"Children do not need to be made to learn about the world, or shown how. They want to, and they know how." -John Holt
Doesn't she kinda look like her namesake? It's the eyes...
Since Peter, our other bunny, thinks he's a goat and is completely free-range, we thought we could use an indoor bunny to help get us through the winter. Simone is completely, upside-down, back and forth, over-the-moon excited about this new velvety fur ball.
Caden is smitten as well and is not so good at taking turns to hold her. He doesn't even want anyone else to pet her when he's got her. Charming little squirt.
Luckily Gabriel is patient enough with both of them. Though that speaks more to his lesser degree of interest in mammals than his sibling tolerance level.
Now for the facts: Suri is an eight week old, "broken blue", mini rex rabbit. That means she is deliriously soft (therapeutically so!), has spots, will grow to a maximum of 4 1/2 pounds and is pretty darn cute too. We got her from a
breeder in Milford.
Got the bunny bug yet?
"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
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