Congratulations on the feature! First - so excited to to make those muffins, yum! Second - I totally relate to the piece about cooking with kids in the kitchen. It doesn’t work for me right now (mostly because of my kids ages) and I’m ok with it. I try my best not to feel guilty about it. Thank you for this issue!
We were homeschooling and I read the book Thomas Jefferson education which changed my life. It is basically about fixing and working on YOU and your children taking lessons from that more than you focusing your time/energy on the act of teaching down to them. So doing, not telling. If you read, they will read, if you follow your interests, they will learn to do the same. This means less about producing to me and more about learning what intrinsically motivates you. Not revolving your life around working for someone else – because that is how it is now a days – but working for yourself and making your life more purposefully driven. I like the idea of "laying down" (or focusing on what matters to you) because it is exactly the opposite of being productive in a capitalist society and other people start to notice when you start doing it. They ask themselves - well why am I doing this if they figured out how not to? But if we all follow along, there is no fighting the power. Power to the people to lay down and do their own thing.
Congratulations on the feature! First - so excited to to make those muffins, yum! Second - I totally relate to the piece about cooking with kids in the kitchen. It doesn’t work for me right now (mostly because of my kids ages) and I’m ok with it. I try my best not to feel guilty about it. Thank you for this issue!
We were homeschooling and I read the book Thomas Jefferson education which changed my life. It is basically about fixing and working on YOU and your children taking lessons from that more than you focusing your time/energy on the act of teaching down to them. So doing, not telling. If you read, they will read, if you follow your interests, they will learn to do the same. This means less about producing to me and more about learning what intrinsically motivates you. Not revolving your life around working for someone else – because that is how it is now a days – but working for yourself and making your life more purposefully driven. I like the idea of "laying down" (or focusing on what matters to you) because it is exactly the opposite of being productive in a capitalist society and other people start to notice when you start doing it. They ask themselves - well why am I doing this if they figured out how not to? But if we all follow along, there is no fighting the power. Power to the people to lay down and do their own thing.
This is such a beautiful comment, Alison. And now I want to read that book. Thanks for the tip!