Challenging Assumptions

Learning in the Real World

Children (and maybe adults too) learn best when they are trusted to follow their interests and curiosity, to do it experientially, from real life…

Nov 26 • 

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Life Learning: Process Over Content

Protecting and nurturing the love of learning is more important than teaching facts to be memorized.

Nov 10 • 

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What If?

Some musings on how to create a better world

Nov 2 • 

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October 2025

Children are Born Curious

Let's not school that curiosity out of them.

Oct 21 • 

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Creativity as Defiance

Challenging the status quo and breaking the rules

Oct 13 • 

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July 2025

What Are Children Really Learning in School?

Challenging how our society educates children...and what they're really learning

Jul 22 • 

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June 2025

Trusting the Process & Relinquishing Control

Whether it's art, writing, parenting, or other aspects of life, trust in the process and respect for the result are important.

Jun 28 • 

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Uncertain Righteousness

We all have a role to play in fixing the current climate of dangerous divisiveness.

Jun 1 • 

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May 2025

Learning Fear

Fear can be weaponized to motivate both children and adults to act in certain ways.

May 4 • 

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March 2025

Shifting Perspective

When things might not be as bad as they look

Mar 23 • 

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Too Much Trouble

Cultivating acceptance and hoping for contentment

Mar 14 • 

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Pursuing Common Pathways

A strategy for finding peace in a troubled world

Mar 8 • 

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