Can I say how much can change in as little as 9 months? (Their time, not ours obviously.) In nine months, these two went from being at each other’s throats at the drop of a dime to bantering and carrying on like they had been best friends for years. They still have their rough spots, but they are truly acting like sisters, and if this is an indication of the future, God help anyone who tries to hurt either of them as the other will make them suffer.
Indeed. One of the key liberating moments in life is when you realize that you have the freedom to choose what you want to learn and therefore to pursue it however you like.
Now more than ever — when I was growing up we of course didn’t have access to even a rudimentary internet, let alone YouTube video tutorials, Youglish, Wikipedia, Stack Exchange, Khan Academy, and just generally the information of the world at our fingertips.
There’s an excellent video miniseries by Extra Credits called “Letters for My Nephews” where James discusses principles he wants his nephews to know, and one of them is the ability to freely research anything you want to learn. We’re no longer so limited in what and how we can learn, and we don’t need to accept being helpless or “not good enough” at whatever we want to know.
…and the public school system *still* teaches too many kids that learning is a painful chore to be cast aside as soon as one is free to do so. I cannot fathom that mindset, truly cannot.
Says the Sarnothi who is going to simultaneously do speech therapy AND learn a language. :p
Can I say how much can change in as little as 9 months? (Their time, not ours obviously.) In nine months, these two went from being at each other’s throats at the drop of a dime to bantering and carrying on like they had been best friends for years. They still have their rough spots, but they are truly acting like sisters, and if this is an indication of the future, God help anyone who tries to hurt either of them as the other will make them suffer.
It’s not homework unless someone else is making you do it.
Exactly. Just as Calvin and Hobbes have taught us: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/07/16
Indeed. One of the key liberating moments in life is when you realize that you have the freedom to choose what you want to learn and therefore to pursue it however you like.
Now more than ever — when I was growing up we of course didn’t have access to even a rudimentary internet, let alone YouTube video tutorials, Youglish, Wikipedia, Stack Exchange, Khan Academy, and just generally the information of the world at our fingertips.
There’s an excellent video miniseries by Extra Credits called “Letters for My Nephews” where James discusses principles he wants his nephews to know, and one of them is the ability to freely research anything you want to learn. We’re no longer so limited in what and how we can learn, and we don’t need to accept being helpless or “not good enough” at whatever we want to know.
…and the public school system *still* teaches too many kids that learning is a painful chore to be cast aside as soon as one is free to do so. I cannot fathom that mindset, truly cannot.
That’s one way to make sure Amanda doesn’t get ahead of her. Convince her the means to teach her more is homework.
If anyone is in a good position to teach Amanda about making things safely, it’s Andi.
She’s probably had more than one accident of her own over the years.
It could be argued that Amanda WAS one of those accidents :p
There’s no function for it on the website, but you have now officially received my upvote
How about train your Echo powers, girls?
Warms my heart to see how far they’ve come.