Gentle Revolution Homeschooling (Archive): Plastic Cup + Poker Chips = Simple Small Motor Activity

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Plastic Cup + Poker Chips = Simple Small Motor Activity

The
~~lazy~~busy parent's solution to an easy small motor activity. Plastic cup, slit cut in top with scissors, poker chips (or coins, checker pieces, Damien even was sticking plastic alphabet magnets in there, whatever fits).

Simple, cheap, kept Damien busy for a good amount of time!

Damien is currently 1 year, 7 months old (19 months)

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Gentle Revolution 101

Your Answer Defines You
"What can we do with thirty seconds? What can we not do with thirty seconds!... [Suppose] your little child looks out the window and sees a collie. 'What's that?' he asks you. You have five options, which will each take about thirty seconds to make stick:

1. We can tell him, "Look, baby, Mommy has to get dinner."
2. We can tell him, "That's a bow-wow."
3. We can tell him, "That's a dog."
4. We can tell him, "That's a dog called a collie."

The fifth option is to tell him that it is a dog called a collie and then go on to tell him thirty second's worth of information about that animal...

How sad it is that we put information into a computer with great skill and great precision and put information into our children's brains in a hit-or-miss, slip-shod, and often untruthful way."

-Glenn Doman