It's rough being in our family
Going grey at 40
I have written about this before , but after broaching the subject on facebook a few weeks ago I've been thinking a lot about the whole colouring your hair deal. On facebook I asked when having natural coloured hair was going to become trendy like other old fashioned things like quilting and growing your veges? I am quite tired of how time consuming colouring my hair is and how expensive it is. A very interesting conversation resulted with a huge variety of opinions. Many of the women said they would be going natural, but of course they aren't gray now (and are my age) so I don't think that really counts. Until you ACTUALLY start going seriously gray/white you can't see how it impacts on the way you look. I think it is different to be almost white (like myself) at age 40 and agreeing in principle to going natural when it happens to you in the future (when you will be a lot older than I am now!). Just quietly, I'll believe it when I see it (let me throw d
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that happens all the time to us - we always have one particular child who will not smile in group / family photos, and will probably pull a weird expression! I have told him I would like to make a whole album for him of his funny faces, I think we have hundreds to put in.
They are SO normal and unique, and obviously equally loved !! ....
Garth
As the mother of five children and a school librarian I thought that you might be interested in this free ebook considering the future of schooling and challenging the status quo.
http://www.squidoo.com/stop-stealing-dreams
It's written from a US perspective but has some good thoughts. Here are some of the quotable quotes from it:
In the connected age, reading and writing remain the two skills that are most likely to pay off with exponential results.
When access to information was limited we needed to load students with facts. Now, when we have no scarcity of facts, or the access to them, we need to load them up with understanding.
The two pillars of a future-proof education: # 1 Teach kids how to lead. # 2 Help them learn to solve interesting problems.
If you read it I'd be interested to know what you think.
I really enjoy reading your blog posts.
All the best with your new job and the changes it has brought to other aspects of your life.
One of your UK readers.
Linda
Really interesting quotes (I haven't got to the ebook yet). At the core of what we do in teacher librarian work in Australia is to give children information literacy skills. That is, the skills to identify the information they need to find and the best way to do that. They are right - more important than teaching facts is teaching how kids to find the RIGHT facts - not some rubbish they googled.
And reading is right at the heart of all that. You need superior reading and thinking skills to discern what is good information - information that will help you problem solve.
Very interesting.