homeschooling with both feet, as a grand
adventure. Everything is about learning, and
their days (and houses) show it.
What kind of Hundred Acre Wood Homeschooler Are You?
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Sure, I knew that already. Woo! hoo! hoo!
Just a cute quiz to take, maybe someone will get a different answer and let me know who they are/what their result to the quiz is/let me know if it’s accurate to their model of life if I don’t know what their’s is like.
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We are Tiggery, we have no schedule, bounce all over the place and have fun … but don’t always have something visibly going on, it’s not a “physical” Tigger Home Education we have, but a Visual-Spatial anything mind or body sort of thing. Kind of like how the Pixar movie “The Incredibles” can be viewed as an allegory about Gifted Education … and translates beautifully to the entire gamut of “gifted intellectually” or “gifted physically” or “gifted creative artsy” types. In the movie the “gifted” are the “natural super-heros” and the guy who has no “natural super-hero ablility” does have what would be considered “giftedness” in our world, but in the movie it’s “fake super-hero” stuff, creative, sure, but not what makes a “super-hero” in the movie. So to align the creative guy in the real world with what he’d be around the “natural-super-hero’s” which are “naturally gifted” would be to make him out to be a clever system to make regular folk appear to be as smart, creative, physical as gifted folk, but really aren’t aside from great tools that make them mediocrely successful.
In the real world, great tools work MAGIC with gifted folks using them, and only make mediocre stuff out of non-gifted.
Like take art, music.
Put a gifted singer in front of a mic and let her rip
Put a wanna-be-singer in front of a mic and let her sing and let the studio make her rip.
The real singer is good on her own
The other ain’t, but is marketed.
So what.
That’s me. I don’t record, sure, wish I could, but that’s beside the point. I haven’t not succeeded, so what. I wish to, but haven’t pursued it. The only point I’m making here is that the singers out there being played are mostly not good naturally, and there are some of us out here that are naturally good, so they [the recorded ones] should all be happy we live in a world that Cindro created. 🙂
It’s just an example.
OK, so I am keeping my children with me, and it’s natural, and we are bouncy and plan to pursue all things that crop up. I’m not a bouncy person though. I’m as slow as molasses in person, quiet, reserved, crazy in my mind, racing around and having a million thoughts at once. To some I might be loud, but they don’t know the real me. I’m a nut in some cases, I can be really loud and forward, but normally I’m what I am: an introvert and glad to just watch and race around in my own head, that has rich worlds in deep layers inside.
This goes to me thinking then, how does a non-visual-spatial-introvert live in their heads, what’s it like? If they aren’t pictoral in thought, how do they introvertedly be reflective in the introvert-ish way. See there, now I have some new knowledge to pursue. That’s sort of what it’s like in our home educationally. One thing sparks a new idea and we or they or I or the one goes off and finds something else that brings them to that other thing, then sparks a revolutionary thought that opens up a whole new something else.
La dee da da day, normal day for us.
4 responses to “Homeschool “Hundred Acre Wood” style”
“This goes to me thinking then, how does a non-visual-spatial-introvert live in their heads, what’s it like? If they aren’t pictoral in thought, how do they introvertedly be reflective in the introvert-ish way.”
That’s easy enough: words, conversations. You think you’re crazy, I have imaginary conversations in my own head and that’s how I figure things out.
=8^o
I got Tigger, too, which is interesting. It must have something to do with the currently rather unstructured nature of our homeschool. I’m still a bit out of sorts.
I wonder what it will turn out to be if I change the answers to the way I’d like to homeschool if I had the energy for it?
Well, the only thing there was to change was from “wing it” to “routine/schedule” and I’m still Tigger.
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Kelly, thanks. 🙂
I guess I wanted to figure out how it was without pictures, I mean, do you not have pictures, or do you ‘sometimes have pictures’, or colors, or graphical things or … just sounds, do you ever SEE words, or just HEAR them, or what?
I really am crazy, BTW. 🙂 I call myself “crazy maisy” 🙂
I have all of it, pictures, sounds, voices, movies, graphics, snapshots, drawings, visions, dreams, blah, blah, blah, so I can hardly imagine what it’s like to have only part of it … do you know what I mean? So I’m wondering from that perspective …
So are you saying then that you aren’t VS? If you don’t mind telling me, what is your MBTI or Braintype … mind is INTP. Are you “IxxJ something or other”?
Oh, yeah, I’m INTJ, though the P is a close second – close enough that I sometimes operate that way.
No, mostly I’m very auditory and it was only a couple of weeks ago that I realized that that’s why sounds overwhelm me. In high school and college, folks would recommend studying with classical music in the background, but I could never do that because I can’t tune it out. I have trouble getting my work done when the kids are around because all their noise and chatter distracts me so that I can’t concentrate on the task at hand. The one exception to this is if I become involved in an intensely visual activity to the exclusion of everything else, i.e. reading. When I’m reading, because I’m sitting perfectly still (and to be honest, my favorite position for reading is lying down on my side with the book propped, so that my body is totally at rest), I can completely tune out everything around me.
When I’m reading fiction, it’s very auditory, but also somewhat visual. I hear the characters’ accents, I hear the sound effects, the narrator has a voice. Sometimes I can almost feel and smell what’s happening. The images I see aren’t really clear and sharp, but I usually have a picture of the characters and action, and though the picture is vague, it’s important and it has to be accurate. I’ve been reading Out of the Silent Planet this week, and Wednesday I got to the part where Ransom finally leaves the Hrossa to go to Oyarsa. I don’t think it said which direction he was travelling initially, but whe he came out of the forest at the base of the mountains, and “began to work his way southward,” I pictured the mountains on his left, but later Lewis says a path opened out into the forest on his left side. When I read that, I honestly had to “rewind” and reorient my picture so that Ransom turned left when he came out of the forest and had the mountains on his right. It’s very annoying and makes for slow reading, but there it is.
When it comes to abstract thinking, that’s where “conversation” really helps me. I think analogically – “this” is like “that” – and that helps me understand a brand new idea, and where to categorize it with everything else I already know. Sometimes, something stumps me to the point that I can’t understand it if I can’t get a picture of it, but other times an idea comes to me intact and fully formed, but it only exists as an idea.
No, I don’t think that’s the right way to put it. Take my idea of government, for instance. I have this fully developed idea of how the spheres of government ought to work – a hierarchy of authority and responsibility – so that I recognize instantly whether some proposal or other fits in with this model, and it’s such an instinctive response that I cannot understand people who don’t “get” the differences between local, state, and federal spheres, nor why this in an important distinction, and it makes it very difficult for me to engage in conversation with people whose idea of government is wholly Other. Maybe it’s because I grew up with this idea and didn’t learn it in a book, that I know it intimately, but I don’t know its “grammar” so that I can explain it other people. Like a person who knows good English when he sees or hears it but can’t explain why something is bad English. “It just isn’t right, that’s all.” LOL
FWIW, I used to test really high in logic on IQ tests – not as high as I test in language, but definitely above average – but recently I took an online test and scored more than 30 points lower than my normal range! It was humiliating, but my logic was abysmal – even lower than my math. I’d assume it has a lot to do with the fact that I’ve regularly not had enough sleep in the last year or two due to health and other stuff. I’d love to take a sleep vacation. This is an embarrassing thing to talk about, but when I was first married, my daddy had some traffic fine or other that he couldn’t pay, so he just took the jail sentence, which was three months, or so. He said that he slept nearly 20 hours a day, and it actually improved a lot of health and mental problems he’d been having. Daddy was always a night owl, but of course he had to be to work early, so he never got enough sleep on a consistent basis throughout his adult life.
To sleep! Perchance to dream!
😉
I need to look this up here and other places to see what I’ve said before, but saying that, I tend to think that J’s aren’t always very “J”, and from what you are saying this is what I am thinking:
I see me as INTP as a base braintype. Who I am though is someone who has a wholebrain approach that favors right-brain thinking heavily, but has lefty abilities, and absolute lefty difficulties, making me a right-brain learner primarily, a “P” in other words.
I have high sensitivites and if you are familiar with some of the studies behind this stuff, I identify highly with Dubrowskies Overexitabilities (people write about it all over the web).
A major thing about this is that right-brain learners are may be highly intelligent, whether or not an IQ or other sort of test says you are. Tend to be creative. Add sensitivities to highly intelligent creative people and you get someone that is definitely “gifted” but that means nothing about “success” in life, school, work, etc.
It just means they are above the normal thinking and understanding patterns of society. They have things they can do that others can’t, creatively.
We have norms in society, people fall below and also rise above though. It’s “normal”. So to say it in this way I am only defending the right to say what something or someone is, and that by “gifted” I mean these sort of “above the level of norm” intelligence and creatively wise.
Often the right-brain dominant person with sensitivities will show a high functioning left-sequential ability in SOME things, but their audial processing function isn’t very well-tuned, it’s off, in other words.
So take me as an example. I hear fine. I hear extra fine. I have super sensitive ears. But I don’t process language very well when I am supposed to. I “hear” it, but can’t process it always. I have to be super tuned in to that one process to “hear” it fully.
I actually have a bad linguistic processor, but a super-functioning inflection of sound processor. This I say from my own point of view in how I know I function personally.
I hear how people speak and get more out of that than the words they use. Inflection of voice, level of sound, the ups and downs of singsongy talking … these things if they are “pretty” to my ears then allows the “linguistic processor” to kick in and help me figure out what’s being said split-second to split-second. If it’s mundane talk I may have to force my “linguistic processor” to come on, that is if I WANT to hear what’s said. It might be a major battle though to process it and understand something, depending on what’s going on around me.
In conversation I also have this to deal with, but it’s a bit easier when it’s one on one or a topic that’s in a small group and highly interesting. Back and forth banter is easy to connect with, to hear and grasp instantaneously.
Talking at me if I am not interested may mean I sort of hear you, but don’t get it. So just get me to “make a picture” is all it’s about. The whole deal of “audial processing” is pictures, for the rightbrainer with processing “problems”. I don’t really see it as a “problem” of mine. I see it as “they out there can’t always speak in a way to connect to my visionary way of thinking”. 🙂
I do need to see what I wrote about this before. I need to get a post going about the topic as I see it applying to being left or right, and how that relates to what we have in our heads and how we relate to our environs. J’s and P’s can be confused, I know that I’ve read plenty about INTJ’s really being INTP’s … I think a lot of that is based on the “T” of Thinking, the INTP’s thinking function is really a fast and heavy thing. We learn it and put it in place. It’s “J” like in that we seem judgmental … and how that all plays out can be confusing. Basically though, if you Think in Pictures at all, explore Visual Spatial ideas and see how well they fit. Moreso visual spatials that are creative and really intellectual are just INTP’s, for one type, that is gifted. Everyone is different in how they do this and that, but it’s only generalizations of thing that I speak to, things that can be generalized.
Ah, more later, here or somewhere else here, or somewhere else on the web. 🙂