Showing posts with label games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label games. Show all posts

Saturday, November 11, 2023

Expand your world

Jen Keefe wrote:

Getting to know my kids and subsequently all the amazingly cool "nerdy" things I never would have learned about otherwise has expanded my world. Cynicism always shrunk it.
—Jen Keefe

SandraDodd.com/jenInterests
photo by Marin Holmes, in Tokyo

Saturday, October 1, 2022

Activity over worry

"It feels so much better to be doing something active to try to improve life than it did sitting around worrying about it!!"
—Cass Kotrba

SandraDodd.com/doit
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Lively ideas; living language


Without becoming too critical or cynical, maybe consider, with your children sometimes, changes in knowledge (the platypus, Mars, Pluto, leeches, volcanic activity and virgin sacrifice compared to global warming's medicine men; anything smaller than an atom?), or geography ("Four Corners" has been in the wrong place all these years; the U.S.S.R. is still on maps in some public places) or spellings ("plough" or "plow"? wooly or woolly?).

Play lightly with these ideas. There's no advantage to getting huffy or angry about it. Just see it as the reality it is. People learn. People change their minds. Knowledge grows. Evidence is reclassified. Language is alive. People who are alive are changing and learning. You can resist that or you can ride it with gusto.

Fact/Fallacy/Opinion
photo by Sarah S.

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Calm and patience

Jenny Cyphers wrote, in 2014:

It's such a big part of our culture to get it done now, fix it all now, make it happen now, do, do, do, do. Sometimes what life really requires is calm and patience. A very valuable thing to learn in life is to how to take care of ourselves and others during times of stress and times that aren't ideal and wonderful.
—Jenny Cyphers

Moments: Living in moments instead of by whole days
photo by Kinsey Norris
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Sunday, August 21, 2016

Treasure-ish

One country's trash is another country's mysterious antique treasure.
SandraDodd.com/museum
photo by Sandra Dodd

Friday, September 11, 2015

Just discussing life, hanging out...


Nobody kept their kids home for 18 or 20 years just discussing life with them, hanging out, playing games.

We probably wouldn't be either, if it weren't that we're biding time until the clock runs out on compulsory education.

SandraDodd.com/context
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Thursday, August 28, 2014

A wonderful collection

"The unschooling environment I create at home is just a wonderful collection of the best examples I have from the past and the present."
—Rippy Dusseldorp

Deschooling... "Like what?!"
photo by Sandra Dodd, at her own house
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Sunday, July 13, 2014

Learning floods in

shelf with games, figurines, art, cards, plastic pineapple bank, carved boxWhen our schoolish expectations start to dissolve, learning floods in from all directions.
Learning for Fun (interview)
photo by Sandra Dodd