That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. ― F. Scott Fitzgerald When I was growing up, my neighborhood library held the “Super Summer Reading Program.” I so fondly recall weekly trips to the library with …
Category: Building a Positive Family Environment Tags: Creativity, Experiencing nature with children, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Family, Family rituals, Joseph Cornell, Last Child in the Woods, Nature deficit disorder, Parenting books, Parenting strategies, Richard Louv
Your children are not your children They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself… You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923 Parenting in the year 2013 is a great balancing act. We know that the fear …
Category: Building a Positive Family Environment, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Alfie Kohn, Choices, Confidence, Edward Ryan, Family, Helicopter parent, Lev Vygotsky, Motivation, Parent, Responsible decision-making
If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. ― Mahatma Gandhi All children have to deal with and understand the paradox of separateness and connection, of individuality and belonging. In utero, babies have no sense of separation. They are physically connected to Mom through the very liquid …
Category: Modeling Social and Emotional Skills, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Bullying, Classroom, Education, Family, Friendship, Home, Parent, Preschool education, Self awareness, Self-management, Social awareness
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in the movement there is life, and in change there is power. – Alan Cohen How …
