"Your role isn't to set up a path for them to follow but to set up the environment for them to explore."
—Joyce Fetteroll
photo by Sandra Dodd
I admire his courage and his writings. ...Because John Holt was SO interested in children, every time he interacted with one, he saw a child interacting with a fascinated adult. THIS is one of the things unschoolers need to remember. When the adult brings boredom, cynicism, criticism and doubt to the table, that's what he'll see and that's how he'll see it, and it will be no fault of the child's whatsoever.
He wasn't married. He didn't have kids. What he learned he learned from other people's kids in classrooms and when visiting in their homes, and he was SO interested in kids that their lives were different just for his being there, so what he saw often was how a child is in the presence of a really interested and interesting adult. That's the part I want to emulate.
automatic doors and scanners and scales and deli ticket machines are and all the different kinds of fish and lobsters andJust live life amazed. π
how many different sounds you can hear when you close your eyes and
the man wearing a polka dot bow tie and
how high up the cereal is stacked (lift her up to get oneπ) and
whether there are more tie shoes or slip ons on the people in the store and
how you can draw pictures on the inside of the glass doors of the freezer after they're opened and they frost over and
whether the different coffee beans and candles and apples smell different and
whether she likes blueberries or raspberries or blackberries better and
how many different kinds of circle cereal there are and
how the different types of potatoes feel and
whether people say Hi when you say Hi to them and
how many different kitties or different types of pets there are on the products in the pet food aisle and
whether the stories in the Weekly World News are true or not (well, maybe for an older kid since at 3 *anything* is possible) π and
whether you recognize the Muzak version of the song playing and....
During a drought, what is lacking?
The recommended answer: rain |
Another recording: Ross Kennedy. Seeing there that Robert Burns wrote it, one more search got me the poem, from 1796.