My perspective - Failing to learn

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Published on Friday, January 31, 2020

By Kate Jackman-Atkinson

Neepawa Banner & Press

When we’re young, failing doesn’t really bother us. Babies spend months trying to turn over, sit up, crawl, stand, walk, then run and jump. No one expects a baby to skip over this progression, we know each step is the foundation for the next. When we go to school, while we may think otherwise, we don’t know much of anything that we will spend the next 12 to 20 years mastering. We have to learn to add, subtract and multiply, to speak another language, to play an instrument or conduct a science experiment. While we may pass our tests, at the beginning, we step into the class as failures. At some point, this changes and we stop seeing failure as a sign that we’re still learning and begin to see it as something that should be avoided at all costs.  

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Right in the centre - The ‘F’ words

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Published on Friday, January 31, 2020

By Ken Waddell

Neepawa Banner & Press

In my view, there are four F words. They are Faith, Family, Friends and Finances. And they should be kept in that order.

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Friday, January 24, 2020 Rivers Banner

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Published on Friday, January 24, 2020

Get the latest news online with the Rivers Banner! Click the front page image at the bottom to see the pages from this week or take a look at the link below to flip through the whole paper on issuu.com.

This week, see the Scotties draw for next weekend and read about the Blue Crescent Hotel grand opening!

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