"Children do not need to be made to learn about the world, or shown how. They want to, and they know how." -John Holt
It finally happened and I'm not sure I was ready for it! We discovered the wiggly perpetrator on July 4th and waited patiently for it to fall out a whole month later. Well, Gabriel did anyway... I wanted to yank that thing out a million times! (Hmmm, maybe I was ready for it.)
Anyway, we were at the beach when it decided it could hold on no longer... (thanks for the use of your camera Kelly!)
That night, we put the tooth in his special pirate "tooth treasure" doll and hung him on the wall for the tooth fairy.
I can't be sure, but I believe he got $1.45 or so for the pearly white!
(BTW, that's not a sunburn from the beach, he had a weird rash on his face for a week or so.)
"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
3 comments:
He looks terrible... poor kid. was it itchy?
Not itchy, just red and textured. It went around our circle of friends whatever it was...
$1.45? How positively odd of the tooth fairy... Another milestone!
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