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Boredom vs Free Play
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” ~Dorothy Parker Eight-year-old twins Caleb and Ella used to complain of boredom on a daily basis. “There’s nothing to do,” they’d...
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Most Of Us Are Ugly Ducklings
Our early hatching is lauded, our late hatching a reason for worry. We’re expected from our earliest years be like the other ducklings. (Well, better than others but not stuck up about it.) If we keep...
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Poet Seeks Words
Amy Heath. Sojourner, tinker, acrostic poet. Amy Heath is a writer, poet, and artist. The past few years she’s lived a somewhat nomadic life, exploring ways to sustain herself while being true to her...
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Evoking the State of Flow
CC by 2.0 Jonf728’s flickr photostream Flow is “a state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience is so enjoyable that people will continue to do...
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Recognizing Each Child’s Particular Genius
A child’s gifts can be difficult to recognize, perhaps because they tend to unfold in mysterious ways. What we might consider idiosyncrasies or problems may very well indicate a child’s strengths....
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I Heckle, You Heckle, Let’s All Heckle
I just got back from a workshop teaching us how to research injection wells for a citizen’s audit project. It’s boring and difficult. I’m appalled when I look closely at the data. I don’t want to do...
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A New Curse Word
We hear it all the time. Chances are we say it all the time. I swear (hah!) it’s the curse of our era. What’s up with you? Busy How’s work? Busy How are the kids? Busy What was your vacation like?...
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How To Walk Your Talk
Emilian Robert Vicol’s flickr photostream Chances are you’ve never heard of Richard Enty. He’s the executive director of Metro Regional Transit in Akron, Ohio where there are firm safety policies in...
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Feeding Creativity With Constraints
Maybe an unusual assignment will amp up your creativity. Perhaps: ~make a poster of shadows ~write the phone call you wish you could have ~compose the saddest song ~describe your ideal government...
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Pride Goes Before Tiny Bite Marks
I don’t take credit for my children’s many accomplishments. They are their own remarkable people. As a new mother I didn’t have this quite figured out. Yes, I knew that babies arrive on this planet...
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Where Fascination Leads
Born with uniqueness. My oldest was calm and attentive as a baby, except around vacuum cleaners. The machine’s sound made him scream with the sort of primal terror normally associated with death by...
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Respecting A Child’s Urge To Discover
misspenthopesxx.deviantart.com The kids had a bunch of boards, some old nails, a hand saw, and a few hammers. They also had the two most important ingredients, the desire to make something and the...
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How To Grant Wishes
Image:helen-carter.deviantart.com When I was a child an elderly neighbor shared her life-long dream. Lottie Borges had always wanted to get behind the wheel of a semi, start it up, and drive. I got a...
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Don’t Deprive Kids Of Risk
jessicareeder’s flickr photostream I publicly admitted to letting my teen take risks that would make most parents shudder. I’m not talking about the month long backpacking trip my 16-year-old took with...
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Successful Teen Homeschooling: Two Vital Factors
The teenaged years are actually the most rewarding of the homeschooling years. That’s what we’ve found with our four homeschooled children. And that’s what I was told by many of the 110 families I...
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Natural Antidote To Bullying
Wikimedia Commons Children are drawn to challenge themselves. They need to take risks of all kinds—physical, social, emotional, intellectual—in order to grow into mature self-reliance. Where do such...
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