# Sandra Dodd

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S3E4 | Unschooling and Food - with Sandra Dodd, Cecilie Conrad and Sue Elvis

Food keeps showing up in parenting and unschooling conversations: Parents ask about sugar, rules, nutrition, fairness, parties, allergies, ethics, and what happens when children want something different from what the family values. Food can become the place where worries about health, control, and …

S3E6 | A Typical Unschooling Day? - with Sandra Dodd, Cecilie Conrad and Sue Elvis

How does a typical day look in an unschooling family’s life? - This is one of the first questions people ask about unschooling. It often carries an unspoken hope for reassurance, structure, or a picture that makes the choice feel understandable. Cecilie Conrad, Sandra Dodd, and Sue Elvis approach t…

S3E7 | Unschooling: Obsessions, Interests, and Letting Them Be - with Sandra Dodd, Cecilie Conrad and Sue Elvis

Intensity, repetition, and long stretches of focus are common in unschooling families. Interests may look narrow, obsessive, or unbalanced when viewed through school-based expectations—patterns that can trigger parental fear. Worries about outcomes, careers, balance, and future security shape how a…

S3E11 | Unschooling - How much time does it take and what does it cost?

The two most common practical questions about unschooling are how much it costs and how much time it takes. Neither has a simple answer. One parent usually stops earning a full income. Some expenses disappear — uniforms, rain gear, processed food, school fees — while others appear: music lessons, s…

S3E10 | Unschooling and Learning Without Reading

Reading dominates how most people think about learning. Schools treat it as the first skill and the primary method. But children learn language, movement, culture, and complex ideas long before they read a word — and many things can never be learned from a book at all. Sandra Dodd, Cecilie Conrad, …

S3E9 | The Efficiency of Unschooling

Schools spend enormous amounts of time on repetition, testing, classroom management, and re-teaching material year after year. Unschooling skips all of that. When a child learns something because they wanted to know it, it stays. There is no surface learning, no forgotten curriculum — just real kno…

S3E8 | Unschooling and the Benefits for Parents

Unschooling is often framed as a choice made for the children, but the changes run deeper than that. Over time, parents find themselves questioning inherited habits, rethinking authority, and arriving at a different relationship with their own values and daily choices. Cecilie Conrad, Sandra Dodd, …

S3E12 | Letting go. Of control. Of perfection. Even of unschooling? (or of the identity of being an unschooling mom)

Letting go runs through every stage of unschooling — from releasing control over what children learn, to accepting that family life changes shape without warning. The last run with all your daughters, the last night in a house you raised your children in, the last time a child needs you to put thei…

Episode 57: What is Unschooling, Part 2: What Unschooling Looks Like

We welcomed Sue Elvis of Stories of an Unschooling Family to discuss Part Two of Hayley’s What is Unschooling? series. It was another rich opportunity to dig deeply into the nuts and bolts of the practical side of unschooling, with concrete examples and shared experiences. We hope you’ll have a lis…

Ep. 65 – How Do Children Learn To Read Without School? with Elizabeth Schroder

How long does it actually take a child to learn to read when they aren't learning to read at school? Reading is one of the areas where homeschool parents can carry the most worry, especially when a child's timeline looks different from what we see in school. Earlier this year, families inside the…