by Connect | Jan 1, 2020 | Observe Your Student
The Cycle of Learning → Observe Your Student || The Da Vinci Road When Your Child Isn’t You My grandmother used to say, “the shoemaker's children go barefoot” to express some unfathomable truth. As a child I thought the saying meant, “Daddy...
by Connect | Jan 1, 2020 | Be a Student
The Cycle of Learning → Be a Student || The Da Vinci Road Teach by Learning I remember my mother standing over a boiling cauldron of black walnut juice, hands and bare feet stained dark brown. She was making dye. Not because she needed it, but because she wanted to...
by Connect | Jan 1, 2020 | Observe Your Teacher
The Cycle of Learning → Observe Your Teacher || The Da Vinci Road Getting It There are times when I utterly fail as a teacher. I can't find the words I need to explain the step-by-step means to solving a division problem. I look up to see JudyLucy and David looking at...
by Connect | Jan 1, 2020 | Observe Your Teacher
The Cycle of Learning → Observe Your Teacher || The Da Vinci Road Choosing the Right Teacher I was eleven years old and desperate to learn how to sew. I'd watched my mother at her sewing machine making a few dresses for me and had pestered her for years already to...
by Connect | Jan 1, 2020 | Becoming
The Cycle of Learning → Becoming || The Da Vinci Road I See You At twenty-five years of age I decided I would probably stay single for the rest of my life simply because I had not met any eligible males that interested me beyond the first few conversations.I mentally...
by Connect | Jan 1, 2020 | Becoming
The Cycle of Learning → Becoming || The Da Vinci Road In Contrast We have a Jersey cow. When she comes home to be milked in the evening, we fill her trough with hay and oats and let her calf out of his pen to eat with her. The cow that docilely munched her hay...
by Connect | Jan 1, 2020 | Becoming
The Cycle of Learning → Becoming || The Da Vinci Road Seeing Others Our children may not know what's in style, what movies are coming out, or be at the top of their “class,” but they all know each other's favorite color, song, book, story, and latest...
by Connect | Jan 1, 2020 | Becoming
The Cycle of Learning → Becoming || The Da Vinci Road Rising to the Occasion A few years ago we were visiting my family who still live near the Amish. I went to a neighbor's house to buy cow's milk. It was in the upper-twenties outside and the ground was icy. As I...
by Connect | Jan 1, 2020 | Becoming
The Cycle of Learning → Becoming || The Da Vinci Road Confidence A friend once asked me how to raise children that aren't crippled with shyness or insecurity. It was a good question but one I couldn't answer at the time. No matter how much a child knows or is capable...
by Connect | Jan 1, 2020 | Becoming
The Cycle of Learning → Becoming || The Da Vinci Road Independence A few minutes ago David opened the front door and thrust his head in to ask, “Somebody quick! Please hand me my sketchbook and pencils! Hurry! There's a woodpecker out here in a tree and I need...
