Book Highlights: The Gift of Failure, By Jessica Lahey
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BOOK HIGHLIGHTS from The Gift of Failure: How the best parents learn to let go so their children can succeed, by Jessica Lahey Jessica Lahey on GETTING RID OF YOUR CHILD’S OBSTACLES: “The setbacks, mistakes, miscalculations and failures we [shove] out of our children’s way are the very experiences that teach them how to be […]
Play vs. Games
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“So, Acton is play based, like Montessori schools?” We love games at Acton Academy Port St. Lucie. Absolutely LOVE them and, by this I mean every day involves engaging the learners in multiple games or I feel I am not doing my job correctly as Guide-Gamemaker. And while games are fun to play, Acton […]