tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841739978768061069.post9005546446724618656..comments2022-08-21T10:41:47.279-07:00Comments on Grandma Char's Lessons Learned: Babies are SO smart!Char Brandlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03442090957664361237noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841739978768061069.post-35259236164705606692009-09-10T00:03:58.524-07:002009-09-10T00:03:58.524-07:00I think we can all find these stories within our f...I think we can all find these stories within our families.<br /><br />To find them in the average, random baby: now, that is harder.<br /><br />But it is important that SOMEBODY finds it, or else we won't live, grow and develop.<br /><br />Penny, on Feurestein: (Fire Stone as he might be called in English - a good name for what he does, especially with the flinty stones!) I have heard of the man and some of his method. It's basically 'learning how to learn'. But 'teaching' how to learn in a different way from your Liberal Arts course, and then practising and practising. But yes, learning is instrumental and then we use it to enrich ourselves.<br /><br />(I feel sad that the main thing I know about Feurestein is that it was used for a British woman named Flora Keays - who never got to see her very politically involved Dad).Adelaide Duponthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01490123934889071074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841739978768061069.post-1200695637492485482009-09-05T07:02:53.376-07:002009-09-05T07:02:53.376-07:00Oh, I LIKE that - "pathological optimism!&quo...Oh, I LIKE that - "pathological optimism!" Now if I could only apply that to the mess this world seems to be in!Char Brandlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03442090957664361237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841739978768061069.post-14059084691589132272009-09-04T14:07:27.989-07:002009-09-04T14:07:27.989-07:00Dr Meir Ben-Hur, during a Standard Level 1 trainin...Dr Meir Ben-Hur, during a Standard Level 1 training for Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment, told his students that Dr Feuerstein says we must have a "pathological optimism". I LOVE THAT!<br /><br />False despair -- yep, you're right -- the system is set up that way. :(<br /><br />Penny<br />www.notnewtoautism.blogspot.com<br /><br />We need more love and pathological optimism.Pennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03646382031666180357noreply@blogger.com