“I will become a mother. I have eggs to grow.”
“Lils, you’re a cat…”
“A Chicken-Cat.”
Well, then. Ok.
The video attached was filmed (is that what we still call it?) by Lily, with the assistance of Russ.
Note: discover.cecilynixon.com has become, per the conversation that followed after she made the video, discover.cecilynixon.com. She’s already informed me that she wants to make a cecilynixon.com/Elsa and that she is hopeful I’ll instruct enough that she can build the site. She has discovered this week what it looks like when Mama builds a site for a client, and yesterday (prior to this video) announced, “Why does he (the client) get a site?”
My reply, “Because he asked me to build it and is paying me to do so within a certain amount of time.”
“Oh, that’s why you’re focusing so much on it… I want one too.”
So far, I’ve been able to give the client’s site about 2.3 hours, but to her, even though those hours were spent while she and her Papa played games, they were apparently noticed. For once, I spent a couple hours not doing “work” on the computer (like financials, etc… which she is accustomed to about once a month), and not working on the house. She thought I was just playing around, and I do have to admit that working on a site is much like playing for me, and so she wanted in on the action.
Alright, fine. CecilyNixon.com is born. Have at it Bugz!
~ One of the many wonderful aspects of being in a position to educate her in such a free development, curiosity and interest led environment (hers mostly, but some of mine or Russ’s too) is that we don’t have to do anything in a linear fashion. We do what we do as it comes to us. As a result, though Lily has already developed a fairly decent foundation as far as written language and how numbers and physics work, along with a developing sense of chemistry and a solid understanding of biology and the natural world, she has the opportunity now to develop technical skills that reach far beyond what she would gain in simple computing classes within a school. In fact, by the time she is 10, she will have out learned, out developed, and become so far more fluent in the language of tech than students exiting 6+ years of post-secondary education, that I half suspect she’ll be designing or even developing by her early teens.
Why do I value this skill? Because it removes any handicaps that might be there otherwise. Functioning within the world of computing for Lily is as natural as climbing a tree. As natural as learning… just like blowing things up with baking powder, and constructing bridges with sticks and marshmallows. She’s picking up some mad debate skills, survival sense, medical repair and holistic knowledge for health, and an awareness of quantum mechanics (we were talking about dimensional shifting and macro-existence last night).
It’s fun.
Here’s her video