Visually inspired during Homework
Aug 12, 2020
Homework is here again. If you are a lifelong learner, it never really goes away; you just learn to morph it into something more giving in your life and not a chore. I enjoy being able to instill that into children as they move through their day and how they will utilize the things that they are learning every day into their lives as a way to problem solve, understand the multiple solutions available, interact with a task, etc.
Math might be more interesting and fun in looking at a photo of flowers, realizing that nature uses mathematical proportions prolifically to uphold the bloom of a flower that then lives its life in a ratio and mathematical equation, therefore answering the question of “When am I ever going to use this in my life?” The answer is that we are constantly utilizing things that we are learning when we are going through school and now is a wonderful time to integrate that in a way that sort of asks the person doing the homework to learn that portion of it as well.
Get inspired by the visually pleasing ratio of a photograph of your choosing as you make your way through reading about someone from history that may have been making dinner at the same time that they were coming up with a speech, or doing another task as they contemplated how they wanted to be the change they wished to live in. Inspiration comes through life, morphed out of complicated moments or just morphed out of one moment that has a lasting impact. Homework happened throughout those moments that your children might now be studying, it can be more interesting if you find the right thread that they can pick up and continue the story into their own lives through something tactile, visually pleasing, inspiring, or as a grouping. It helps to set the mood of the room to form a habit of going into a space that the mind finds restful so that new moments of connection can be made and fully formulated during these foundational study habits begin to be practiced.
I find it helps to bring them to the place of independent thought for optional solutions from within themselves and that can happen over a pretty flower, a lovely horse, a sticker from the top of the computer that reminds them to laugh. Homework is going to happen so you may as well set up the place to be a welcome space to connect from within with the mind open and eager to interact with it in a fun and inspiring, creative and empowering way.