I mean, one minute she is writing better than me, then next there is this obsession. She buys sticker books and then spends ages cutting the stickers out…. She says, “I like the feel.” There is apparently no word of it. It’s to do with the shapes and colours, cutting patiently around the edges! Making…
What was I thinking when I worried…
I have hardly heard from my child for days. She goes into her room and communes with her (it’s now hers), laptop. “Who’d have thought writing was so addictive!” a quote! I was worried: writing, and I am sure there are other posts on me worring about her saying she wants to be a writer…
what happens at when I can’t see
H has been sick and spent a few days watching TV. This just happened to coincide with an interview on Radio New Zealand about how we don’t totally relax. I went with the whole mind-numbing TV thing until I was too restless and started some random projects, so my eyes were off the ball. H…
Modeling
I am doing Masters. As it is about education, I am sharing it with my one student. Firstly, thinking about how we think of ourselves within education. Secondly, thinking about our place as pakeha in a Maori country, how to be tangata tiriti. We listened to the RNZ history podcast together. I bought a beautiful…
Homework
This is the kind of homework I approve of…. Self set showing thought and thinking of their game in the context of the wider world… The child who did this homework has been coming for years. They are charismatic, so very full of amazing ideas, such a leader… They told me they were bullied/teased at…
revisiting
I know that one of my last posts was on revisiting, but I am revisiting revisitng until I get it straight in my head!! I remember ages ago when I worked at the toy library, hearing a parent say to their child, “Don’t get that one you have had it before”. It made me think…
democracy
H just wrote her first submission on a bill that is going before Parliament. The Fast Track bill – which gives 3 men (with an irrelevant set of skills) the power to override decisions of the environmental court… basiclly removes democracy, and means they can mine conservation land among other devistations. She cried when I…
I left Helena at school
Schools are so set up for extroverts. I know that H has to get over a certain part of being shy, but I also know that this takes almost all her effort in most situations. She finds it easier when there is a joint task – if there is a layer of ‘we are all…
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