Covid Crazy Learning

My youngest child is in her crazy Covid-style GCSE year.
What a year to be doing it -especially after 6-months of no school…

just the odd email from a teacher.
Now it’s all systems go.

Sigh

She jokes that;

when things have gone wrong/something’s on fire/the world’s gone mad: ‘the situation is somewhat sub-optimal’.
2021.

Definitely a somewhat sub-optimal year to be doing your GCSEsTeenagers are great.

They make me laugh.
Particularly this one.
She’s hilarious.

Anyway – we have been doing, what I call ‘revision walks’. Essentially we take revision cards to a venue (the beach, the woods, the park),

I don the revision hat (an embarrassing beanie with a light in it) and we have a bit of a laugh while we get through the questions.

She usually knows the answers – I only manage as I’m the one holding the answers.

I really am NOT good at maths
I can double/halve the ingredients for flapjacks,
what percentage of my life we’ve had some kind of Covid restrictions –

but quadratic equations??

We joke that I ‘hold space’ for her, while she does the heavy lifting with the numbers. They say a lot of maths GCSE/A-Level info gets delivered with the placenta…

This is child #3 and it seemed I managed to provide at least adequate revision assistance for her brother and sister as they did a magnificent job of them.

Working out how to make revision a bit more fun – that’s right up my street.And I did just about slide under the door with a satisfactory pass for my GCSE maths.

Must have been close..
However. I can remember every piece of choreography, ever.

Interesting…What’s the difference?
15-year-old me would say:

“well, that’s because Dancing is great and Maths is boring”.

But that’s not ‘actual factual ‘at all.

There are a great many people who LOVE maths – and the idea of dancing fills them with cold dread.

It is very difficult to dance without exercising.

For me, (by nature, a pretty hedonistic, duvet-day-lovin’ kind of person, left in the wild) a happy by-product of that – is that I have always exercised.

So when people say: “it’s alright for you!!!!” in lots of ways that’s true because I loved dancing, so it made fitness easier.

I found my WHY.

As a ‘Kevin the teenager/Vikki Pollard hybrid, I could regularly be heard whinging:

“what’s the point of this, I’ll never use this stuff, It’s a total waste of time”.

To be fair…I haven’t Fibonacci’ed anything since I left (apart from on revision walks)
Binned off any maths I couldn’t do with a calculator.
But years on, I am still doing the thing I cared about (dancing) – and it STILL isn’t a chore.

This stuff is really important.
This is the nitty-gritty.

In the Human Upgrade, we unravel WHY you do the things you do.
Why you don’t do the things you don’t.
We’ll find out what you love.

Your reasons.
Your whys.

Turn that into a plan to keep you going.

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