One day，I was teaching my daughter how to paint．I saw that a lot of her energy went into（41）___her brush into the paint，and then into a bowl of water．But then most of the paint that was on the（42）___would just disappear in the water．As an （43）___ mother，I was thinking，"I am trying to teach you how to paint on paper and what are you doing？This is not what you are （44）___ to do．You have to do this way．"

But she is three years old so she is probably not going to （45）___doing it the right way．She had so much （46）___dipping the brush in the paint and in the water bowl．Pretty much within an hour，most of the paint was all over the room and I just sat there with my hands （47）___my head thinking，"Oh my god，this girl is hopeless．"Soon after，however，she shouted，"Mama，when I （48）___pink and blue，it turns purple!"

I was surprised．（49）___I was thinking that she was wasting perfectly good paint and paper，she（50）___learned something．What would have been a very theoretical（理论的） experiment turned into a very （51）___experiment．

I am a designer and work with software like Photoshop and Illustrator．When my daughter sees me work on the （52）___，she is always very curious and she wants to work with me on the same thing that I do．She starts to （53）___with buttons，and in that process sometimes lands up （54）___me things!There will be many times when she will find （55）___ new．I will ask her （56）___，and she will tell me，"I pressed this，and I pressed this，and then this happened．"

One of the things I realized from this is that everyone has a（n） （57）___way of learning things．When I was growing up，I （58）___ to literature very well，so everything that was turned into a story became my way of learning and （59）___different concepts．Some kids understand through art，some understand through math and games，and it's the job of a parent or a teacher to watch and （60）___how children learn and try their best to make these experien