March 2011
23 posts
“Gentleness, patience, and love, are almost everything in education; especially...”
– from The Mother’s Book, by Lydia Maria Child, published in 1831.
I can’t remember how I came upon this old child-rearing book but I am totally fascinated by it. Of course it’s outdated and quaint and sometimes totally un-PC, but it’s also earnest, and I’m finding so...
“Your child(ren) will change many times while growing up. And if you have more than one, they’ll all change in drastically different ways. You’ll find that the things that seem so fraught when they’re young are completely forgotten later. There will be times your strategies will work and you’ll have that peaceful trip to Target you were hoping for. But plenty of times it’ll go horribly...
no photos from the weekend but I still wanted to share some highlights:
after grocery shopping saturday morning, I pulled into a new-ish bakery on a whim, to check it out. they were just pulling out fresh chocolate almond croissants from the oven. piping hot. the stuff of dreams, I tell you. I shared mine with david, we listened to npr, and he fell asleep in the car on the way home. bliss!
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