I’ve been given the opportunity to work with a special needs kid one-on-one and I’m teaching him #BlackHistory through claywork.
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I’ve been given the opportunity to work with a special needs kid one-on-one and I’m teaching him #BlackHistory through claywork. Last week we discussed the history behind Southern face jugs—who invented the form, what they signify and their probable roots in the Congo. This week, I brought him a jug so he could sculpt the face. This child who supposedly has attention & behavior problems focused on the project peacefully for two hours solid. #Clay is the way.
@potterybyosa wonderful!
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I’ve been given the opportunity to work with a special needs kid one-on-one and I’m teaching him #BlackHistory through claywork. Last week we discussed the history behind Southern face jugs—who invented the form, what they signify and their probable roots in the Congo. This week, I brought him a jug so he could sculpt the face. This child who supposedly has attention & behavior problems focused on the project peacefully for two hours solid. #Clay is the way.
This is fantastic.
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I’ve been given the opportunity to work with a special needs kid one-on-one and I’m teaching him #BlackHistory through claywork. Last week we discussed the history behind Southern face jugs—who invented the form, what they signify and their probable roots in the Congo. This week, I brought him a jug so he could sculpt the face. This child who supposedly has attention & behavior problems focused on the project peacefully for two hours solid. #Clay is the way.
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I’ve been given the opportunity to work with a special needs kid one-on-one and I’m teaching him #BlackHistory through claywork. Last week we discussed the history behind Southern face jugs—who invented the form, what they signify and their probable roots in the Congo. This week, I brought him a jug so he could sculpt the face. This child who supposedly has attention & behavior problems focused on the project peacefully for two hours solid. #Clay is the way.
@potterybyosa This is so cool!
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I’ve been given the opportunity to work with a special needs kid one-on-one and I’m teaching him #BlackHistory through claywork. Last week we discussed the history behind Southern face jugs—who invented the form, what they signify and their probable roots in the Congo. This week, I brought him a jug so he could sculpt the face. This child who supposedly has attention & behavior problems focused on the project peacefully for two hours solid. #Clay is the way.
@potterybyosa I'm glad for both of you.
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I’ve been given the opportunity to work with a special needs kid one-on-one and I’m teaching him #BlackHistory through claywork. Last week we discussed the history behind Southern face jugs—who invented the form, what they signify and their probable roots in the Congo. This week, I brought him a jug so he could sculpt the face. This child who supposedly has attention & behavior problems focused on the project peacefully for two hours solid. #Clay is the way.
@potterybyosa This is beautiful and heartwarming. Thank you for sharing this with us all.
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I’ve been given the opportunity to work with a special needs kid one-on-one and I’m teaching him #BlackHistory through claywork. Last week we discussed the history behind Southern face jugs—who invented the form, what they signify and their probable roots in the Congo. This week, I brought him a jug so he could sculpt the face. This child who supposedly has attention & behavior problems focused on the project peacefully for two hours solid. #Clay is the way.
@potterybyosa
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I’ve been given the opportunity to work with a special needs kid one-on-one and I’m teaching him #BlackHistory through claywork. Last week we discussed the history behind Southern face jugs—who invented the form, what they signify and their probable roots in the Congo. This week, I brought him a jug so he could sculpt the face. This child who supposedly has attention & behavior problems focused on the project peacefully for two hours solid. #Clay is the way.
@potterybyosa Nice project.
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I’ve been given the opportunity to work with a special needs kid one-on-one and I’m teaching him #BlackHistory through claywork. Last week we discussed the history behind Southern face jugs—who invented the form, what they signify and their probable roots in the Congo. This week, I brought him a jug so he could sculpt the face. This child who supposedly has attention & behavior problems focused on the project peacefully for two hours solid. #Clay is the way.
This is great.
IMHO ADHD "medication" is a way of poisoning kids to make them fit into an inflexible, cold and harsh system.
Take the kids out of the pressure chamber and they learn how to relax and focus, and feel good about themselves. -
This is great.
IMHO ADHD "medication" is a way of poisoning kids to make them fit into an inflexible, cold and harsh system.
Take the kids out of the pressure chamber and they learn how to relax and focus, and feel good about themselves.@Captain_Jack_Sparrow @potterybyosa Adderall's the closest thing to legal meth. Let that sink in for a bit. The closest thing to legal meth, is being marketed as a way for people with ADHD to keep focus, when the actual illicit drug which is its closest counterpart, is known to cause anxiety in its users among other things.
We as a society, sold the closest legal counterpart to meth, a drug whose side effects include anxiety, as a way to help people with ADHD focus, people...
And that's not counting how antipsychotics have been prescribed in the past as a way to calm people on the autism spectrum down, when those do way more harm than good in hindsight.
One-on-one pottery lessons as shown by Osa here, or even drawing, painting, papercrafts, even just open-ended sensory play in a mud puddle in the yard or a sandpit for that matter, just any sort of creative play in general, it doesn't have to just be pottery, are going to do better for neurodivergent people, that is to include both autistic people and people with ADHD, than any sort of drugs ever will.
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I’ve been given the opportunity to work with a special needs kid one-on-one and I’m teaching him #BlackHistory through claywork. Last week we discussed the history behind Southern face jugs—who invented the form, what they signify and their probable roots in the Congo. This week, I brought him a jug so he could sculpt the face. This child who supposedly has attention & behavior problems focused on the project peacefully for two hours solid. #Clay is the way.
I learned today that my 12 y.o. student doesn’t know basic color theory. He couldn’t tell me which colors to mix to make pink, for instance. He remembered that it has been introduced when he was little, but he’d “never seen it in action,” as he put it. He never had art class.
It came up because he got to decorate his face jug with underglaze colors today. I used it as an opportunity to demo color mixing. Can’t wait to show you all the end result! But yeah… the state of public ed is appalling.
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