Many are recognized as being different, while many don’t recognize that each and every one is different. Recognition shouldn’t be a pointed finger. It should be a hug. We each and all are different. Difference is life, recognizing itself. Many times a day. Have a hug. I recognize you!
didactics
鉂ｏ笍
all the little things you do are done for love.
don鈥檛 doubt it. shout about it.
shout about the things you do for love.
(it鈥檚 about the little things)
[馃挆]
When one offers a request for respect
(reasonable)
one seems to hear a demand for compliance
(white)
everything changes
My hut has a dirt floor, basically,
(as I stopped running
the vacuum
at some point in recent time).
Role Development in Children
A couple of principles I see play out in my environments that connect my experience with my learning are verbal play and large motor play. We learn, in early childhood development circles, the importance of babble鈥揺mergent non-structured sound production, to a child’s language and musical development. Children need to have the space to try out…
馃崿
An autistic person is a person that is like a unique confection,
When placed on the tongue, it elicits a strong response to some flavor that you might be averse to,
But as that initial response dissipates, underneath there is a curious combination of flavors that you hadn鈥檛 considered before, and you鈥檙e not so sure how you feel about,
And if you continue to feel about it, all the flavors dissolve into the honey of the center. The deepest delicatest honiest of honey.
back to school
What we should be asking of our administrators and educators as our children return to school:
note to parents:
there are lots of things to recognize in the busy world, and as we age, it鈥檚 natural that we鈥檒l recognize more things. It鈥檚 just the way of things. Not everyone remembers this.
But if you grew up with grandparents, who nurtured you the way grandparents do, by making space for you to just be who you are, by being less busy, because they recognize themselves in you, you鈥檒l recognize that if your children don鈥檛 grow up with grandparents, maybe it鈥檚 a good idea to nurture them a little more like grandparents do, by making space for them to be just who they are, and a little less like parents do, busy making sure that every detail鈥檚 taken care of, and managing their schedules, schedules that manage to reign in all their impulses, their beautiful human impulses to respond to their world in strange and beautiful ways.
Grandparents recognize strange and beautiful things and ways, simply because they鈥檝e had time to recognize things and ways, and recognize themselves in things and ways, and make space for them. They鈥檝e resolved something that allows them to see beauty in the strangest ways and strangeness in the most beautiful things.
They recognize themselves in you (remember, they were parents too).
enlightenment requires a certain cognitive load
Treat the difficult people among us gently.
Every day, they are processing our projections.
They are not trying to be difficult鈥搕hey are just working with the operating system they were born with.
Making peace with the world involves a certain cognitive load, as the brain struggles to create new pathways to connect with and resolve reality.
continue reading enlightenment requires a certain cognitive load