Shine

I was thinking today about when Z really shines during a learning experience.

She shines the most when she discovers the answer to a question. The dawning comprehension brings light to her eyes, a toothy grin to her face and an ants in the pants dance of excitment to share her discovery.

she doesn't usually want to be told, she wants to figure things out for herself.

After she had figured something out she likes to play with the knowledge for awhile, literally or figuratively, turning it around and around, playing with it and poking at it and finding it's boundries and parameters.

Then she does not want the repetition often asked of her, to prove she knows it or to really cement the knowledge.

The above is very very true of Z and her learning experiences. How is it that I have never really thought about it as fact that needs to be worked with?

I have said that she is "all about novelty" but that wasn't exactly right and it actually diminished and belittled the truth of it.

It is not about the information being new and it is all about the excitement of discovery.