Evie Minton
Bio
Writing has always been a main outlet for me. I generally write stories from my own experiences, but also love a good writing prompt. I have indigenous Sámi roots and I’m a teacher and nature lover, so these topics often inspire my writing.
Stories (5/0)
Diary of a Rescued Ragdoll
August 25th 2019 I’m beginning to wonder if this is what my whole life will be like, inside this small room with just a blanket to lay on. Last week, I still had siblings. My mother was taken from the room the week before that, and then slowly, one by one, my siblings also went away, aside from Crumpet and Snowball who went together. Now it’s just me in this tiny room. Sometimes the smallest human visits me to play or snuggle, but they don’t stay long. My whole life I have wondered what is out there. Why can’t I go? This is boring and I have no one to play with. Guess I’ll take a nap.
By Evie Mintonabout a year ago in Petlife
Gifts From My Ancestors
Every night at midnight, the purple clouds came out to dance with the blushing sky. I remember when I first saw them. I was 8 years old and my Mother and I still lived in Sápmi, traveling with and tending to our reindeer herd across the tundra. I had woken suddenly from a deep sleep that night, and felt an unsettling feeling wash over me.
By Evie Mintonabout a year ago in Earth
Changing the World One Privileged White 4 Year Old at a Time
For nine years I have been a professional preschool teacher in a predominantly rich white neighborhood, in a predominantly rich white school in a predominantly rich white city. Families cross their fingers, with white knuckles, in hopes that they get on the waiting list in time, and then they pay the equivalent of a college tuition for their kids to enroll. The school is inspired by the teaching approach used in preschools in the city of Reggio Emilia, Italy. In Reggio Emilia, it’s the culture to take kids seriously and acknowledged them as capable, competent citizens who have a desire to learn and share ideas. The curriculum is emergent, child-led and play-based, and the environment is engaging and simple, with open-ended items set out for kids to build ideas off of, at whatever pace they need, as they discover who they are and what interests them, with the freedom and resources provided by their caregivers to pursue those interests. Nature, science, social-emotional, literary and art materials, among other things, are set out as suggestions for kids to explore, manipulate, talk about, and build off of using their imagination. The point of this method is to acknowledge and welcome the fact that all kids, like adults, are different, therefore they have different needs, interests and gifts, and that our differences are what make us human. This philosophy, in itself, creates a culture of inclusion, not only for the kids, but for the people whose paths they cross, their educators and their families. It taught me to see children as the competent, capable individuals that they are.
By Evie Minton2 years ago in Humans