Category Archives: Natural Learning

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The Creative Outlets

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I’ve discussed here the type of school subjects that interest right-brained children most, and why. But I haven’t taken the time to discuss a category of subjects that are at the heart of a right-brained person: what I term the … Continue reading

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Teacher Talk: Math Corners

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Victoria at Unschooling Math left a comment on my blog post about Honoring Both Math Minds about how her son learns right now: His pattern block designs are counted out and planned in his head before execution. They are usually … Continue reading

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Evidence of the Universal Gift of Pictorial Thinking

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One of the two universal gifts of right-brained people are that they think in pictures…three-dimensional pictures. Chapter Five in my book, The Right Side of Normal, explains this more.  Because three-dimensional pictorial thinking is a universal gift (a trait that all right-brained people … Continue reading

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My Readers Ask: Doesn’t a Learning Disability Label Make a Child Feel Better About Himself?

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Linda Asks: How can being accused of being “lazy”, “unmotivated”, and “irresponsible” possibly feel BETTER to a person who has no control over those traits than being diagnosed with a “learning disability” that explains that these traits (disorganized, spacy, unable … Continue reading

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Turning Fear into Leaps of Faith

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I’m reading the e-book, Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry, by Lenore Skenazy, and it really helped me zero in on our culture’s current parenting focus of fear. The author helped me … Continue reading