Perhaps it is because of my love for the relaxed pace of summer that I struggle to change gears this time of year. And perhaps it may be simply that I spent a lot of time in school learning to be a physician that I am aware of what one "signs on" for in our current system of learning. Either way, I see great value in all the unstructured learning that happens over summer vacation.

Sir Ken Robinson is an innovative "creativity expert" and has challenged many of the ways we educate our children.  There are so many ways that people learn. And Sir Robinson wants us to think about each one ofthem. He asks us as parents to pay attention to how our children learn and what matters most in developing that individual learning style.

He has story after story to share in which we are encouraged to trade places with our children as they learn, and we are asked to see their education as a crucial part of our parenting.  Creativity and learning...it might just be the thing to drag me off of summer vacation and back into the classroom.