Comments on: Rethinking Toddler Craft Time http://itsawahmlife.com/rethinking-toddler-craft-time.html Creating Connections and Living Out Loud Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:53:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: A Quiet Simple Learning Life » Blog Archive » Toddler play doesn’t have to be complicated http://itsawahmlife.com/rethinking-toddler-craft-time.html/comment-page-1#comment-23 A Quiet Simple Learning Life » Blog Archive » Toddler play doesn’t have to be complicated Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:12:27 +0000 http://itsawahmlife.com/?p=44#comment-23 [...] was such a great reminder of how toddlers play and “work”. From Rethinking Toddler Craft Time: It really is all about the JOURNEY, and enjoying the process. It’s NOT about the finished [...] [...] was such a great reminder of how toddlers play and “work”. From Rethinking Toddler Craft Time: It really is all about the JOURNEY, and enjoying the process. It’s NOT about the finished [...]

]]> By: Mary K Weinhagen http://itsawahmlife.com/rethinking-toddler-craft-time.html/comment-page-1#comment-14 Mary K Weinhagen Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:26:04 +0000 http://itsawahmlife.com/?p=44#comment-14 I so appreciate your post, Jackie! Having spent time with young children for years as a Childcare Provider, I was very aware of the contrast between what feeds a child in enriching ways... and what the parents 'expected' that to 'look' like... and have to admit it was far more challenging educating the parents than the kids ;-) Appreciating the parents desire to have the 'cute' work of art hanging on their refrigerator as a reflection that their child did something 'constructive' in daycare while knowing it was the mud splatter on my kitchen walls that measured the REAL learning going on was always a bit of a clash. ;-) So yes... THE JOY IS IN THE JOURNEY (and the experience always trumps the result)! --Mary K ¸..· ´¨¨)) -:¦:- ¸.·´ .·´¨¨)) ((¸¸.·´ ..·´ -:¦:- -:¦:- ((¸¸.·´* Light EXPECT MIRACLES! I so appreciate your post, Jackie!

Having spent time with young children for years as a Childcare Provider, I was very aware of the contrast between what feeds a child in enriching ways… and what the parents ‘expected’ that to ‘look’ like…

and have to admit it was far more challenging educating the parents than the kids ;-)

Appreciating the parents desire to have the ‘cute’ work of art hanging on their refrigerator as a reflection that their child did something ‘constructive’ in daycare while knowing it was the mud splatter on my kitchen walls that measured the REAL learning going on was always a bit of a clash. ;-)

So yes… THE JOY IS IN THE JOURNEY (and the experience always trumps the result)!

–Mary K

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EXPECT MIRACLES!

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