Joyce Fetteroll, small part of larger writing:
We can view children's needs as inconvenient for us or we can view them as people who need our help doing what they want to do.
—Joyce Fetteroll
photo by Eva Witsel
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Life is richer when you are open to appreciating surprises. |
Alex Polikowsky wrote: Unschooling takes more, more presence, more guidance, more attention, more mindfulness, more connection, more thinking and questioning, more choices and better choices. —Alex Polikowsky |
Think of something. What's on the other side of that? Remember something. What came before that? Imagine something. What could follow? See something. Remember there is more than you can see. |
Beauty can be found in small things. |
"Gentle moments call for a calm mind." —Holly Dodd |
Here and there can be in the same place, when we combine them in the same thought, or image. Connect past and future, near and far, personal and universal. Frolic in your mind. |
The quote is from "Knowing Everything." The title refers to something Kirby asked me when he was little. The rest of the essay is here: SandraDodd.com/zeneverything. The story also appears in the book Moving a Puddle.
photo by Holly Dodd |
The more you know about something, the more you can know, because there are more and more hooks to hang more information on—more dots to connect. |
How will you be, as a parent, and why? What's keeping you from being the way you want to be? |
Beautiful moments of stillness and calm are around us all the time. Sometimes we notice.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, "Weird Al" and Jimmy Lip Sync "The Hamilton Polka" from Niveithika Johnson on Vimeo.
If a child is bored and agitated, she's not learning. If she's happy and smiling and humming and engaged with what she's thinking, seeing, hearing, tasting, touching or smelling, then she's learning.
Look up and smile. |