I bought The Creative Family by Amanda Soule a year ago when it came out, and I’ve just pulled it off the shelf again, refreshing my memory of everything I want to do with Liliana. For a peek at Amanda Soule’s lovely, thoughtful, creative blog, go here. For her other projects, click on the various […]
Language Acquisition
I’m continually amazed at the words and phrases little L. is picking up. Today, she talked on the phone with my sister Worthy, and she was having a ball responding to everything Worthy was saying. “Yeah, yeah, yeah,” she said (I’m sorry to say that she’s learned that imprecise language from me). I know little […]
Girls and Boys (At Any Age, But Especially in High School)
Okay, a full disclosure is needed here. I’m generally not fond of Y.A. books (Young Adult books, for those of you who might not know). In general, they’re scary. At least for this parent of a young girl. And I say this having taught high schoolers for eight years! I’ve found the perfect anecdote that […]
Listen!
This morning, after a breakfast of fruit, yogurt, and banana bread, Liliana reaches up and says, “Hold you?” We sit on the patio overlooking the beach and the palm trees, and she says, “Listen!” “Palm trees,” she exclaims and waves her hands back and forth. “Noisy bird,” she says. She mimics his cry. “Whoosh! Big […]
Silent Accomplices
Dan and I talked a lot this weekend about certain aspects of parenting that work much better when the parent knows him- or herself, when the parent can react to the child out of maturity, not out of anger. I’ll give a couple of examples. These happen to be (externally) good examples, but I wasn’t […]