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Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Stunning desire to learn
Thursday, September 1, 2022
Following happily
Human development and reality tend toward that period of life coming to an end, someday, so appreciate it when it's happening, and be understanding when paths diverge.
photo by Cátia Maciel
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Paths
I like traditional construction, I like stiles over fences or walls, and I like paths. This one is in Montana, and has a bridge over a ditch, to get to a stile over the fence.
There are paths we can explore, and some we can't. There are metaphorical paths, philosophical paths, spiritual paths, and real-earth paths. There are paths in video-games, stories, books, and films. We can only follow a few, but it's fun to look around at others, too, to remember they're there.
Other path posts (images of paths), and some with the term "paths." Have a nice stroll.
photo by Kelly Lovejoy
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Sunday, March 10, 2024
Paths and bridges
I like traditional construction, I like stiles over fences or walls, and I like paths. This one is in Montana, and has a bridge over a ditch, to get to a stile over the fence.
There are paths we can explore, and some we can't. There are metaphorical paths, philosophical paths, spiritual paths, and real-earth paths. There are paths in video-games, stories, books, and films. We can only follow a few, but it's fun to look around at others, too, to remember they're there.
Other path posts (images of paths), and some with the term "paths." Have a nice stroll.
photo by Kelly Lovejoy
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Saturday, March 16, 2019
A path over water
Parent and child, crossing water, smiling. This image, or any one like it, is inspiring. For anyone, of any age, bridges can seem a little magical. |
photo by Ester Siroky
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
New tools
Kristin Burton wrote:
I have for sure felt like unschooling has been like recovery. It hasn't come easy to me. Recovery from using guilt as a tool, using control as a tool. Letting go of expectations of what it means to be a parent and how children should be.
It's ongoing for me, it take lots of thoughtful pauses to remain on the path of unschooling life. But it's seeped in everywhere now, how I treat my husband, how I even treat myself. How I see relationships, food, world issues.
Recovery is about emptying your toolbox of the broken, ineffective tools that have helped you scrape by in life. For me to feel joy in my own self and want joy for others I had to empty that tool box and find new tools. It's been scary and I ve had to take lots of leaps of faith.
The other day my daughter said she needed a hug, and in that embrace she said, "Mom you are like my compass."
That is what recovery feels like for me.
SandraDodd.com/recovery
photo by Sandra Dodd (of someone else's painting)
I have for sure felt like unschooling has been like recovery. It hasn't come easy to me. Recovery from using guilt as a tool, using control as a tool. Letting go of expectations of what it means to be a parent and how children should be.
It's ongoing for me, it take lots of thoughtful pauses to remain on the path of unschooling life. But it's seeped in everywhere now, how I treat my husband, how I even treat myself. How I see relationships, food, world issues.
Recovery is about emptying your toolbox of the broken, ineffective tools that have helped you scrape by in life. For me to feel joy in my own self and want joy for others I had to empty that tool box and find new tools. It's been scary and I ve had to take lots of leaps of faith.
The other day my daughter said she needed a hug, and in that embrace she said, "Mom you are like my compass."
That is what recovery feels like for me.
—Kristin Burton
SandraDodd.com/recovery
photo by Sandra Dodd (of someone else's painting)
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Peace and patience
"I will always remember something Richard Prystowsky said about being a
peaceful parent...something about the way to become a peaceful parent was to be
peaceful. There was no path, you just had to BE peaceful. "It's really that simple. Slow down and make room for peace amongst all the mess and fun and tasks and STUFF. All of that daily stuff is your practice, so make it peaceful and happy and there ya go!" —Ren Allen |
photo by Kirby Dodd
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Around the corner
Sometimes there are deadlines and commitments. This week, for us, a baby shower, and a college graduation. If Keith misses his pain-clinic appointment, he might need to wait weeks.
Much more often, though, life has more options, more leeway. A path or choice might be reconsidered.
Be accepting, if you can, when you can, of surprises. We don't know for sure what is around the corner, no matter how familiar the road is.
photo by Cathy Koetsier
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Saturday, November 19, 2022
Climbing mountains and baking pies
It's human nature to avoid what we feel is a waste of time, energy and resources.
It's also human nature to pour energy into what we find fascinating.
If someone is made to climb a mountain, they'll find the easiest path, and perhaps even cheat.
If someone desires to climb a mountain, they may even make it more difficult—challenging—for themselves if the route doesn't light their fire.
If it were human nature to go the easy route, I wouldn't be sitting here writing out a response! No one would write a novel. No one would climb Mt. Everest. No one would bake a cherry pie from scratch. No one would have kids.
—Joyce Fetteroll
Photo by Sandra Dodd, of Holly Dodd riding a steam train restored and largely operated by volunteers. The easy route would have been for them to stay home and read books and watch movies about trains.
Something looks like this:
Dodd,
mountains,
perspective,
vehicle
Saturday, September 24, 2011
The trail starts to open up
In the middle of something a little longer, about becoming an unschooling parent, Pam Sorooshian wrote: Pam Sorooshian, on SandraDodd.com/lazy/parents
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Overly self-centered people can't do it because it requires a lot of empathy. People with too many personal problems that they haven't addressed in their own lives probably can't do it because they are too distracted by those.People who are too negative or cynical can't do it because they tend to crush interest and joy, not build it up. People who lack curiosity and a certain amount of gusto for life can't really do it.
On the other hand, we grow into it. Turns out that we parents learn, too.
So—when we are making moves, taking steps, in the direction of unschooling, turns out the trail starts to open up in front of us and we get more and more sure-footed as we travel the unschooling path.
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
Like fluff, like play
Compared to school, with unschooling what you see on the outside looks inconsequential to what they'll be doing as adults. It looks like fluff. It looks like play. But as long as they're in a rich environment with parents who are curious about and engaged with life themselves, when kids explore what interests them, they pull in what is important to their right-now selves and create the foundation for their future selves.
—Joyce Fetteroll
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Friday, July 1, 2022
Variable speed
It's okay not to follow every trail you see, and it's fine to look at a photo of a path and use your imagination, without going anywhere.
There will be paths, options, and surprise destinations all along the way.
photo by Ester Siroky
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Learn and be an example
Realize your unschooling life and someone else’s unschooling life won’t look exactly just the same, and that’s because your kids and their kids, your partner and their partner, your house and their house, your interests and their interests… they’re not the same either. But still read, talk, and think about what you are doing, and listen to what others are doing. Learn from the example of people who have been there/done that, and be an example for those who will come after you on the unschooling path.
—Colleen Prieto
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Saturday, July 11, 2020
They learned and learned
Caren Knox wrote:
I undertook learning how to be a good unschooling mom, and in that learning, experienced some of the most powerful personal growth and healing I’d ever seen in myself. I learned how to be vulnerable with and genuinely present for my guys.
They learned — and learned and learned, without having to be subject to someone else’s imposed timeline of when to learn what, without being limited to staying in a building 6-7 hours a day, five days a week, without having to pretend to learn something to pass a test, without having their grades determine their path. They freely explored their interests, utilized their own strengths and perspectives, and learned, and, as adults, continue to learn.
—Caren Knox
photo by Ester Siroky
Monday, January 7, 2019
Ideas, pulled in
Joyce Fetteroll wrote:
Teaching is pouring knowledge over a child. Whether a child takes it in is not in the teacher's power. Which is why teachers punish and reward to make not taking in an idea less pleasant.
Learning is a child pulling in ideas. Those ideas are most full of life when those ideas connect to other ideas the child is fascinated by. It makes no difference if those ideas connect along a particular path. Which is why natural learning looks so chaotic and meandering compared to school.
It makes it hard to create an environment for a child to explore freely and pull in what fascinates them when someone is unschooling through a fog of TEACH.
—Joyce Fetteroll
photo by Amber Ivey
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Something looks like this:
automobile,
figures,
flag,
stuff,
trees
Thursday, September 5, 2019
Different and ever-changing needs
"'Unschooling' bed time and meals is about responding to each child's different and ever-changing needs."
The Holly Blossom quote is from writing newly added to the Bedtime page.
photo by Ester Siroky
—Holly Blossom
The Holly Blossom quote is from writing newly added to the Bedtime page.
photo by Ester Siroky
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Changing focus
"I focussed on making sure that my son's life was better, bigger, more sparkly, and had none of the 'have to's' that my life had." —Jo Isaac |
The path to peace
photo by Jonathan Medina
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Thursday, January 2, 2014
If you eliminate "have to"...
If you eliminate "have to" from your thoughts, it's like driving a nice standard transmission rather than riding in the back of a crowded bus. If you see everything as a conscious choice, suddenly you are where you have chosen to be (or you have a clear path to moving toward where you would rather be). |
photo by Sandra Dodd
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