Re: Will you please help?
M Person the original poster sent this, in some side correspondence, for further help.? If anyone reading has ideas,? please respond! ______________________________________ I am very concerned
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: Will you please help?
-=-I want to continue to encourage him to think and figure? things out. -=- You don't need to encourage him to think.? He's doing it all the time, for being human. I had a thought about mice and
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: Will you please help?
-=-A different example is. I have asked him not to throw food bags off the balcony. The reason is that it attracts ants and rodents. (I have offered to gladly take the bags down if he doesn't want
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: Will you please help?
-=-in my quest to assist my teenage son.-=- "Assist" could be rephrased. I think you want to mold or control or persuade him. That's understandable and can't be avoided. :-) If you phrase it as
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Sandra Dodd
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Will you please help?
I have been fortunate at times to have garnered insights from this group. I am now again hoping to get some guidance once more, in my quest to assist my teenage son. We are fixing up our home,
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M Person
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Re: Typical Days, Socialization
One more thing, new this month: Angela Booth responded by e-mail with something that I will save on my site, too: _________________ Nothing more important than connecting with your own sweetness. It
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: Typical Days, Socialization
https://sandradodd.com/partners/controversy This page was new a few months ago, so still new. :-) I brought it here because? Anna wrote "I ended up choosing keeping the family together, based on some
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Group Moderator
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Re: Typical Days, Socialization
Thank you Sandra, for all the work you¡¯ve done over the years¡ªmountains of it¡ªfor the rest of it. Even though our family didn¡¯t end up unschooling, I read deeply in my son¡¯s early years
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Anna Dondur
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Re: Something or nothing
I recently had a moment that made me think of this post. I was playing Yahtzee for the first time with my 7-year-old, and I went to help him write down his scores and he wrote them all down by himself
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Katie Robles
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Re: Something or nothing
True, and he's working doing computer tech at Honeywell, where his dad worked for many years as a software engineer.? For a long time, though, Kirby was kind of a professional gamer, when he worked
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: Something or nothing
And Kirby is still a computer geek.
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Bernadette Lynn
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Re: Something or nothing
DOH!? The link has been repaired at the Always Learning forum/website. Sorry to anyone who clicked from the e-mail and got a robotic rebuff. :-) The right link to the original:
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Sandra Dodd
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Something or nothing
This was written in 2001. I told the story of the 18s more lightly in an article called "King's X from the Math Monster."? I didn't know "King's X" was a regional kids'-game term, but that's another
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A jewel in this forum
Once a lunatic wrote to me, and we all discussed it in this group.? I did ask if he was insane.? It didn't seem to be the writing of a female, but let me know if you can perceive male or female
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: Teen Depression
I had linked this from my page called Mental Health.? It said Dealing with others' depression? just a few ideas ( https://sandradodd.com/depression.html ) https://sandradodd.com/depression.html That
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: objection to the "school sucks" phrase
In 2022, I quoted that on Just Add Light and Stir. I'm glad I came across it somehow, and spun it back out into the unschooling world. --------------------------- Thursday, February 10, 2022
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: Teen Depression
Saw this and thought of this topic, and of all mothers of teen boys, past present and future.
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: Teen Depression
I really love all the little things Sadie listed. I try to do those with my daughter that has depression and anxiety. You added even more things for me to pay attention to! Long story short, she was
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BRIAN POLIKOWSKY
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Re: Teen Depression
I'm in New Mexico, where a lot of teens drive early¡ªat 15 or 16.? Early compared to some other places. IF the oldest is a driver, and willing to get out, maybe errands would help.? He'd still be
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Sandra Dodd
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Re: Teen Depression
From the anonymous mom who sent the questions in the first place¡ªFEEDBACK, updates and thanks ___________________________________ First of all, thank you all so much for your thoughts and ideas!? I
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Sandra Dodd
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