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How Schools Kill Creativity by Ken Robinson
My all-time favorite TED talk– a classic. You may have already seen it (it has nearly 18 million hits!) but if not, it’s worth watching. Ken Robinson is a funny speaker with deeply profound things to say about educating our children. If you have a few minutes to watch, click -
The Letting Go…
This article by Michael Gerson was so beautifully written it made me cry! He writes about the heartbreak of dropping his child off at college. I have felt this heartbreak so many times with my own children–and they’re only 7 and 9! I call it the “cruel dialectic of parenting.” -
Cultivating Compassion while Keeping the Spunk
This blog post is a combination of one I wrote in 2007 and I finished in 2013. It’s kind of awesome to have 6 years between starting and finishing… My three-year-old daughter just took a parasol out of her baby brother’s hand. I say, “Miss Annabelle, you can not take -
Mystery: The Case of the Chocolate Footprints
Today there was a mystery in my house, and we love a good mystery around here. If we can’t find one, we create one. For example: The Case of the Missing Car Keys, The Case of Mama’s Missing Cell Phone, The Case of the Little Lizard in the Paintbrush Drawer… -
Excellent reasons to Swim in the Sea…As if we needed more…
We love taking the kids to swim in the ocean. We knew it was the best “school” for their early years, where everything they learn is through their senses. What better place to explore science, nature, environment, and get exercise too? But here are even more reasons to take a -
Can Emotional Intelligence Be Taught?
I loved this article: Can Emotional Intelligence Be Taught? I’m always fascinated by methods of teaching children empathy, kindness, and emotional intelligence. I have loved experimenting with how to teach my own children how to look around at the world to see how they can help others–those smaller, more vulnerable, -
A Toddler’s Fashion Crisis
Ahh, getting dressed. That age-old ritual. I wonder how it was in caveman times: “Honey? Do you want to wear the fig leaf or the buffalo skin loin cloth today?” Did two-year-old cavebabies shout “No!” at their mothers and throw their bamboo leaf underwear across the cave? Or were they -
“Healing Stories for Challenging Behavior”
When my daughter was two, she came to me crying. “I want to go home,” she hiccuped out of the blue. “We are home,” I said, getting on my knees so I could give her a proper hug. “No,” she wailed, “Our other home.” Ah, the home we left after -
Making Baby’s First Food Fabulous
It’s no secret that I love a party. My sister always teases me about the fact that I use any excuse to create one: “Oh, it’s a full moon! Let’s have a party!; Oh my lily is blooming, let’s have a party!!; Oh my roses need ladybugs, let’s have a