In the spirit of letting kids do art, my child and this sweet little pirate have been doing a lot of Play-Doh this week.

40 minutes ago

#humor
#art
"Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style" from Seat Assignment >> Nina Katchadourian →
This has nothing to do with parenting but is cracking me up. I’m enjoying looking through all the whimsical found art on her site.





2 days ago (1 note)

#parenting
#toddler
#newborn
#new motherhood
#older children
It Gets Better | Brain, Child Magazine →
Love this reassuring, funny, & ultimately tear-inspiring letter from a mother of older children to mothers of younger children.
One day, the children will eat neither pennies nor crayons nor great, gulping handfuls of sand like they have a powerful thirst for sand, sand, only sand. They will no longer choke on lint and disks of hot dog or fall down the stairs, their heads making the exact, sickening, hollow-melon thump that you knew they would make, when you knew they would fall down the stairs. They will still fall out of trees and off of trampolines. They will still scrape their elbows and knees and foreheads, and you will still be called upon to tend to these injuries. And you will be happy to, because they so rarely need you to kneel in front of them any more, to kiss them tenderly, here, and also here.
3 days ago (1 note)

#toddler
#Preschoolers
#preschooler
#education
#homeschooling
#unschooling
#Montessori
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Keeping your toddler busy when working with your preschooler | Racheous | Playful & respectful learning & living, inspired by Montessori.
1 week ago (2 notes)


#unschooling
#Natural Learning
#education
#public education

Unschooling Reflects Current Cognitive Research - Life Learning Magazine Blog →

When schools were created, it was thought that learning was a sequential process that involved structure, uniformity, and memorization, and relied on extrinsic motivation and control – things like praise, rewards, and punishment. Now science knows differently; modern cognitive research is demonstrating that learning is open-ended and spontaneous, and that people – including children – learn best when they are intrinsically motivated (or what researchers Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan refer to as “self-determination”) and can build on their everyday experiences.

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