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Beginner’s Mind
She finds strange ways to eat her food--with unconventional utensils, toys, you name it. She postulates theories about the moon's craters, snail family dynamics, and how to help people less fortunate than we are. As humans, there is so much we know and so little we know; even if I had a degree in any of these areas, who would I be to retort back at every one of...
Posted on May 04, 2010 - 04:33 AM by Sara Schmidt in Uncharted Parenting
One of my jobs as a parent is to keep my four-year-old's beginner's mind intact. Without me (or any other adults) in her life, I believe that this would happen naturally. But since my views and the views of the other adults around her are all clouded with our own experiences and opinions, we have to learn to tread lightly every day.She finds strange ways to eat her food--with unconventional utensils, toys, you name it. She postulates theories about the moon's craters, snail family dynamics, and how to help people less fortunate than we are. As humans, there is so much we know and so little we know; even if I had a degree in any of these areas, who would I be to retort back at every one of...