Sunday, October 7, 2018
Sandplay prompts mental processes
Rhoda
Kellogg (1979) stated,
Young children cannot learn faster
than their brain growth permits. “Hothouse” efforts to cultivate their minds
can be dangerous
…Whether the hand holds a crayon or
paintbrush, to mark on a paper, or any instrument that makes a scratch on the
earth’s surface, or the fingers simply move over a
surface covered
with steam, frost, food, sand, or any substance that permits a
record of the hand movements to be made, the resulting effects will stimulate
new brain activity. Creating something with one’s own
hand that is new to see constitutes an everlasting and pleasing new mental
stimulus that delights homosapiens everywhere.
When children’s
hands are active and
guided under eye control, their minds are being developed
meaningfully…Children’s eyes and hands must be active for intelligence to
develop… The area of the brain’s cortex used for storing sensory data resulting
from manual activities is as great as that for storing sensations from
shoulders to feet
… The
hands must move
and the eyes must see the results of movement in order to stimulate mental
processes…
Friday, September 28, 2018
Sunday, March 25, 2018
Africa's greatest treasure: Her children
Saturday, March 24, 2018
Let me come to be still in your silence
Let me come to be still in your silence
And let me talk to you with your silence
That is bright as a lamp
Simple, as a ring
You are like the night
With its stillness and constellations
Your silence is that of a star
As remote and candid
And let me talk to you with your silence
That is bright as a lamp
Simple, as a ring
You are like the night
With its stillness and constellations
Your silence is that of a star
As remote and candid
-Pablo Neruda
Sunday, November 12, 2017
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