by Britt Kelly | Mar 5, 2016 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
My 3 year old is considering potty training. That would have a wonderful impact on my life. She’s not totally ready. I can reward and chart and beg and do heaps and heaps of laundry. OR I can offer and wait. Keep open to it and be willing. Imagine if we decided at age...
by Britt Kelly | Feb 6, 2016 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
Long, long ago when I was in high school Calculus I asked my teacher why I would ever need to know how to calculate the area of something he couldn’t even draw. I asked him what calculus is used for in real life. He didn’t have an answer for me. I dropped the class at...
by Britt Kelly | Jan 16, 2016 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
I have spent a good deal of time lately helping young people with Algebra. I have been tutoring others as well as working with my own children. Of those who need help, one frequent problem keeps popping up…they don’t know their times tables. Even basic algebra...
by Britt Kelly | Jan 9, 2016 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
Making…AND KEEPING..New Year’s resolutions with ONE simple rule: Well, not so much keeping them as living with them. Why am I writing this now? Why write this when many people have already killed their new year’s resolutions by this point? That is exactly why...
by Britt Kelly | Dec 22, 2015 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
This is not an existential search for self…this is a plea for mothers and others to chose wisely between serving others and making others happy. Making other people happy sounds lovely and very Christmas-y. We like to see other people smile. Making other people...
