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Watching this boy work skillfully is beautiful.
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What could be better than building, in the sand, near the water, improving something, honing a skill and having a product that garners respect and admiration?

It’s not easy to find ways to chunk up tasks to align with kids abilities and encourage their growth.

Kids want to help. They want to learn and they want to challenge themselves.

I’m listening to Temple Grandin’s book Visual Thinking and learning about alternative ways peoples minds assimilate information and archive memories. She makes a lot of recommendations regarding bringing Shop Class and Home Economics and other tactile courses back to schools.

Grandin mourns the wasted talent in the US she ascribes to lack of tailored learning opportunities that help kids play to their strengths and learn in ways suited to how their brains work.

I have incredible appreciation for people with spatial reasoning skills, dexterity, physical strength, attention to details and adaptive problem solving.

Have you ever tried to tile a shower? It’s really challenging to align everything, minimize material waste and the number of cuts. It’s hard to work in confined spaces. It’s hard to estimate scope and effort and hard to adapt if you find rot in the walls or other damage when you dig in.

One of the greatest challenges I face as a parent is not to crush my daughter’s innate love of learning and productive work.

I wish the US education system did more to support kids in revealing in their own capacity and growing it for the future benefit of themselves and our society.