the other day I was making sandwiches for everyones lunch when Axanti and Marcy said, “you’re not making us sandwiches with that nasty cheese like yesterday are you?” At first I was like, “no, let me get the other cheese”. Then later that day I’m thinking that I need to teach my daughter to appreciate whatever they get because “when I was your age” we were happy to even have cheese. That was better than a sandwich with meat and no cheese, which was better than a mayonnaise sandwich with no meat or cheese.
So, I’m thinking, “how can I teach them to be appreciative of how good they have it” when I then thought of how hard Marcy and I work to make sure they have the opportunity to not have to settle for a meat sandwich or a mayonnaise sandwich or NO sandwich for that matter. Looking at how I grew up compared to how the girls are growing up just shows how we’re making sure that they are getting a better start in life than we had.
So, I’m going to run to the store and get the cheese they like. But when I don’t or can’t, they better eat that nasty cheese!
“They see differently. Literally,” he begins. Male and female eyes are not organized in the same way, he explains. The composition of the male eye makes it attuned to motion and direction. “Boys interpret the world as objects moving through space,” he says. “The teacher should move around the room constantly and be that object.”
The male eye is also drawn to cooler colors like silver, blue, black, grey, and brown. It’s no accident boys tend to create pictures of moving objects like spaceships, cars, and trucks in dark colors instead of drawing the happy colorful family, like girls in their class.
The female eye, on the other hand, is drawn to textures and colors. It’s also oriented toward warmer colors—reds, yellow, oranges—and visuals with more details, like faces. To engage girls, Chadwell says, the teacher doesn’t need to move as much, if at all. Girls work well in circles, facing each other. Using descriptive phrases and lots of color in overhead presentations or on the chalkboard gets their attention.
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