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We Shall Poast Good Tweets Here
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But Always Good Tweets
Matt Bateman
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Matt Bateman
@mbateman
Philosopher at @alphaschool, Principal at @montessorium, husband to @Gena_I_Gorlin, father to the creatures in my dadpoasts
- 25 min of following 1yo, sped up 10x to 2.5 min Nearly zero interference or even interaction as he severally pursued his little side quests I love this age
00:00 - Crazy that “vanilla” is colloquial for “ordinary” as if vanilla wasn’t an S-tier, insanely expensive spice
- me: Please do not help [2yo] open the door 5yo: But he can’t do it me: He believes that he can. In this house we abide by Montessori’s maxim of never helping a child with a task that he believes that he can do himself 5yo: But he’s wrong 5yo: That rule is silly
- Montessori school sent home this photo with the caption “Introduced hammering nails into a pumpkin” like that’s supposed to be somehow self-explanatory
- Was hanging a picture 12 feet up and stepped away for a minute and came back to 2yo
- How long should I soak cast iron before putting it in the dishwasher?
- We gave 4yo an iPad and set it up to offer her three affordances: 1. Take pictures 2. Type in notes 3. Text with a handful of people (family, a couple of family friends) The last one is the big hit. And it is *amazing*. It is immensely developmentally valuable. Why? Well…
- 4yo now deploying “perhaps”, as in, “I will leave this leaf here for a creature to eat—perhaps a caterpillar” Hardest part of being a parent is not bursting with delighted laughter and smothering them with hugs every time they speak
- 10pm, heard faint noises from 1yo’s room, turned up baby monitor, he’s just laying in bed in the dark singing Jingle Bells to himself “vaffing fru the snowwww, horse a horse a sleeeiiigh” Then he fell back asleep Is it possible to have children so cute that you actually die
- [on tarmac] me: Hi, our 1yo might cry the whole flight lady 1: No worries, I’m a mother of four me: Hi, our 1yo might cry the whole flight lady 2: Just give him to me, I have grandma hands me: Hi, our 1yo might cry the whole flight gentleman: That’s fine, he is perfect
- My parenting campaign to use the terms “wise” and “foolish” with the children has finally paid off: 4yo asked “Is that wise?” when I was trying to lift a very heavy box. (It was not wise.)
