Following yoga, I just got back from tidying up the studio for Open Studios at the Art Explosion. Left a note, biz cards and a mailing list sheet.

It feels weird to do that and not participate, but then again, it's this weekend and so is my due-date. That said right now I feel like I could do some of it... but it's also nice not to have to ( Read more... )

yoinked from fulguritus Thank you!

An LA TIMES article questioning the fact that the current parenting norm is not to let kids out of our sight- that people are outraged by a parent promoting a kid doing something independently ( Read more... )

Why we're failing in Math and Science... otherwise known as the sadness of no more chemistry sets ( Read more... )

Early Episodes of Sesame St. Determined unsuitable for "today's child".Wow ( Read more... )

-or their potential lack of common sense.

A 17 year old builds a breeder reactor in the back of his suburban home.

soulrefraction shared the article he posts here with me a few days ago. soulrefraction started school in Nuclear engineering and had a feeling that some of the numbers were deliberately wrong- enough to flag someone trying maybe, but so it won't actually work ( ( Read more... )

Top Teacher Shown the Door After Showing “Baghdad ER”

Here we go again with this sort of thing:

Award winning art teacher fired over field trip to museum (a kid complained to their parents about a nude sculpture).

other article says that people moved into the district for her art program. Grrr.

Other teachers sacked for making kids think:

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I sent the previous article to my dad and he grumped at me for getting flack for being so critical. And he was. It pushed me but it left me feeling like I could never do anything good enough. There' more to this.

As I've said before, one of my main takeaways from teaching gymnastics was this:

keep the praise/crit ratio at least 3/1. I know that ( Read more... )

I am in much agreement with this article (thank you whittles. I think it is perhaps part of the secret to why my gym kids made me a favorite even though I was more critical than any of the other teachers, and part of why I feel like I coaxed them into so much confidence and self evaluation ( Read more... )

So one of the good questions I got asked recently was "If you died tomorrow, what would you regret not sharing or leaving for others?"The first thing that came to mind was teaching massage. Especially since Sensei died. As it turns out, another person who learned massage from Sensei is in the Bay area and I didn't even know it. I'm hoping that I ( Read more... )

Yay. I had a great day of skiing. I think the best part was getting my mom off the bunny slopes and up to the top of the mountain. Before I was born my dad took her up to the top almost as soon as she started to skii and pressured her to go down something and freaked her out a whole lot and she hadn't been on anything until a few years ago. Her ( Read more... )