Re: Alphabet notes and video
Random alphabet thoughts:
Crazy ABCs by Barenaked Ladies on their kids album (Snack time) is cute. https://youtu.be/2fasxQN42KU?feature=shared
Dr. Suess's ABCs is one of the five year olds favorite
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Katie Robles
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#79053
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Alphabet notes and video
https://sandradodd.com/alphabet
I've just modernized this page, replaced one video code with a newer one, fixed links, added a credit....
There are four videos there and one song (sound recording
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Sandra Dodd
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#79052
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Re: New interview (new this year)
Ah, editing. I should do it better.
I wrote: "There's a photo of me, and one of my grown kids there, too."
One (photo) of (all of) my grown kids there, too.
I would bring the photo here, but I
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Sandra Dodd
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#79051
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New interview (new this year)
https://altomunschooling.dk/sandra-dodd/
Luna Maj Vestergaard?interviewed me by e-mail for a Danish publication.? I really enjoyed the exchange.? There's a photo of me, and one of my grown kids
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Sandra Dodd
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#79050
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$220 due for this group
If we were not a "legacy group" rescued by Groups io (from the fall of yahoogroups a few years back), this group, with this many members, would be much more expensive.
I just got this notice:
" This
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Sandra Dodd
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#79049
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"How to Unschool" (by Linda Wyatt)
One thing led to another, and I came upon something Linda Wyatt wrote in 2012.? Some of you probably saw it then, but I saw it today, and now it's
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Sandra Dodd
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#79048
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13 years of Just Add Light and Stir
Tomorrow is the 13th anniversary of Just Add Light and Stir.
If you are not subscribed to that, and if you ever check e-mail anymore, I hope you will subscribe.
Each day there is some info to think
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Sandra Dodd
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#79047
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Re: Relax
-=-I was really scared of my mom¡¯s disapproval. THAT ancient fear....-=-
Old recordings. Messages in our heads. Everyone has those, but not
everyone KNOWS about them. :-)
Those voices that tell
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Sandra Dodd
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#79046
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Re: Relax
?I love this point.
When it *feels* like I¡¯m ¡°struggling¡± with a decision, or doubt about a course of action, it usually means that there¡¯s a contradiction in my
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Katie French
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#79045
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Re: Relax
There is a whole bunch of 'teachings' which glorify 'struggle' and
'suffering'; a sort of negative judgement towards possibilities of choices
and looking at them openly. Making choices that feel
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dola dasgupta-banerji
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#79044
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Relax
The phrase "to grapple with self" showed up in a??book I'm listening to, read by a reader I like, taking about psychology and Buddhist concepts, and how they can be seen together.? I like the
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Sandra Dodd
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#79043
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Those moments of GETTING IT
I quoted from this page for today's Just Add Light and Stir post.
https://sandradodd.com/gettingit
Because of questions in the "last hurdle" topic, I thought I should bring it up.? For those who
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Sandra Dodd
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#79042
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Re: The last hurdle (one person's last hurdle)
Not at all, Katie.? You talked about how it can and should work well (principles), and how it is working for you, and that IS the purpose of the discussion! :-)
You shared your thoughts about the
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Sandra Dodd
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#79041
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Re: The last hurdle (one person's last hurdle)
Vicki, I'm not sure if this was from the quote or your own words.? I got confused, but this can't be universally true (and it's not solidly clear):
" There are now "cheat sheets" giving tips about
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Sandra Dodd
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#79040
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Re: The last hurdle (one person's last hurdle)
I hope the group won¡¯t mind a response a member currently unschooling young children (oldest is six)¡ªI don¡¯t have years of experience to offer, but some real-time perspective that someone out
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Katie French
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#79039
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Re: The last hurdle (one person's last hurdle)
I agree about the school reform books being too old. Also, men who weren't
parents. Also, all about school, and the alternatives and hopes were
"change the schools."
I read Herndon and Holt and a
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Sandra Dodd
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#79038
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Re: The last hurdle (one person's last hurdle)
¡°I usually recommend is to shift the attention to creating a joyful, loving, cheerful, engaging environment at home based on hobbies, interests and what really excites the children. I also usually
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Julia Norcross
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Re: The last hurdle (one person's last hurdle)
Books like that are sometimes interesting, but as an unschooling mom in
2023, books written over sixty years ago about kids in classrooms totally
different than schools today weren't what ended up
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Katie Robles
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#79036
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Re: The last hurdle (one person's last hurdle)
My memory was tickled and I was moved to find the book I referenced. From
an Amazon review of James Herndon's How To Survive in Your Native Land
I think I was right about Herndon. Not sure if this
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Vicki Dennis
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#79035
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Re: The last hurdle (one person's last hurdle)
It seems interesting to me that this is described as a last hurdle, but wouldn't it be the first hurdle to unschooling?
"I'm talking about the bare minimum of helping them learn the very basics:?
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Katie Robles
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#79034
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