MojoMommaMagic Homeschooling

Reconnecting with WONDER Recently I read Kindness and Wonder about Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers). One story grabbed me about a preschool that had a local sculptor who was also a professor come in and teach sculpting once a week. One year, they changed it up.  The sculptor simply came in with his supplies and sat in the middle of the preschool area and enjoyed sculpting in front of them. That's IT. No "formal" lesson plan or telling the children how to sculpt. He brought his joy and love of sculpting and integrated. Guess what they found? In this cohort, the children created more sculptures than any cohort ever had before and on measures of complexity and creativity , they far surpassed prior peers.  This story circled me back to the concept of Big Sistering  learning discovered in The Brave Learner by Julie Bogart. The concept of the homeschooler as a collaborative partner in learning.    A Glimpse of Practical Magic  This we...

  You Say Toe-may-toe, Toe-mah-toh, Tomatis… Of the 2000+ hours of intervention we’ve had to help Liam learn, thrive and grow over the past decade, we finally found THE KEY a mere six months ago.  We’ve done it ALL…We have been fans of wonderfully skilled helpers and teachers along the way. The OT's, PT's, pediatric psychiatry, psychology/counseling, pediatrician and pediatric neurology.  When in the school system it was the IEP, FBA, ESP, 504 and BIP (all another post). Not to mention the looooong waiting lists for ABA therapy--that thankfully never happened.     TOMATIS THERAPY. A word I never knew until six months ago let alone knew how to pronounce. It began with a most unlikely mother’s day gift of the book The Brains Way of Healing by Dr. Norman Doidge and a printed referral for the closest practitioner of Tomatis Method, Dr. Liliana Sacarin.  To say I was skeptical was the understatement of the year. All I’d wanted for Mother’s ...