Everyone thinks they know what kids are like. Rowdy and messy. Zero attention span. Frivolous and fickle. Maria Montessori repeatedly found evidence of the exact opposite. In the end, she concluded we *don't know kids* at all:

9yo: I didn't have a real consciousness before I was 3 or 4. I had a baby consciousness. I was like, "Where the hell am I? What is breathing?"

@selentelechia *cries in went to Calvinist school K-8*

There is nothing more challenging, heart wrenching, and anxiety-inducing than being a parent. But the pain is only an insignia of the far greater rewards parenting has to offer.

had a dream last night that @visakanv invited me to speak at his convention. Unfortunately, it was canceled due to a blizzard and so I kept wandering around from hotel to hotel asking “Visa-con, when? Visa-con, when?”

There are two major things that have changed since the beginning. 1. I’ve slowly morphed into more of a parent figure who sets limits, holds boundaries, and helps manage their routines. 2. We’re a lot closer. I think it matters to him at this point if I’m hurt or disappointed

it's not even something I'm giving myself credit for, because it doesn't feel like a choice I made. like I'm pretty overwhelmed, anxious. I'm insanely neurotic and a perfectionist. I think I'm just a narcissist. I can't imagine focusing on anyone else enough to resent them.

I love the eccentric inventor dad trope, where did he go?

@wescarvalho2 Mostly by taking the student aside either in the hallway during class or after class and having a 1:1. Less fun to rebel when you don’t get a reaction, don’t have an audience, and it’s obvious that the person you’re rebelling against just cares about you.

I didn't have the words, but this is what I sensed when I quit: mainstream school is a practice in developmental butchery. Of methodically ripping off the wings of birds, Of throwing these pathetic and deformed creatures out of the nest, And then demanding that they fly.