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Making Choices

As adults we make choices everyday.  We have had practice.  We choose what to wear, what to have for breakfast, what to eat for lunch, where to go on vacation, weather or not to do the laundry, when to go to bed, etc.  We have also had to make the important decisions like getting married, giving in to peer pressure, buying a house.  As my children grow older I realize the many "big" decisions they make everyday and I am happy that they have had the opportunity to make choices and learn through them throughout their lives.   Making choices does not come naturally to all children.  In the classroom some children wait for the teachers to choose for them.  As their guides we direct them and help them develop comfort in their decision making skills.  We focus on the natural consequences of poor choices and the joys of good choices.           If we and not the children choose the task, then they t hink about us instead of the task             ~How Children Fail - John Holt