Moments #65 - On Children, Confidence and Building Competence Outside The Classroom - Tiffany Scott (Sanya)

<p>My 5 year old son ran the Great North Run for Kids on Saturday. He loved it. But I only discovered that he loved running when I took him for a run a year ago. </p><p>He loved it. He said mummy let us go again.</p><p>Now he keeps up with me.</p><p>I also started playing music in the mornings. My daughter catches a lyric from a song we played earlier and repeats it after school like she has been rehearsing it all day.</p><p>Neither of them was told what to love. They were just given the space to find it.</p><p>In this episode:<br />→ Why school is too narrow in its definition of smart — and why building competence outside the classroom matters<br />→ Creating the environment for discovery — how small moments reveal what your children are made of<br />→ Paying close attention as a form of love — and what I missed not having my own mother do that for me<br />→ The legacy I want to leave them — not just the grades or achievements, but the ability to see themselves learn to do a thing</p><p>For the mother who is already noticing things in her children that nobody else has named yet.</p><p>Trust what you see. </p>