"Children do not need to be made to learn about the world, or shown how. They want to, and they know how." -John Holt
When you rescue a chick from a child's birthday party and name it Crackhead, after the ignorant guest it came from, the only fitting ending would be the darn thing turning out to be a rooster. Well, this is what a rooster looks like:
Oh and I tried to get rid of the bird when it was still small and cute but everybody and their Craigslisting mother, unsolicitedly told me he was most definitely a she.
This is a she, Poppy our Buttercup, and lays cute little white eggs.
Again, this is a HE. Also known as a rooster or Crackhead or the more kid-friendly alias "Zebedee". He lays nothing and eats our expensive organic food. He has begun crowing more and more frequently and I'm beginning to grow an ulcer just waiting for the neighbors to complain.
Since I am here to educate you today I will take you further down the sexing chickens road. This is a hen's butt:
And this is a roosters butt:
And because I know chickens and their butts aren't so easy on the eyes, I'll send you off with happy images of furry little goats. Ezra in particular, is especially purty.
Even more so when he's eating my pants looking for more carrot treats...
And if that didn't work, how about a roly-poly winter bunny!
Did somebody say carrots?!
"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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