Creativity and Mistakes

Another of the speakers, at the TedX UWA event, that Damien, was involved in, spoke about her journey from being correct to creative.

Correct to Creative  sadly this talk is no longer available here.

This is such an important part of education that I really wanted to share it here.  Some of the ideas that Anne-Marie shares were also part of Damien's talk, and I think as home educators we need to be conscious of the idea that learning is about exploring and that when exploring anything and everything is permissible.  I'm a big believer in the idea of failing faster, so that it's easier and faster to reach the point of success.  I think one of the many gifts that a home education can offer, is the ability to try all sort of things;activities, ideas, etc and not be judged. 

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This is one of the major differences that I see between home education and home schooling.  Particularly when attending classes that still have assessments.  For me, it is super important to have kids that are intrinsically motivated and self- driven.  If the balance of the education is in the direction of having kids do too many things that are to satisfy others' needs and if external assessment is valued over self- assessment then a loss of motivation is something that occurs quite naturally IMO.

TedX UWA

We've been a bit stressed out around here, though mostly that has been Damien, the last few weeks.  I suggested that he do a TedX talk on creativity, since as a family we get a bit of interest around our presentation.  So he made a submission; “Creative expression starts with connection and the support to express yourself. Connection and support starts with the family”.  Shortly after he received a "yes".  Then he progressively got more and more stressed, til it all came together on the day.  So the week before around here, it was not a relaxing place to be.  This is his blog with his experience.

Willow and Gabriel went to hear all the talks, but since Irving is still a bit little I snuck into the Lawrence Wilson Gallery, with Arden and Irving, at UWA to hear Damien and then snuck out again.  I'm glad we went to hear it, but Irving was a bit chatting during it; particularly when Damien came out to speak, and he yelled, "DADDY!"  Fortunately it didn't put Damien off. Irving, Arden and I spent some time exploring the beautiful gardens around UWA afterwards.

The grounds at UWA

Mostly I've been working through getting through my sewing pile this week, taking in some clothes, with the help of a new book that I picked up, "The Sewing Bible for Clothes Alterations" by Judith Turner.   We've also caught up with friends, and continued reading "Little House on the Prairie", Willow, Gabriel, Damien and I went to a workshop by the Rich Dad, Poor Dad group and Gabriel, Willow and Damien went to see WA Opera perform "The Elixir of Love".

Willow has gotten back into her school work this week, and had an audition, for a youtube series, which she was happy with.  We've been gradually catching up on our feedback/meeting sessions with her, since the busy perfomance season.

It's been rather rainy this week, but we've just had a sunflower open on our balcony, and Irving and Arden have been nibbling our cherry size tomatoes that are ripening.

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Wow, our balcony has so few plants!  Irving really loves gardening so our balcony is quite full now.  In fact I was just thinking that we need to put some more seeds out, and also I want to harvest some of our aloe vera, which is one of the plants that thrives on our balcony.  Basil, tomatoes, rosemary, chillis nasturtiums, lettuce, mint also seem to do well in terms of food.