Just a little (link) love: one patient pup edition
August 20, 2020
If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020?
Current total: Lakota, $1,713.62; Rural libraries, $321.62.
The High Risk Heroics Behind Making Sure You Get New Gadgets This Fall: Reading this, I can’t help but think we have our priorities entirely wrong. THIS is the kind of effort we’ll put into manufacturing devices but not in making society a better place?
Many COVID-19 patients lost their sense of smell. Will they get it back?
Teaching Isn’t About Managing Behavior: It’s about reaching students where they really are. I don’t understand why teachers aren’t taught to teach this way to begin with, though.
One Frugal Girl is homeschooling this year and researched a lot of interesting resources. We are definitely not homeschooling but we have been managing JB’s remote education through the summer with a combination of one on one lessons given by a teacher, one-off classes online, and lots of reading and recreational writing with us. Their spelling is amazingly creative at this stage and I don’t know if that’s normal but it’s pretty funny. I would love some other creative and fun math resources from a secular company though. We picked up the Singapore math books, and JB loves those in the abstract, but gets distracted easily.
This Black women in fantasy photography is absolutely breathtaking.
I’m the worst at calmly accepting and sitting with uncertainty, it reminds me too much of the emotional whiplash of my teens and twenties when I was supporting my family and taking all the hits of their decisions. “On the flip side of every good thing is the risk that it will end.” It’s an interesting mental thing I have going on that I always gird myself against the bad times lasting forever and the good things ending unexpectedly. That comes from experiencing the loss of so many loved ones over the course of a decade, and the Great Recession and countless other bad things strung together. Their impact overshadows the very real good things that happened across that same time span. I’m working on it, and it’s progress that I recognize that even bad times surely will come to an end, but boy is it a rough journey.
I absolutely love seeing a beautiful cake (in pictures, not in person since I can’t have them – no beautifully decorated cake is ever GF and sugar free 😭😅) and if you enjoy cake design too, hie thee to Syndesi Desserts!
I had no idea that ice cream shop songs had racist origins, but now that I know, I’m glad to enjoy this new jingle.
How does An Post do it??
Good things come to those who wait
golden retriever spotted, purposely laying in the middle of the sidewalk to get pets from strangers. very strategic
(fridaygolden/sassthx IG) pic.twitter.com/8ZDySIi2nm— Humor And Animals (@humorandanimals) August 19, 2020
I lost my sense of smell back after probable-covid! Took about ten days. It took my dad more like six weeks.
I’m glad you both eventually got it back!
Teaching does have a component of managing behavior though. You can’t reach students if other students are being disruptive or bullying or etc. And it’s a lot easier to reach students who are paying attention even if there’s something interesting on their phones.
I became a ton better teacher after I started treating my students like toddlers instead of adults.
It makes sense to me that managing behavior is an integral PART of teaching but it makes less sense to me (as a non-teacher who has only discussed this in depth with actual teacher friends who already teach like this) to see it as *the* focal point of teaching. But they’re at different age groups than your students too, so maybe it’s a professional distinction I am missing!
JB might be old enough to enjoy the “Bedtime Math” books. Very fun little facts/stories with goofy pictures and relevant math practice questions (ie If you drop 7 pieces of pepperoni on the floor but your dog eats 3, how many are left?) Dollar store math workbooks, sticker books, dot to dot pages, a variety of manipulatives to count & sort, and tangrams or similar shape puzzles are great for developing solo math skills. Board & card games can be very effective too – but then a parent has to play with the kid, so YMMV. Playing more than half a round of ‘Chutes & Ladders’ makes me want to shoot the game out the window! 😣
Ah thank you for the recommendation of the Bedtime Math books. We’ve got some of the random math counters and things but I need something that’s a bit more solo-worthy because most of the games they currently have do require a second participant. That doesn’t work so well when we all need our time!
When I was growing up, I was taught that God hates pride. Trouble was my mind confused joy with pride. If I ever felt joy due to a personal accomplishment, I squashed it because I worried something bad would happen to balance it out. My memory sounds aligned with your fear that good won’t last long. One way I have tried to counteract this mental habit is to replace it with another superstitious thought! Along the lines of, if I don’t thoroughly enjoy this happiness while it’s here, it’ll be gone faster. The replacement thought has helped me be more present. Maybe you could try to replace one of your most frequently appearing thoughts too?
I’d think that was not just superstitious though. The reality IS that if we won’t enjoy the happiness in front of us, it certainly will go away. It’ll probably go away faster because we also sabotage it, in refusing to enjoy it. So. That does make sense. I’m working on it…
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