I don’t think this book can help me. I might be interested in a companion volume, however. Something along the lines of Surviving with Children Who Think For Themselves. Or, Raising Children Who Aren’t So Dang Sure of Themselves. Or, say, Raising Children Who Think for Themselves but Will Occasionally Toy With the Idea That Their [...]

“Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located within the same individual.” –Arthur Koestler Interesting, huh? What does it mean to you?

I’d planned to post monthly on what has me all atwitter, but somehow October slipped by. Which just means more to share for November… a new camera. Finally. Our camera broke right after I started this blog. I’ve been making do with Lulu’s none-too-fancy point-and-shoot. But when you read blogs with gorgeous photos like Uncommon Grace, [...]

Stole this button from my friend Emily. Cause that’s what friends are for. Check out what she did with it. I’m proud to have friends who do such noble work. My focus for this blog is learning and creativity. I’ve never planned to discuss politics here. But listening to our next president’s acceptance speech the [...]

It’s Election Day: vote, vote, vote! (Not that you can vote three times. But it’s a day for emphasis.) I’m still recuperating from last week. That last week of October always does me in. Two kids with birthdays, including one on Halloween. Oh, and there’s that Halloween thing too. If you remember how sappy I [...]

I bought this book to allay my Waldorf guilt. I wanted to be sure I was doing crafty, Waldorf-y activities with my little guy before he gets too big. (And if you read my last post, you know how sentimental I am about that.)  See all those little tabs sticking out of the book? Those are [...]