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The Facts of Life

Wednesday Jan 02 2008

By Shae Hadden | Bio

One of my New Year traditions is to clean up some of the papers that have accumulated around me over the past year. Yesterday, I came across these “Facts of Life” that someone had given me and thought they were worth sharing. Unlike the ‘facts of life’ we normally think about (like ‘the birds and the bees’, death and taxes), these seem fitting for the beginning of a new year, especially since they actually challenge us to look at ourselves and others in a whole new way.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Learning

Tagged with: assessment learning life truth

Act Your Age!

Tuesday May 01 2007

By Shae Hadden
Bio

I’m pondering this throw-away comment, something I’ve heard countless times before and never really thought about. What do we really mean when we say someone isn’t ‘acting their age’? In effect, we’re judging whether their actions are ‘normal’ and ‘acceptable’—as compared to the majority of people of that same chronological age in our society. But our assessments are neither true, nor false. They are simply our perspective, our evaluation, of what we perceive.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: age assessment behavior judgment possibility