Hah! That title could mean so much, eh?
So I have been planning some road tripping, as well as working to fill up a shared Google calendar so we have lots of plans available this fall and winter, provided our old van can stay running.
Lots going on in Springfield, MA. Really wanting to figure out a way to get us to MakerFaire in NYC in mid September, and trying to brainstorm some cool things to do with Perin for his birthday.
There's also lots of places close enough in the Berkshires, I think - so I am planning to check there next for fodder for our calendar.
Must start getting everyone's IHIPs ready, too. Next year, Perin will need an IHIP - starting to breathe deep lately when I consider how I'll get three quarterlies done four times a year.
Rowan and Keena are sleeping better at night - I wish I was. Might have to swallow my pride and just take the antibiotics. Being sick and/or in pain does not make for a cheerful, helpful, supportive unschooling parent, I've found.
One things that I've been thinking about lately comes from Sandra Dodd's column. Can't remember the exact quote, but the gist of it suggests that bits of trivia, constantly sampled, allows us to eventually build models of our world and its systems. Is that true? Is that a better way to learn most things, by sampling bits and pieces of the world, little nuggets of interesting trivia, and then constructing models? Perhaps that's exactly how we all learn anyway, despite a system that wants us to learn about the world linearly.
So I have been planning some road tripping, as well as working to fill up a shared Google calendar so we have lots of plans available this fall and winter, provided our old van can stay running.
Lots going on in Springfield, MA. Really wanting to figure out a way to get us to MakerFaire in NYC in mid September, and trying to brainstorm some cool things to do with Perin for his birthday.
There's also lots of places close enough in the Berkshires, I think - so I am planning to check there next for fodder for our calendar.
Must start getting everyone's IHIPs ready, too. Next year, Perin will need an IHIP - starting to breathe deep lately when I consider how I'll get three quarterlies done four times a year.
Rowan and Keena are sleeping better at night - I wish I was. Might have to swallow my pride and just take the antibiotics. Being sick and/or in pain does not make for a cheerful, helpful, supportive unschooling parent, I've found.
One things that I've been thinking about lately comes from Sandra Dodd's column. Can't remember the exact quote, but the gist of it suggests that bits of trivia, constantly sampled, allows us to eventually build models of our world and its systems. Is that true? Is that a better way to learn most things, by sampling bits and pieces of the world, little nuggets of interesting trivia, and then constructing models? Perhaps that's exactly how we all learn anyway, despite a system that wants us to learn about the world linearly.
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