Life Adventures for Miles

Today....was lazy. The main adventure was a luna independent mess of a room. She seems to be finding and rearranging her toys since the painted dresser has been gone. I am unsure of how many times I, she or, we picked up any messes of the day. She certainly enjoyed finding her musical instruments as they and her pups were the main toys brought out again and again!

Today we started out with our usual homebody-ness with the paw patrol and legos and screens (and all my normal schtuff-picking up messes, reading, coffee-). Though she did have fun with some chalk and our table. I t looked like our afternoon was going to be the same-ness...then Luna was admit she wanted the bookstore at the mall so...that was our main adventure today! She had a some fun with the toys and books and then a good time playing with her mini "backpack" pups and snacking on gummies. I...miss-planned as I forgot my glasses (which only really means that if I didn't want blurred edges when looking at something, I'd have to be uber super close...which is my habit anyway), however, more importantly, I forgot that fall/winter time it gets dark earlier so...we walked home in the dark (it was like 5 pm-ish). From this experience I realized (again) that our main neighborhood street is treated more like a normal not neighborhood street for speed, they have poor lighti...

Frederick Fröbel is a dude from Germany that coined the term Kindergarten and basically changed, challenged and transformed the education system in the late 19th century. The fact that he started it by realizing the learning early is one of the best ways to cultivate a being, letting children develop through the process of play and their own learning without the stress of their the adult authority pressed upon them (ie, being a little adult/child labor) allows them to grow ideas of their own as well as have the fundamentals stick more regularly. He encouraged mothers and women educators as they were the closest to the children at that young age. While his ideas were unpopular to certain extent (they claimed it too "socialistic"), it gained enough traction to endure to this day (I think today we would call it preschool rather then kidergarten...at least in the US,as kindergarten is now more...paper learning with tests and deadlines). This also reminds me of...Japan...or is it ...