M is having a blast looking at all the flowers that have sprung up everywhere now, and she is eagerly awaiting sprouts in her own garden. We recently checked out Wildflowers Around the Year by Hope Ryden and M loved looking through it. If she had it in her hands I knew I’d be called [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Non-fiction Monday: Wildflowers Around the Year
Posted in Non-Fiction Monday, tagged children's books, science, wildflowers on April 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Baby and Toddler Picture Book Favorites
Posted in Uncategorized on April 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
C is a very tactile child. She wants to touch everything, pick it up, examine it from all sides, then pull it apart and examine the pieces. Then she wants to taste it. She loves books with flaps and textures, and it is not uncommon to see her rub a textured patch [...]
Poetry Friday: The Land of Counterpane
Posted in Poetry Friday on April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When I was little, Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Land of Counterpane was one of my favorite poems. I loved the idea of creating a whole world on your bed. When I was seven I got a high antique rope bed that had been in my family for several generations. I loved it and when I [...]
Respectful Parenting, Part 3
Posted in parenting, tagged parenting, respectful parenting, gentle parenting, mindful parenting on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »
I’d been searching for a better discipline system for months, doing lots of reading of parenting books and trying to find the right way to deal with behavioral problems without getting too angry or being too permissive. I kept questing for the perfect system, to me nothing would be more perfect than to [...]
Will you make me a flattie?
Posted in parenting on April 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Conversation with M a few mornings ago:
M: “Mom, are you going to make me a flattie like you said you would?”
Me: “A what?”
M (Looking very annoyed and raising the tone of her voice): “You know one of those things. A flattie.
I thought for awhile about any conversations we’d had about breakfast. Then I [...]
Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves by Naomi Aldort
Posted in parenting, reading, tagged gentle parenting, parenting, respectful parenting on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Even though I’m in the middle of a few other books, I started reading Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves by Naomi Aldort when it came in the mail because I wanted to see if it would be useful, and it has been though I disagree with part of the underlying philosophy of the book. I [...]
Respectful Parenting, Part 2
Posted in parenting, tagged gentle parenting, parenting, respectful parenting on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve been wanting to write another post or several more posts about parenting but my thoughts are a jumble, and I can’t seem to organize them or focus them. I decided to just throw out a few things I’ve been reading/thinking about so here goes.
After I finished How to Talk So Kids Will [...]
Usborne Beginners: Horses and Ponies
Posted in Non-Fiction Monday, reading on April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
M is pony-crazed so we’ve read lots of books both fiction and non-fiction about horses and ponies. Horses and Ponies from the Usborne Beginners series was one of the first non-fiction titles we chose when M’s horse and pony obsession blossomed around age 3. It provides simple information about different types of horses, [...]
The Witch Family by Eleanor Estes
Posted in chapter books, reading, tagged chapter books, eleanor estes, read-alouds on April 19, 2008 | No Comments »
While looking on the library shelves for the next book in the Moffats series, we discovered The Witch Family by Eleanor Estes. In this story, two little girls who are almost seven, Amy and Clarissa, make up a pretend world based on the stories Amy’s mother tells about Old Witch. The book slides back and [...]
Poetry Friday: The Cat and the Moon by W. B. Yeats
Posted in Poetry Friday on April 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Yeats is one of my favorite poets. I love his use of language and how his words really set a mood. This is one I read to M and C after we heard an excerpt from it on the Baby Shakespeare video
The Cat and the Moon by William Butler Yeats
The cat went [...]
