The Seasons of Our Day

Leadership education, a model of education that I follow emphasizes finding natural rhythms and patterns in your life that can help you do what comes naturally to you.  In the book called The Phases of Learning, The Demilles mention as one of the ingredients to successful Leadership Education is following the seasons of the year.

They said that they decided to heat their home with wood so that they can truly experience winter in their home.  They say that there is so much that we can learn during each season of the year and things that you learn during each season are different and contribute to a whole person.  I loved this idea.

I read another post by another girl in a facebook group that I follow.  She mentioned how she followed the seasons of the year to pattern her day.  I thought this was a great idea.  So, I pondered this thought and taught this to my family.

The Seasons of our Day:

Spring  (morning):

Words that came to my mind:
awakening,  new beginning,  planting seeds,  pulling weeds,  resurrection, spring cleaning

We decided that the morning is the time to clean,  to eliminate distractions,  to plant our seeds of learning and to study the gospel.

Summer (Mid-Afternoon):

Words that came to my mind:

Relax, free-play, outside,  keep on watering seeds that have been planted so that plants don't die

We decided that the mid-afternoon is the time to keep watering our seeds of learning,  to relax with a good book, to play and to go outside.

Fall (late afternoon):

Words that came to my mind:

Clean up leaves from Spring,  reap the rewards of our harvest, prepare for winter

The late afternoon is the time for us to clean up from the day and then we can reap the rewards of our planting during the day.  Sometimes this means play a game, play with friends,  do sports or other activities oh and get ready for the winter (dinner).

Winter (Evening):

The people that we spend our evening with are the people that we bond with.  - The Demilles

Words that came to my mind:
Holidays (family time), food, hibernate (sleep)

The evenings are our time for our family to come together and have dinner,  we read together,  watch a show together. play together,  talk about our (year) or our day together and then hibernate or go to sleep.