photo by Janine Davies
Showing posts with label furnishings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label furnishings. Show all posts
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Create and maintain
photo by Janine Davies
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Top of the list
Lori Odhner wrote:
If parents want to give the best to their child, including warm clothes and good health care, an intact family should be at the top of the list.
Many of the maladies that claim marriages are completely curable.
—Lori Odhner
photo by Sandra Dodd, of a bed with mosquito netting, in Queensland
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Friday, September 26, 2014
Unexpected juxtaposition
The connection between humor and learning is well known. Unexpected juxtaposition is the basis of a lot of humor, and even more learning. It can be physical, musical, verbal, mathematical, but basically what it means is that unexpected combinations or outcomes can be funny. There are funny chemistry experiments, plays on words, math tricks, embarrassingly amusing stories from history, and there are parodies of famous pieces or styles of art and music.
SandraDodd.com/playing
La connexion entre l’humour et l’apprentissage est bien connue. Des juxtapositions inattendues sont la base d’un certain humour, et encore plus, de l’apprentissage. Cela peut être physique, musical, verbal, mathématique, mais au fond, ce que cela signifie, c’est que les combinaisons ou les résultats inattendus peuvent être amusants. Il y a des expériences chimiques amusantes, des jeux de mots, des jeux de maths, des textes historiques amusants et embarrassants, et il y a des parodies de pièces célèbres ou de styles artistiques et de musique.
SandraDodd.com/french/playing
photo by Sandra Dodd, of artsiness at Alex Polikowsky's house
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La connexion entre l’humour et l’apprentissage est bien connue. Des juxtapositions inattendues sont la base d’un certain humour, et encore plus, de l’apprentissage. Cela peut être physique, musical, verbal, mathématique, mais au fond, ce que cela signifie, c’est que les combinaisons ou les résultats inattendus peuvent être amusants. Il y a des expériences chimiques amusantes, des jeux de mots, des jeux de maths, des textes historiques amusants et embarrassants, et il y a des parodies de pièces célèbres ou de styles artistiques et de musique.
SandraDodd.com/french/playing
photo by Sandra Dodd, of artsiness at Alex Polikowsky's house
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014
So butter the toast!
"If he wants someone to butter his toast for him, buttering the toast is probably the easiest possible thing to do in that instance."
—Sandra Dodd
photo by Sandra Dodd
Monday, September 15, 2014
A spiritual gift
"I choose to be positive and to take every opportunity as a gift. So serving others becomes a great spiritual endeavor."
—Manuela Jaramillo
photo (a link) by Sandra Dodd
Something looks like this:
display,
furnishings,
lights
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Gratitude for everyday things
Spoons. Flush toilets. Roofs, walls, doors. Paper and lights. Colored markers.
Love. Time.
Thoughts. Ideas.
SandraDodd.com/gratitude/chairs
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Friday, July 18, 2014
Positively open
Everyone has the freedom to be negative. Not everyone has thought of good reasons to be more positive.
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Thursday, March 27, 2014
The most delightful person
"I want to be the most delightful person in the world for my child." —Zanna Rickard |
photo by Sandra Dodd
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Looking forward to thinking back
There is no substitute for being authentically "there" for them—for genuinely trying to help them resolve problems. For putting your relationship with them at the forefront of every interaction, whether it is playing together or working together.
None of us are perfect—we'll all have some regrets. But with my kids 19, 16, and 13, I can now say that I will never say anything like, "I wish I'd let them fight it out more," or "I wish I'd punished them more," or "I wish I'd yelled at them more." I will only ever say that I wish I'd been more patient, more attentive, more calm and accepting of the normal stresses of having young children.
One interaction at a time. Just make the next interaction a relationship-building one. Don't worry about the one AFTER that, until IT becomes "the next one."
—Pam Sorooshian
photo by Sandra Dodd, of a 17th century dog
Something looks like this:
art,
dog,
frame,
furnishings
Sunday, September 1, 2013
Ponder the wonder
Get interested in things yourself. Not interested in your child getting educated, but in learning for yourself. Pursue an interest you've always wanted to but never had time for. Be curious about life around you. Look things up to satisfy your own curiosity. Or just ponder the wonder of it all. Ask questions you don't know the answers to. "Why are there beautiful colors beneath the green in leaves?" "Why did they build the bridge here rather than over there?" "Why is there suddenly more traffic on my road than there used to be?"
SandraDodd.com/curiosity
photo by Colleen Prieto
Monday, July 29, 2013
Learning in the wild
Unfortunately we learned in school that learning is locked up in books and reading is the only way to get to it. It's not. It's free. We're surrounded by it. We just need to relearn how to recognize it in its wild state."
—Joyce Fetteroll
photo by Colleen Prieto
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Saturday, July 13, 2013
Changing gears
Deschooling is like changing gears. Go slowly. Go deliberately. SandraDodd.com/gradualchange Don't goof around. Don't stall. SandraDodd.com/doit How can both be true? The clutch and the gas. |
photo by Sandra Dodd, recently
coloring by Holly Dodd, years ago
light switch plate by Sandra, years ago
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Saturday, February 2, 2013
Lighter and brighter
(The quote is not from there, but it's a good page.)
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Something looks like this:
display,
furnishings,
lights
Friday, October 19, 2012
Buffet in hell
of The Big Book of Unschooling
which recommends SandraDodd.com/eating/humor
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Sunday, September 30, 2012
Enjoy your child's interests!
Pam Sorooshian wrote:
Instead of trying to figure out what a child is getting out of anything, take it on faith that their interest indicates that, without a doubt, there is something of value in it for them. Support it. Enjoy it. Expand it. Connect it to other things. Pursue it. Look for ways to explore it more. Take great pleasure in it!"
—Pam Sorooshian
about Disney Princesses and any other interest
about Disney Princesses and any other interest
photo by Sandra Dodd (not a good photo; sorry) of Disney Princess seats so that girls in Holland can take their dolls in "baby seats" on their bicycles (click it to enlarge, or click here for more photos of the bike shop)
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Normal for unschoolers
—Alysia Berman
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Something looks like this:
display,
furnishings,
instrument
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Live in a different way
Someone else's question, and part of my answer:
As much as I read,... I seem to slide right back into schoolish ways. How long does it take to really break that bad habit?
Forever.
If you think of it in negative terms ("bad" and not just "break" but "really break"), you will just sit in that negativity, frustrated, forever. You will feel there had to be a winner (you) or a loser (you) and you will be angry with yourself.
The change you need is to live a different way. Step out of the grumpy dark into the calm decision-making choose-joy light.
SandraDodd.com/change
photo by Sandra Dodd
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As much as I read,... I seem to slide right back into schoolish ways. How long does it take to really break that bad habit?
If you think of it in negative terms ("bad" and not just "break" but "really break"), you will just sit in that negativity, frustrated, forever. You will feel there had to be a winner (you) or a loser (you) and you will be angry with yourself.
The change you need is to live a different way. Step out of the grumpy dark into the calm decision-making choose-joy light.
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Saturday, November 26, 2011
Parenting
Joyce Fetteroll wrote:
Just as we've thrown out school for something better that works, we've thrown out conventional parenting practice for something better than works! And just as throwing out school doesn't mean throwing out learning, throwing out conventional parenting doesn't mean throwing out parenting. We're there *with* our kids, helping them, talking to them about life, helping them solve problems.
—Joyce Fetteroll
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Sunday, November 13, 2011
Randomize Me
One of my favorite things on my page is my random page generator. The art's by my friend Bo, and the coding was lifted from someone else's freely-offered random generator, but I did all the filling in. That was so fun I made one for Joyce's page too. The cool thing about random pages there is that any page links to all the rest.
If you have The Big Book of Unschooling, you can use it as a "ouija book" by turning to a page at random when you have a question. 😊
photo by Sandra Dodd
taken at Bode's, in Abiquiu
(Bo-deez, sounds like—a little general store)
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Getting Better
Don't expect to be perfect, but expect yourself to be improving all the time.
Make the Better Choice
photo by Sandra Dodd
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—Pam Sorooshian
Make the Better Choice
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Something looks like this:
flower,
furnishings,
stuff
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