Business Of Architecture Podcast

This morning my 7-year old daughter showed me a drawing that she did of a ‘remote control doll.' Apparently this is what 7-year-old girls like to think about. On one side of the page she drew a picture of the remote, complete with a viewing screen, speaker and microphone so she could talk through the doll. On the reverse side of the page, she had a picture of the back of the doll with an outlet in her head (for charging my daughter told me). Drawing of the ‘rumote cuncurll' Drawing of the doll. Notice the power outlet in the back of the doll's head for charging. You'll notice that she's misspelled a lot of the words. ‘Rumote' instead of ‘remote.' ‘Toc' instead of ‘talk.' ‘Cis' instead of ‘kiss.' At first I was troubled that my daughter who is 7 years old doesn't know how to spell simple words like ‘kiss' and ‘talk.' Then I remembered that she's only 7 years old, and the way that she's going to learn to spell more words is by actually trying! Interesting – the way we grow and progress is by actually doing st