"Children do not need to be made to learn about the world, or shown how. They want to, and they know how." -John Holt
Not to be upstaged by the goats, Caden would like everyone to know what he can do now that's he's 1!
walk 99% of the time
sign "more" and "eat"
say "mama" and "dada"
shake his head 'yes' and 'no'
climb up the ladder to the trampoline
climb down the ladder to the trampoline
eat anything and everything the big kids do
empty the goats grain buckets
play in the goats water
pull every last tissue from a new, full box
turn off my computer while I'm working on it
throw himself all over the couch w/o falling off &
make us laugh all day long
"By nature people are learning animals. Birds fly; fish swim; humans think and learn. Therefore, we do not need to motivate children into learning by wheedling, bribing, or bullying. We do not need to keep picking away at their minds to make sure they are learning. What we need to do - and all we need to do - is to give children as much help and guidance as they need and ask for, listen respectfully when they feel like talking, and then get out of the way. We can trust them to do the rest."
John Holt
"In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it...and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself." -Grace Llewellyn
"What we want to see is the child in pursuit of knowledge, not knowledge in pursuit of the child."
George Bernard Shaw
Real, natural learning is in the living. It's in the observing, the questioning, the examining, the pondering, the analyzing, the watching, the reading, the DO-ing, the living, the breathing, the loving, the JOY. It's in the joy. ~Anne Ohman
"How could youth better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?" -Henry D. Thoreau
Not to be upstaged by the goats, Caden would like everyone to know what he can do now that's he's 1!
3 comments:
Happy Birthday Caden! Love the hairdo! :)
Happy Birthday Caden! Those pictures freaked me out a little :)
Happy birthday! Hey, I didn't know your middle name is Asher. I love that name! - Ariana
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