personal learning (was Re: Today the rent was due.)
I love those kinds of stories, mostly because of the children seeing their own learning, and knowing that THEY did that.? Maybe with a game, or a toy, or a little brainstorm about some similarities
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: Today the rent was due.
Two of my kids are in school by their choice, and my ten year old was asked today by a friend what she learned homeschooling.? She told them she learned spelling from the auto-suggest feature in
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Katie Robles
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Today the rent was due.
I've paid the cost of this group, but I invite you to assist me if you're
willing.
https://sandradodd.com/donate
For $220 a year, we have a better deal than we had at Yahoogroups.
It's also better
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Sandra Dodd
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Renee Cabatic, ideas you can use!
I've worked up a page with links to things Renee Cabatic has written, thought up, done, photographed...
Her kids are recently grown up.? Her contributions to the shared pool of unschooling ideas and
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Sandra Dodd
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The Dread Pirate Whatever...
2011, on Always Learning....? ?The comments are what I'm really bringing, and they will be below.
I quoted this, by Jenny Cyphers:
One of the very important aspects of unschooling that is solely
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Sandra Dodd
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When I had teens, and "how they were raised"
Marty was fifteen, when I wrote this.? It was an e-mail to our "old next-door neighbor" (who still lives there now, and Marty lives in the house in the story).? We had rented our older, smaller
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: About this group and other resources
I just came across this.? I'm disputing my own self.
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I've been doing that since 1993, when I started writing about unschooling on a user group. Then AOL, where I hosted chats
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: About this group and other resources
The guidelines about posting to this group are linked on the main page.
https://sandradodd.com/lists/alwayslearningPOSTS.html
I still return posts if they don't follow those, even though the group
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Sandra Dodd
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About this group and other resources
I've been discussing unschooling online for 30 years now. I have some printouts dated 1982, from a user group on "HOME SCHOOLING" that had about 80 participants, mor than half of whom were home
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: Will you please help?
Why a book?
https://www.google.com/search?q=stages+of+development&oq=stages+of+development
There are graphs, charts, and links up top to help you narrow it down by age or stage.
On my own site,
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: Will you please help?
Thank you very much .
Would there be any suggestions for younger years , perhaps age 2 plus ?
Thanks again
Jodie
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jodie aldridge
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Re: Will you please help?
I'll share one more.? It's a recent favourite of mine, again not about teenagers, but there's a chapter on arguing that might interest parents of teens (Chapter 7).? Arguing is a skill that, when
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Karen James
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Re: Will you please help?
The Parent/Teen Breakthrough is very good
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Karen James
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Re: Will you please help?
I loved Behave by Robert M. Sapolosky.? It's not about teenagers, but he does have a chapter on teenagers which was really interesting.? The whole book is interesting.? I have the audible version,
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Karen James
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Re: Will you please help?
For teens, I really loved Teenagers, A Natural
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Jo Isaac
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Re: Will you please help?
Hello
Please could I have a recommendation for a good book to read on human development please ?
I read some when my son was little but would like to refresh for my 2nd child.
Many Thanks
Jodie
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jodie aldridge
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Re: Will you please help?
Karen James wrote: "He's still young. He's still learning. His prefrontal
cortex (the decision making part of his brain) is still developing. At
this stage of his life he is influenced a lot on his
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: Will you please help?
***When I (as well as others)? have an idea or a suggestion, my son gets angry and says its ridiculous, or he will agree, and then do the opposite.***
Maybe don't make so many suggestions.
***Thus,
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Karen James
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Re: Will you please help?
I read with interest your response and the link you sent. I certainly can relate to the road Ethan and you traversed.
With all my words, perhaps i have not been clear. My son has had ideas for many
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M Person
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Re: Will you please help?
Teenagers seem to need to assert their place in the World. Sometimes that
looks like rejection to parents. It's not. Remembering that helped me
navigate those couple of trickier years when Ethan
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Karen James
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