I just had an epiphany I had to note down. I was reading a friend’s email and noticed
her mistakes of spelling. Her acceptance
of her own mistakes makes it easier for me to accept my own. When I see her accept her misspelled words
and not try to make everything perfect, it makes me feel like she is forgiving
of mistakes. So when I write her I feel
like she is not going to be critical of my misspellings because she is not
critical of her own, and that gives me an allowance: a safe environment to make
mistakes !!
This is my mission to provide this
environment. I have been noticing lately
how I am so constricting with making mistakes with the children that they do
not feel safe to explore or experiment or even sometimes learn. I need to get better with this. – but it
starts with accepting my own mistakes.
How do I do that?
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