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Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Stunning desire to learn
Thursday, December 1, 2022
Doing real things
That's true whether the child is a toddler, or any age. There are useful things that older people do all through life, that younger people watch, think about, and might eventually try.
photo by Roya Dedeaux
Monday, November 7, 2022
Happier and wiser
photo by Roya Dedeaux
Thursday, October 20, 2022
An unschooling nest
photo by Roya Dedeaux
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
Happy apple trees
photo by Roya Dedeaux
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Thursday, August 11, 2022
Touching, playing, learning
When they feel the touch of parental encouragement and approval, they learn from that, too.
photo by Roya Dedeaux
Thursday, August 4, 2022
A good direction
"The right way"
photo by Roya's sister, Rose
Saturday, July 9, 2022
For now...
See it, love it, be grateful, and then accept the changes, with grace.
photo by Roya Dedeaux
Monday, June 13, 2022
Points for your team
Points can be gained for your partnership, by what you do today, and the way you do it, and the thoughts you have while your child is so near. Contribute to the bank of good memories. Be present, and good.
photo by Roya Dedeaux
Thursday, June 9, 2022
Small changes
Each person knows when she's happier and when she wishes things were a little better. If small changes of attitude can make more happy moments than before, that benefits everyone involved.
photo by Roya Dedeaux
Something looks like this:
frame,
playground,
siblings
Sunday, May 29, 2022
It gets easy (or it can...)
It sounds easy, and it gets easy, but it's not easy at first.
SandraDodd.com/hsc/radical
photo by Roya Dedeaux
Monday, May 23, 2022
Getting it
When people say "I read [whichever] webpage last year, but..." and I say "Read it again," I think they might think I'm accusing them of not having read it, but it's that after using the ideas a while, the description makes lots more sense.
Whatever it is we're learning—crochet patterns, musical notation, using crutches, building a fire, making cookies—hearing instructions (or reading them) makes VERY little sense at first. Later it makes more sense. But after trying it and figuring out some things for ourselves, and then going back and looking at the directions, they come to life, in color, and they make 3-D sense.
SandraDodd.com/gettingit
Read a little, try a little; wait a while, watch
art and photo by Roya Dedeaux
Whatever it is we're learning—crochet patterns, musical notation, using crutches, building a fire, making cookies—hearing instructions (or reading them) makes VERY little sense at first. Later it makes more sense. But after trying it and figuring out some things for ourselves, and then going back and looking at the directions, they come to life, in color, and they make 3-D sense.
SandraDodd.com/gettingit
Read a little, try a little; wait a while, watch
art and photo by Roya Dedeaux
Sunday, May 1, 2022
Smooth it off
photo by Roya Dedeaux
(quote is from page 203-236 of The Big Book of Unschooling)
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Confident, happy and glad
He's confident in his skin, in his mind, and in his being.
He's not afraid of his parents.
He goes to sleep happy and he wakes up glad.
My priorities could have been different.
photo by Roya Dedeaux
Saturday, April 9, 2022
Choices add up
Small moments of peace and calm can add up to contentment. Gratitude and acceptance contribute to satisfaction. Having a warm home isn't an absolute, and it's not magic. It's the accumulation of positive choices that create a nest for humans (and their significant animal others).
photo by Roya Dedeaux
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Invisible and personal
photo by Roya Dedeaux
Friday, February 25, 2022
Depth and breadth
Unschoolers should be offering interesting experiences, ideas, stimulation, music, logic, conversation, images, movement, discovery, beauty, etc. Brain food in abundance. It requires effort. It requires attention to qualitative and quantitative aspects of learning. Depth and breadth—creating a lifestyle in which kids are offered the opportunity to learn a lot about some things and a little about a lot of things.
—Pam Sorooshian
photo by Roya Dedeaux
Sunday, November 21, 2021
Compassion and Understanding
The patience that parents need is more like compassion and understanding. To be "impatient" with a person is a cocktail of frustration and resentment, often involving bad planning on the part of the impatient person.
What will look like patience will probably involve learning about your own child's needs and preferences and finding ways to meet and consider those, along with gaining the decision-making skills to be consciously breathing and considering your best options for a few seconds. That will appear to be, and will eventually become, patience.
What will look like patience will probably involve learning about your own child's needs and preferences and finding ways to meet and consider those, along with gaining the decision-making skills to be consciously breathing and considering your best options for a few seconds. That will appear to be, and will eventually become, patience.
SandraDodd.com/patience
but the quote is from page page 272 or 315 of The Big Book of Unschooling
photo by Roya Dedeaux
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Wednesday, October 6, 2021
See, hear, smell, touch and taste!
The parents will know the child better, and the child will know the parents better. They will be building a partnership based on trust.
photo by Roya Dedeaux
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Thursday, September 2, 2021
No substitute
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 Roya Dedeaux
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Pam's offspring are all in their 30s now, and being kind to Pam's grandchildren.
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