How kids learn

I've been taking a lot of pictures of my kids using Lego Mindstorms and paying attention to them while they are building and testing things out. I have this great picture of one of my kids, sprawled out on the floor, ready to test her lego car. It's so funny to me because even last year, I would have cringed when I saw the photo because that's not appropriate behavior in a classroom. It's so funny because there are all of these preconceived notions in my head about what's okay in a classroom.

I store all of these thoughts away, all the little thoughts where I start to tell a child they can't do something, ask myself why and realize that the only reason it isn't okay is because that's what I learned somewhere along the line. I've been trying to break myself of the habit of not allowing things just because that's the way it's been or that's what I learned once upon a time.