Recently, the good folks over at University of Venus posted Deconstructing Proverbs. It’s a good read if, like me, you rely on proverbs to get your points across. I felt myself wanting to contribute to the list, so here are three (why stop at one?): You made your bed and now you have to sleep [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Toddlers’
Hello New Day
Posted in Language, Life, Music, Toddlers, Wisdom, tagged Language, Learning, Life, Music, Toddlers on October 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Mr. Messy Meets Higher Education
Posted in Change, Dean Stuff, Higher Education, Learning, Reflection, Toddlers, tagged Change, deanstuff, highereducation, Learning, reflection, Toddlers on October 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Meet Mr. Messy, from a book of the same title: Mr. Messy is a friend of my kid Mac, who for some reason is intrigued by Mr. Messy. We haven’t even read the book (so in fact I don’t know what it’s about), but we have seen his picture and sometimes it looks to Mac [...]
Ritual
Posted in Dog, Life, Toddlers, tagged dog, Life, Toddlers on June 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ritual. adjective \ˈri-chə-wəl, -chəl; ˈrich-wəl\ 1: of or relating to rites or a ritual : ceremonial <a ritual dance> 2: according to religious law <ritual purity> 3: done in accordance with social custom or normal protocol <ritual handshakes> <ritual background checks> Mac (the boy) and Oscar (the dog) have a simple but meaningful ritual. Every [...]
Back To Nature
Posted in Learning, Life, Nature, Toddlers, tagged Learning, Life, nature, Toddlers on May 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Last month’s Spring Into Service events at Marylhurst have had me thinking a lot (more) about the health of our natural environment and how we connect to nature. Robert Michael Pyle’s reading, especially, got my wheels turning, and I decided that one concrete thing I needed to do was get my kid out into the [...]
Installment #15: What My Toddler Has Taught Me About Adult Learning
Posted in Adult Learners, Experience, Learning, Life, Toddlers, tagged adultlearners, experience, Learning, Life, Toddlers, traffic on December 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Mac has a new game, and he plays it all the time. No, I mean All. The. Time! It’s called: Find A Parking Spot It’s also sometimes called: Stuck In Traffic Here is how you play this game. First, you have to find a parking spot for all the cars: Then, all the cars need [...]
Installment #14: What My Toddler Has Taught Me About Adult Learning
Posted in Adult Learners, Learning, Toddlers, tagged adultlearners, Learning, Toddlers on November 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.” ~e.e. cummings Mac likes to ride his bike through puddles. He seeks them out; we go on puddle-hunts. It’s a lot more fun than riding around the puddles, and when he finds a puddle to ride through, he gets happy and excited and scared and tentative and thrilled. He [...]
To Learn To Cook – Or – To Cook To Learn?
Posted in Adult Learners, Cooking, Learning, Toddlers, tagged adultlearners, Cooking, Learning, Toddlers on September 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
(Note to my mother: this post is not for you. We all know you don’t like to cook; I will gladly do it for you. ) Culinate (one of the food sites / blogs that I follow) posted this article: A child’s place is in the kitchen – how cooking advances learning I contend that [...]
Vacations To Learn By
Posted in Cooking, Experience, Food, Learning, Reflection, Stress Relief, Toddlers, Work, tagged Cooking, Learning, Life, reflection, Toddlers, vacation on August 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Around these parts, Summer term is coming to a close (next week!) and Fall term is about a month away. While my work doesn’t end when the term ends (in fact, it usually gets a bit busier), it seems like a good time to take some time off and time away from the office. It’s [...]
Bumps!
Posted in Change, Experience, Friends, Higher Education, Problem Solving, Reflection, Toddlers, Work, tagged Change, experience, friends, highereducation, problemsolving, reflection, Toddlers, Work on July 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Today, PrattleNog features a guest post from Lorrie Ranck. Lorrie and I have been colleagues and friends since 1996, when we both started teaching at a college in the Bay Area that provided each of us several “bumps” in our professional road. Those bumps were likely responsible, in part, for the formation of our close [...]
Our Talismen
Posted in Life, Toddlers, Uncategorized, tagged Life, Toddlers on July 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
See that frog up there? That one riding a bike? That one riding a bike WITHOUT A HELMET MAMA!?!?! This is what my husband posted to his Facebook profile about that frog: This is not a toy. This is not the coveted “froggie rides a bike” toy. No, this is a talisman armed with more [...]
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