Why there is still value, even when you fail to engage your child during an activity
We completed the Left Brain Craft Brain: Story Time LEGO Challenge. The Wild One chose Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty.
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We completed the Left Brain Craft Brain: Story Time LEGO Challenge. The Wild One chose Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty.
I am an adult—therefore, I am a woman. This is something that really annoys me, but in the past I’ve also been guilty of referring to women as girls. But I’ve made a conscious effort to stop, because language matters. In the video, Mayim Bialik explains why we all need to stop referring to adult females as girls. And she backs it with science (Yay for Science!). The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is the theory that language one uses influences the way…
“Now you look like a boy.” “So, I look like a boy because I have short hair?” “Yep.” My heart sank a little. I’d been chatting with two young sisters about differences for my uni assignment. In my years of working with young children, I’ve learned that conversations need to be organic and that you just have to follow their lead. And thus, how we landed on the subject of the differences between boys and girls, specifically hairstyles. When I…
I’m lying inside a giant box.
No, that’s not some weird metaphor. I am literally lying inside a giant box.
Why?