Because the daydreams are where her creativity is kept.
To turn the question around: why not just rap the knuckles of the
hunter/explorer kids and force them to Sit Down! Shut Up! and Pay Attention!
Pat, educated under exactly that system
http://idiotgrrl.livejournal.com/
From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: Killer Bs Discussion <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Frameshifting
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 10:02:50 -0500
At 09:19 AM Thursday 5/4/2006, PAT MATHEWS wrote:
I noticed a trend in the comments on ADD. Someone is specifically said to
have "inattentive ADD" which is not the same as ADHD. Another poster
starts referring to it (anyway) as ADHD. Then we start getting
recommendations for books addressing ADHD but not the inattentive sort.
Inattentive ADDers may be hunting and exploring, but not in the way those
books suggest. In stead, the hunting and exploring goes on inside the head
of the inattentive ADDer. I cannot emphasize this enough. "Daydreaming" is
the old-fashioned term. Allow the daydreamer to get those fantasies out -
on paper, in words or drawings, or in music or drama or whatever, and
you've reached her. »»» Offer her the chance at physical activity and
on-the-spot decision making and you've played right into her
weaknesses.«««
Bin there dun that Pat
If you don't mind an ignorant question, "Why?" (WRT the emphasized stmt.)
The "old-school traditional approach" would think that getting her to do
something as ordered and teaching her to make proper decisions would be
better than indulging her daydreams.
--Ronn! :)
"Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country and two
words have been added to the pledge of Allegiance... UNDER GOD. Wouldn't
it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated
from schools too?"
-- Red Skelton
(Someone asked me to change my .sig quote back, so I did.)
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