"Children do not need to be made to learn about the world, or shown how. They want to, and they know how." -John Holt
After a long-feeling weekend and no end in sight to the rain, we headed to Perpetual Motion for an afternoon full of large-motor fun.
Was it the red? Was it the stripes? Was it the wisp of hair that falls over his ears? I don't know but Caden was referred to as a girl at least 10 times... This kid is ALL boy to me.
Tuesday we awoke to another wet morning so we met some friends at The Met. My sanity thanks me as I spent 3.5 hours at Perpetual Motion by myself yesterday and it was enough to drive me batty! The kids were exhausted when we left and slept in the driveway for over an hour through the loudest thunderstorm you ever heard.
"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
After a long-feeling weekend and no end in sight to the rain, we headed to Perpetual Motion for an afternoon full of large-motor fun.
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