BEGIN TO WEAVE
My family is part of a common-wealth school that we attend once a week as part of our homeschool. I have been helping teach a Shakespeare Scholar class for young teenagers, which includes studying and interpreting the works of Shakespeare, and producing a play at the...
WE SHALL NOT CEASE FROM EXPLORATION
This T.S. Eliot quote reminds me of how I learn now, as an adult. And I remember learning this way as a young child. But there was this long period of time in between where I thought that the only things that could be learned through wonder and adventure and magical...
Girls grew up being told they can be anything. What they heard is that they have to be everything.
Girls grew up being told they could be anything. But what they heard is that they had to be everything. For my generation, the expectations on girls are to be ambitious, smart, pretty, socially active, athletic, kind, and liked by everyone. To succeed in education and...
LEANING IN
This recent homeschooling/life groove we are in is something else. There is love. There is cooperation. There are chores without (tons of) complaint. There is some seriously passionate and explorative learning going on. There is patience with self and with others. And...
MAYBE THEY’RE JUST DROWNING
Imagine you’re standing by the side of a pool and someone is splashing you. It’s annoying, so you look into the water and find that someone is there flailing their arms, to keep from drowning. Would you turn to them and say, “Hey! Quit splashing me!”? No, you would...