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( Lipstick in School )

"...[I]f you're not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original. And, by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies this way; we stigmatize mistakes. [my notes: Not just mistakes, but results the ceo didn't like, no matter whether ( Read more... )

Why We Banned Legos, an account from a daycare/before- and after-school-care facility in an affluent Seattle neighborhood about an interesting conundrum of limited resources that arose from their school-age children building a 'Legotown ( Read more... )

For some, [the] task of coming back a thousand or ten thousand times in meditation may seem boring or even of questionable importance. But how many times have we gone away from the reality of our life?perhaps a million or ten million times! If we wish to awaken, we have to find our way back here with our full being, our full attention.In this way, ( Read more... )

Yesterday, older daughter S and I went to the library to sign up for the summer reading program. As usual, the call of the vending area hit her and she asked for her allowance to get some snacks. After she got hers, I got some chips as well. She said, "You got the same snack as me." I corrected her, "You have the same snack as I." Then we ( Read more... )

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/1363713#1363713

And also the Looney Labs Academy

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An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. - Carl ( Read more... )

http://www.pibmug.com/files/map_test.swf

http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/wp-content/themes/179/aschool.html

I finally did something I have been meaning to do for the last 8 or 10 years, basically since starting a family. I am now certified in Adult, Child AND Infant CPR, First Aid, and use of an AED. That last is pretty easy...anybody with 10 minutes of instruction and two brain cells to rub together could use an AED properly. I have little cards in ( Read more... )