At lunch today Meredith told me the following:
“I can’t wait until I am grown up and you are dead so I can have your purse”
October, 2005
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Oct 05
her first sentence!
And what a cute little two-word sentence it was. Lydia said, “hug bear”
“hug bear” – can you get any cuter?
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Oct 05
a post to an email loop I’m on
Something someone posted to an email loop I am on. This is from a Newsweek article, “The Mind of an Inventor” – not a homeschooling journal:
“Are inventors born, or are they made? Danny Hillis, who can’t
remember a time when he wasn’t trying to make mind-blowing stuff,
comes at the question, as usual, from an unexpected angle: potential
inventors are UN-MADE.’In some sense, every kid is inventive,’ he
says. Without encouragement, a child’s gleeful penchant for
experimentation becomes endangered.’Kids invent things all the time
until they get to school and adults tell them they shouldn’t be
wasting their time doing silly stuff,’ says Bran Ferren, Hillis’
partner at Applied Minds….”
that reminds me of the percentage of great people…leaders, noble peace prize winners, etc., etc., etc., that were homeschooled. Its high. A great deal of great minds, great people, great leaders, were educated at home…where their curiousity was nutured. Where they weren’t told, “you can’t learn about physics right now, we cover earth science in this grade”.