Comments on: Full Speed Ahead! http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/09/29/full-speed-ahead/ Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:59:33 -0600 hourly 1 By: Obi-Wandreas http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/09/29/full-speed-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-4586 Obi-Wandreas Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:49:33 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=1073#comment-4586 When I was a kid, the busier I was, the happier I was - especially in high school. I was never happier than when I was running to crew in the morning, heading to the local college for my first math class (run by the same group of Jesuits who ran my high school, though in the early 1900s they moved them to separate locations), heading to high school for the rest of my classes, and then having lord knows what to do after school. Now, as an adult with responsibilities to deal with, I would love to be able to have more down-time. There are all sorts of things I would like to do, but I now have to keep a house clean, make dinners, and take care of my daughter. If I tried to add anything else now I'd have a nervous breakdown. Childhood is a time when kids get to do everything for themselves. They have a limited time to make the most of. In addition, they're at the age at which everything is new and wondrous. They want to be doing things. Every kid needs some 'me time.' What they really need, however, is to do stuff they enjoy. When I was a kid, the busier I was, the happier I was – especially in high school. I was never happier than when I was running to crew in the morning, heading to the local college for my first math class (run by the same group of Jesuits who ran my high school, though in the early 1900s they moved them to separate locations), heading to high school for the rest of my classes, and then having lord knows what to do after school.

Now, as an adult with responsibilities to deal with, I would love to be able to have more down-time. There are all sorts of things I would like to do, but I now have to keep a house clean, make dinners, and take care of my daughter. If I tried to add anything else now I’d have a nervous breakdown.

Childhood is a time when kids get to do everything for themselves. They have a limited time to make the most of. In addition, they’re at the age at which everything is new and wondrous. They want to be doing things. Every kid needs some ‘me time.’ What they really need, however, is to do stuff they enjoy.

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