Category: Education
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Capoeira, Whole Body Learning
My daughter’s homeschool program brings in artists through the Spectra program. Usually they are visual artists, but occasionally there’s something different. Papiba and his Capoeira class is definitely Something Different. The class starts with a little Portuguese lesson, introducing the kids to a few basic words and numbers. Then they stretch, and Papiba introduces more…
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What a little education will do…
I have just finished writing a two-part article for Growing Up in Santa Cruz on non-drug therapies for behavioral problems in kids. It started as a single article, but when faced with the masses of information I compiled, I asked if I could have two! So the first article (March) is about the reasons for…
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Nurturing the Crazy Creative Soul
The kids I have known well…myself, my siblings, and my kids…are wildly, weirdly creative. Though I am a creative person, I also have the soul of the scientist. Whenever anyway says, “This is the way it is,” I think, “Who says so? How did they test that hypothesis?” Today my daughter and I were having…
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A Daily Act of Faith
Today I went to my son’s school to have a meeting with his teacher. It’s his first year at a new school, and the first time he’s been at a school that I haven’t been involved in on at least a weekly basis. So my situation with my kids right now is an exercise in…
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It’s Educational!
I can’t remember when I heard about the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. I’ve been on their mailing list for a number of years, and they are consistently measured and serious in their dedication to pointing out how our children’s lives have been commercialized. As far as I’ve noticed, they don’t make up overblown campaigns…