photos by Janine Davies
Showing posts with label festivity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label festivity. Show all posts
Sunday, December 22, 2024
Light (and tractors)
Light returns [to tractors (in Wales)]:
Solstice and midwinter observances are varied, but seem always to involve light!
SandraDodd.com/light
photos by Janine Davies
photos by Janine Davies
Friday, December 13, 2024
The end of struggling
photo by Janine Davies
"the year Kesi asked Santa for a marrying suit ❤️"
Sunday, September 15, 2024
Interesting things
Strew their paths with interesting things. photo by Cathy Koetsier __ |
Saturday, December 23, 2023
Merriment and peace
photo by Janine Davies
Something looks like this:
festivity,
flags,
window,
windowsill
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Thought, emotion and awareness
photo by Lydia Koltai
Monday, October 30, 2023
Don't be schooly or schoolish.
I would hate to even start to imagine how many potential musicians just turned away from the idea of singing or playing instruments because they were pressed to learn music theory and notation at a young age.
They can just learn. That’s what unschooling is about.
Take away the school, the school language and practices and expectations.
And all that’s left is the learning.
Don’t be schooly or schoolish.
Be UN schoolish.
photo by Marty Dodd, of a jack-o-lantern he started, and let squirrels finish
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Help your children glow.
Fireworks, candles and seasonal decorations create glowing moments marking the passing of time. None of them will last, but your memories might.
Help your children glow. See the light in them. Time is passing. Childhood won't last, but your memories might.
photo by Sandra Dodd,
of Devyn's first jack-o-lantern, 2015
Saturday, July 22, 2023
Social obligations
In the absence of a social obligation to eat at least a token amount, let your children choose not to eat if they don't want to. If the purpose of food is the sustenance of the body and the mind, then let that principle override schedules and expectations and traditions, most of the time. Your children will be more willing to eat to be polite if you only press it on rare occasions.
of The Big Book of Unschooling
which recommends SandraDodd.com/eating/humor
photo by Cátia Maciel
Friday, June 30, 2023
Brief and memorable
Sometimes an experience is brief, but memorable. Rather than big lessons, think of small moments that spark thoughts.
Playing with a sparkler is like stirring light into darkness. I like that.
photo by Erika Davis-Pitre
Sunday, December 25, 2022
Trees and toy trains
Be warm, and help light up the world around you.
Every little bit helps.
photo by Shawn Smythe Haunschild
Monday, August 15, 2022
"I do my best to be the best..."
I do my best to be the best mom and unschooler I can be - for myself, for my son and for my husband - with the knowledge that my example might give someone some ideas on how to see and try things a bit differently themselves. I am constantly looking for examples to grow myself. I absolutely love it when I see someone do something that I think I'd like to try. Sometimes it's a sweet gesture or phrase. Sometimes it's a cool project or idea.
photo by Nina Haley
(documenting the way things were, for a while, when her kids were a bit younger, and also a cool pumpkin-patch outing)
Something looks like this:
collection,
festivity,
siblings
Sunday, October 31, 2021
Subscriptions, and gratitude
Dear subscribers:
Thank you for your patience while Vlad is building a mailing program around us. The new format is beautiful and full of links to good things. I'm very grateful to Mr. Gurdiga for his clever and very generous help.
Some days, some of us got doubles, or posts repeated. I'm sorry for the confusion, but glad for the abundance!
I had wanted to quote part of something I wrote about abundance, but found that
1) the whole thing was required for it to make sense,
2) I had posted it before, in 2013, and
3) the original post had comments and links to two things new that day, about abundance and gratitude.
Please enjoy: Gratitude and Abundance
photo by Sandra Dodd
Thank you for your patience while Vlad is building a mailing program around us. The new format is beautiful and full of links to good things. I'm very grateful to Mr. Gurdiga for his clever and very generous help.
Some days, some of us got doubles, or posts repeated. I'm sorry for the confusion, but glad for the abundance!
I had wanted to quote part of something I wrote about abundance, but found that
1) the whole thing was required for it to make sense,
2) I had posted it before, in 2013, and
3) the original post had comments and links to two things new that day, about abundance and gratitude.
Please enjoy: Gratitude and Abundance
Saturday, October 30, 2021
Lighting up the darkness
SandraDodd.com/light
photo by Sarah Dickinson
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Sensational days
Color, texture, scent. Sound. Taste.
Let your days be sensational.
Disposable Checklists for Unschoolers
photo by Janine Davies
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
If you give a sheep a cookie...
This photo is from another year.
It's glorious that his mom got a photo of it. I'm grateful that she let me share it here with all of you. 🎵And glory shone around.🎵 |
photo by Christa McCowan
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Learn Nothing Day starts at midnight
Learn Nothing Day begins circling the world soon, from one midnight to another, from New Zealand through Australia, Singapore and Malaysia, India, Kuwait, Moldova, South Africa, western Europe... a little lull across the Atlantic to Brazil, while the others wake up and see how well they can do at not learning for just one day. A holiday. Un-"School break."
New Art from Rotterdam, 2018
new photos underlaid by Saskia Ruder
click to enlarge
Dear reader:
If you are near the areas listed above and I left you out, let me know.
New Art from Rotterdam, 2018
new photos underlaid by Saskia Ruder
click to enlarge
Dear reader:
If you are near the areas listed above and I left you out, let me know.
Monday, October 28, 2019
Seeing learning
You won't "deprogram" yourself by clinging to school stuff.
Until you see learning where school stuff is not, you won't get unschooling at a gut and soul level.
photo by Janine Davies
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Tuesday, May 14, 2019
A birthday pancake
Birthday breakfast!!! 🎉🎉🎉
"Mama! You made it a 5! AND it's a pancake?! With M&M's???! THANK YOU MAMA!!! This is the best breakfast EVER!"
photo by Roya Dedeaux, of Wyatt's birthday breakfast
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Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Don't be afraid
Some moms are more afraid of the candy than they are of scary ghosts and monsters.
Have a sweet life.
photo by Sandra Dodd
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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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