hug or picked up to see better. The English tool is more efficient than other tools they've been using: pointing or crying or wishing. And because English is more efficient, they use it more. And because they use it more, the get better at it. Kids learn English (and everything else) as a *side effect* of living and pursuing what they enjoy.
—JoyceFetteroll
SandraDodd.com/english
photo by Sandra Dodd
Friday, December 2, 2016
Twinkling choices
There are all kinds of descriptors each of us could use for our kids. Choose the good ones, the ones that make them twinkle in our eyes. —Jenny Cyphers |
photo by Sandra Dodd
Saturday, September 10, 2016
Questions and curiosity
photo by Sandra Dodd
Saturday, September 3, 2016
Organic learning
photo by Sandra Dodd
Monday, May 9, 2016
Noisy peace
There is a phrase you should break up, in your head: "peace and quiet." Sometimes things seem chaotic that aren't. Sometimes peace can be noisy. Those toys in the photo were making zero noise. |
photo by Sandra Dodd
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Slightly new is new
Change one thing: timing, route, store, choices, order, station, dishes... One change affects other perceptions and connections. |
photo by Sandra Dodd
Monday, February 8, 2016
Makes sense
photo by Susan Gaissert
Thursday, January 28, 2016
This moment
What can I do now to make this moment better? —Eva Witsel |
photo by Sandra Dodd
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