Posted in Visual Spatial Learners, recordkeeping on Aug 8th, 2008 2 Comments »
I have been trying to think through my blogging plans for this year and since this is my spot for thinking things through, I decided to give it a try.
Daniel Siegel says in the book The Developing Mind that the left brain is responsible for making sense out of things — making experience flow as […]
Posted in Thinking about Learning, Living and learning on Jul 19th, 2008 Comments Off
Someone on a list that I am on linked to Alfie Kohn’s “Five Reasons to Stop Saying, “Good Job.“
It is an interesting read. There is a book I read called “When Slow is Fast Enough” that describes very convincingly the way that praise and positive talk is used to manipulate and control small […]
Posted in Therapy, special needs, Plans and Ideas, Journal on May 19th, 2008 2 Comments »
If there are any speech-language pathologists who read this blog, please know I am by no means attacking the profession. I just am mentioning this because I always seem to be writing negatively in this area. Aidan’s speech therapist is conscientious and seems to know her field well. […]
Posted in Links, Thinking about Learning on Apr 24th, 2008 1 Comment »
I liked this gestalt homeschooling post that Patience at Knitting the Wind shared from her old blog. Especially this part:
Rose has in her mind all the bits of information, but in a way that makes one great story. She is also being trained at a very gentle, almost unconscious, level to see […]
Posted in Visual Spatial Learners on Apr 11th, 2008 2 Comments »
I did one of these personality tests a while back at my other blog but Cindy at Apple Stars had a Multiple Intelligence graph on hers so here is my complete one : ).
Interesting! On my other blog I mentioned that on some tests I come out with the Feeling side higher […]
Posted in Visual Spatial Learners on Jan 5th, 2008 2 Comments »
This is the last section of the notes I took for the Right Brained Learners in a Left Brained World book. I don’t remember, to be honest, why it is called “troubleshooting”, but it looks like the notes are to do with tutoring or helping a right brained child at home. […]
Posted in Visual Spatial Learners on Jan 3rd, 2008 2 Comments »
Here are the ground rules for raising a right brained child, according to this great book, Right Brained Children in a Left Brained World — it was geared towards ADD kids and my kids don’t tend to be classically ADD but they do fit into the RBL category in several ways.
These are drafts from about […]
Posted in Visual Spatial Learners on Dec 30th, 2007 3 Comments »
I took these notes a year or so ago when I was learning about Right Brained Learners. As one myself, I think the most helpful tips for me have been the speed-reading to get the big picture, and the idea of visualizing as I read. As to minimizing distractions, […]
Posted in Thinking about Learning on Dec 8th, 2007 4 Comments »
Kevin, my husband, has gotten into model railroad building. Because the landscape he’s building takes up a floor space of 6 by 9, the enthusiasm has definitely put its footprint on our family life. Add in plenty of reading aloud from hobby magazines, DVD “how to”s, fascinating little boxes the UPS […]
Posted in Thinking about Learning, Books on Nov 25th, 2007 5 Comments »
At the Real Learning board, a mom with young children asked what older homeschooling moms would do differently if they could it over again.
Really, I have few categorical regrets about what I did or did not do. Yes, I made plenty of mistakes — but mistakes can be fruitful. I learned […]
