photo by Janine Davies
Friday, June 12, 2015
Attentive and sweet
Be attentive and sweet to your children. That might be one of your best healing tools.
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photo by Janine Davies
photo by Janine Davies
Thursday, June 11, 2015
The peace path
"Unschooling helped us both to really walk the peace path, and not just talk about it." —Janine Davies |
words and photo by Janine
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Light it up
Sometimes, part of a room can light up and glow for a little while. Try to provide that light, when you can. Try to be that light, in a dark moment, when you can be. |
photo by Sandra Dodd
Monday, June 8, 2015
Emotional well-being
Emotional health and emotional well-being are as important, if not more so, as physical health.
—Jenny Cyphers
photo by Janine Davies
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Sunday, June 7, 2015
More tortoise
Step by step is usually more effective than trying to leap across. More tortoise, less hare. —Debbie Regan |
video by Sandra Dodd, May 2008, Alamogordo
with Holly (16) and Sandra speaking, softly, a bit
Saturday, June 6, 2015
Deciphering written language
Only the reader can decipher it.
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Cipher is from the Arabic word for zero, and has been in English for a long, long time. "To cipher," meaning to do arithmetic, is a word even my grandfather used, who was born in 1898 and lived in Texas. But why a "ph" and not an "f"? Because it came through Greek. Some Greek mathematician discovered the idea from Arabic, wrote it down in Greek, and it came to other European languages from that. "Ph" words in English are always from Greek.
To decipher something (like reading) means to figure out the patterns.
A parent cannot decipher words for a child. Only the child can decipher written language. You can help! You can help LOTS of ways. One way would be to gain an interest in the words you use yourself, and stop once in a while to examine one, its history, why it means what it means.
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Friday, June 5, 2015
Their unique needs
It helps unschooling and mindful parenting to be aware of your kids and their unique needs rather than treating them as generic kids with all the worst possible traits. —Joyce Fetteroll |
photo by Colleen Prieto
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