There is something in the wind, and I think they are called hormones. H is definitely a young woman now. Apart from the physical, where she is a small number of cms shorter than me. They way she talks is changing. She has become authoritative! Opinionated! It’s fascinating. Thank goodness she still says she loves…
Tag: real life
It is getting harder to write these posts
Mainly as my child is getting older. Her learning isn’t as photogenic.. not as subtle, perhaps. Today, we went to the NMIT (Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology). I saw squillions of things I wanted to “do”.. to play with. Big machines you could cut wood or metal with. I saw a room full of silk…
What! We don’t have to do anything?
rather “Please don’t”… Children do not like being incompetent any more than they like being ignorant. They want to learn how to do, and do well, the things they see being done by bigger people around them. This is why they soon find school such a disappointment; they so seldom get a chance to learn…
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…
but wait there’s more..
Look at her, she is helping one of the customers… looking up his booking, showing him the way to his camp site. Map reading! Confident talking!
we played school and it was fun.
Helena is determined to go to high school and to be able to do this we are practicing- this was her idea. I looked up a local school’s bell times and an approximate kind of subject list. The bell times were nothing like what I remembered from all those eons ago when I was at…
the week that was
Monday: it’s a public holiday but H is doing geography- this started as she had to be a detective to work out what country her book The Hardy boys is set in. She worked out the book was old due to word usage “fellows” and “chums” and leaving the girls behind… She is using an…
life changes
We brought a bike. An electric bike built for two… I wish I had done it sooner, when I first knew this sort of bike existed and it wasn’t so expensive. Our plan is to do some bike touring. I thought I could combine this with lots of life schoolish work. Lots of maths…. some…
the election
I am interested in politics and the effect of politics on our lives. I talk politics with others. I am totally open about my politics- why would I have beliefs that I couldn’t be proud of or support? This is H’s 4th general election. I doubt she remembers delivering green party leaflets before we moved…
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