photo by Tessa Onderwater
Showing posts with label re-run. Show all posts
Showing posts with label re-run. Show all posts
Friday, March 8, 2024
The cool thing is...
photo by Tessa Onderwater
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Nuturance
Let their memories of treats, and of meals, of childhood, and of parents, be warm and comforting.
photo by Elaine Santana
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Friday, January 5, 2024
Environmental factors
In the quote below, "it" could be replaced with
- home
- life
- your nest
- your children's day
- yourself
Make it happy and funny and comfortable and exciting so that they want to be with you. Be sparkly.
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Monday, January 1, 2024
The Museum of Everything
You're like a docent in The Museum of Everything.
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Friday, November 10, 2023
Empower and enliven!
Anything you feel you "have to" do is entrapping and stiffling.
Something you *choose* to do can be empowering and enlivening.
photo by Marty Dodd
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Thursday, October 12, 2023
Open
When I reject something from my life, it closes doors, in my head, and in my soul. I can't make connections there anymore. I have eliminated it from active play. It's not good for unschoolers.
Open and unfold, enlarge and expand.
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Sunday, September 10, 2023
The best things
Most of the best things that have happened, I didn’t foresee. I just can’t bring myself to think that a day spent laughing and smiling and doing things that are enjoyable is bad.
SandraDodd.com/radio
photo by Sandra Dodd
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photo by Sandra Dodd
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Friday, August 18, 2023
What he learns
There's no advantage in looking at what you wish or hope a child will learn. Look at what he learns.
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Sunday, August 13, 2023
Which way?
Picture yourself at a familiar intersection of highways. Which is the best way to go?
People go all of those ways, or there wouldn't be roads. You've probably gone all of those ways yourself, many times. How did you decide?
I pictured the I-40/I-25 intersection, in Albuquerque. It's confusing from the air, so I chose another image, one in Georgia. Maybe someone reading this is in Georgia, and lives near the roads pictured above. But in my case, one goes toward the airport, south of town. One goes north to Santa Fe, and Española, where I grew up. One goes west toward the Rio Grande, and downtown. The other, though, the one that goes east, is the way to my house.
Picture yourself in a familiar situation with your family. Which is the best way to go?
It depends where you want to end up.
SandraDodd.com/choices
People go all of those ways, or there wouldn't be roads. You've probably gone all of those ways yourself, many times. How did you decide?
I pictured the I-40/I-25 intersection, in Albuquerque. It's confusing from the air, so I chose another image, one in Georgia. Maybe someone reading this is in Georgia, and lives near the roads pictured above. But in my case, one goes toward the airport, south of town. One goes north to Santa Fe, and Española, where I grew up. One goes west toward the Rio Grande, and downtown. The other, though, the one that goes east, is the way to my house.
Picture yourself in a familiar situation with your family. Which is the best way to go?
It depends where you want to end up.
Friday, July 21, 2023
All kinds of learning
"Learning happens all the time. The brain never stops working and it is not possible to divide time up into 'learning periods' versus 'non-learning periods.' Everything that goes on around a person, everything they hear, see, touch, smell, and taste, results in learning of some kind."
photo by Sandra Dodd, in Liverpool
Monday, July 3, 2023
Conscious, continuous and mindful
In a partnership, be conscious, continuous and mindful.
It doesn't really do any good to be their partner once a week. If you're mean four times and nice one time, that's not enough.
Conscious, continuous and mindful.
There's a sound file there. It's a good one.
photo by Sandra Dodd
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Food and its purpose
You might have to do away with the idea of a peaceful mealtime for a few years. Maybe re-thinking meals would be the way to go.
I think it helps rather than to live by the idealized traditional model of dinner at 6:00, all at their seats, dinner conversation that could be reported to the media as an ideal mix of news of the day and philosophy, etc, to think of food and its purpose. People need to be nourished physically and it's uncomfortable to go to sleep hungry. THAT is the purpose of evening food, not the appearance of a well-organized dinner.
photo by Sandra Dodd, of one of the former Dodd babies
Saturday, May 27, 2023
Same and different
Parents can help, without telling them what "the answers" are. The parent might not see what the child sees.
photo by Sandra Dodd
Monday, May 22, 2023
True freedom and snake oil
So if someone is selling you "True Freedom" (or snake oil, or the elixir of the fountain of life), have respect for yourself and your family and take a pass on it.
photo by Sandra Dodd (click to enlarge)
"Snake oil" might not be an internationally-known term, so here's this: Snake oil
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Patterns and angles
SandraDodd.com/checklists
photo by Sandra Dodd
Saturday, April 15, 2023
Look and rejoice
How much do you need to own to touch a child gently? How much money do you need to have in order to smile?
Look at what you have rather than what you don't have. Look at what is in the world beyond your family and your neighborhood, and rejoice that your child might be able to go out someday and experience things you've never seen or heard or touched or tasted.
SandraDodd.com/abundance
photo by Sandra Dodd, of fried potatoes
in a pan we earned with grocery store points
before we had children
photo by Sandra Dodd, of fried potatoes
in a pan we earned with grocery store points
before we had children
Friday, April 7, 2023
Don't Be Cruel
photo by Sandra Dodd
(I lifted the title from an Elvis song; if you want to hear it, here y'go, and here's some history: Don't be Cruel.)
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Thoughts
Children's thoughts are their own, but if you're interesting and interested, they might share their thoughts with you.
photo by Jennie Gomes
Saturday, February 18, 2023
To see learning
What we call "deschooling" is about more than school. It's de-tox and recovery from all the ideas that could come between parent and child, or between parent and peace, or that would keep the parent from being able to see learning in all of the fabric of life.
photo by Chrissy Florence
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Keep choosing
photo by Sandra Dodd
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