image created of photos by thirteen people, all credited at the link above.
Sunday, July 23, 2023
Learn-Nothing-Day Eve
image created of photos by thirteen people, all credited at the link above.
Saturday, July 22, 2023
Social obligations
In the absence of a social obligation to eat at least a token amount, let your children choose not to eat if they don't want to. If the purpose of food is the sustenance of the body and the mind, then let that principle override schedules and expectations and traditions, most of the time. Your children will be more willing to eat to be polite if you only press it on rare occasions.
of The Big Book of Unschooling
which recommends SandraDodd.com/eating/humor
photo by Cátia Maciel
Friday, July 21, 2023
All kinds of learning
"Learning happens all the time. The brain never stops working and it is not possible to divide time up into 'learning periods' versus 'non-learning periods.' Everything that goes on around a person, everything they hear, see, touch, smell, and taste, results in learning of some kind."
photo by Sandra Dodd, in Liverpool
Thursday, July 20, 2023
Good things
Do good things for good reasons. |
SandraDodd.com/betterchoice.html
photo by Sandra Dodd
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Gratitude and respect
photo by Brie Jontry
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Facilitation
What a child notices on her own, or discovers, or figures out, will connect to other things in her that the parent wouldn't have predicted, or known about. That's good!
Connections are personal, and each web of knowledge is of and within that person.
To make it easier for a child to learn—to facilitate her learning—the parent can provide opportunities, materials, tools, and time. Answer questions. Maybe make suggestions, or play with the child, but don't take over, if you can manage to hang back.
You can learn about learning by watching your child learn.
photo by Roya Dedeaux
Monday, July 17, 2023
Lyrical magic...
What will help wonder return to you? Pay closer attention to young children. See what they're seeing. Think about what they're asking. Wonder at what they wonder.
(quote from 279 or 322 of Big Book of Unschooling)
photo by Sarah S.
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