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Saturday, July 19, 2025
Sensible, good and generous
photo by Sarah S.
Monday, June 3, 2024
All directions
Be open to input from all directions.
Be willing to go in different directions, over the years—with your feet, and with your thoughts.
SandraDodd.com/gradualchange
photo by Sandra Dodd, in Winchester
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Be willing to go in different directions, over the years—with your feet, and with your thoughts.
photo by Sandra Dodd, in Winchester
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024
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
Saturday, July 1, 2023
Stepping away from rules
To a question about how to move from rules to principles and choices:
Gradually, without fanfare, be more positive and more supportive of her desires and requests.
Here is an antidote to your no-speed-limits fear. It's called "The Beautiful Park" by Robyn Coburn. It's about people getting off bicycles to walk. I think it could replace your fearful background with something gentle and peaceful.
Read about why, and what others have seen.
Try it a little.
Don't expect her not to think you're crazy at first; wait a while.
Watch her reaction. Feel your own thoughts. Lay your fears out to dry in the air and sunshine.
photo by Cally Brown
Thursday, June 16, 2022
Slowly and sweetly
photo by Karen James
Saturday, May 30, 2020
Hundreds and thousands

Say "yes" hundreds of happy, surprising-to-the-kids times, about whether they can stay up a little later, or have another cookie, or visit the neighbors, or jump off the porch. Hearing "YES!" is a huge thrill to kids who have been told "no" thousands of times.
That advice is about how parent can move gradually toward unschooling,
rather than jump too quickly.
SandraDodd.com/gradualchange
photo by Chelsea Thurman Artisan
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Saturday, February 1, 2020
A few cool things

Knowledge only comes incrementally. Ditto experience.
Do a few cool things today. Build on that tomorrow.
photo by Sarah Elizabeth
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Easier, more fun, more peaceful

With my oldest in particular it took me a long time to switch gears from, "How as the adult can I get them to listen to me?" to "How as the adult, the person with the most resources and the most developed brain, can I make this easier, more fun, more peaceful for everyone?" That shift will make the transitions easier, but it takes time and should be done slowly.
SandraDodd.com/gradualchange.html
photo by Lisa J Haugen
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Step in, play around

Don't let unschooling disturb the peace.
Unschooling can bring more peace, but step in gradually, and play around in it before you go into the deep waters.
Not so new? Here: SandraDodd.com/water
photo by Doug James
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
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
All directions
Be open to input from all directions.
Be willing to go in different directions, over the years—with your feet, and with your thoughts.
SandraDodd.com/gradualchange
photo by Sandra Dodd, in Winchester
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Be willing to go in different directions, over the years—with your feet, and with your thoughts.
photo by Sandra Dodd, in Winchester
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Something looks like this:
furnishing,
instrument,
symbols
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Shifting 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, of
coloring by Holly Dodd, years ago, and
light switch plate by Sandra, years ago
Monday, July 10, 2017
More and more joy
so it's not my best writing, but joy IS what unschooling needs.
SandraDodd.com/gradualchange
photo by Sarah Clark
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Sunday, July 10, 2016
Gradually, without fanfare

Gradually, without fanfare, be more positive and more supportive
of her desires and requests.
SandraDodd.com/gradualchange
photo by Eva Witsel
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
If you've wound them up...
photo by Ruqayya
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Air and sunshine

photo by Janine (click it, and again, for details)
(I'm grateful to Mia Fiore for saying something nice about the quote, and so inspiring me to use it.)
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Step toward...

Tiny changes make big differences.
Step toward what you want and away from what you don't want.
photo by Karen James
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Gradually, climb
Gradually, without fanfare, be more positive and more supportive. |
and about not leaping too far too fast.
photo by Sandra Dodd
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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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Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Calm in confusion

Learn to be content with your own puzzlement, and to nurture the puzzlement around you. It's okay not to have all the answers, but to let the questions confuse you for a while as you move in new directions.
(the quote is not from there, but it's related)
photo by Sandra Dodd
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