Note: This article first appeared at rabbitroom.com, a fantastic resource for beauty of many kinds. My brother, Orrin Sackett, was big enough to fight bears with a switch. Me, I was the skinny … Read More ...
Fostering Imagination
The Summer of my Extroverted Child
Editor’s Note: Let’s have another look at this classic summertime post from 2017. It’s a good one! I’m 45-years-old, sitting in a locked bedroom, with one towel wrapped around my body and another wrapped around my hair. I’m wearing this because I’m hiding from my extroverted child. Over the past twenty years, I have learned […]
Resources
Review: Jacob Have I Loved, by Katherine Paterson
Anyone who has grown up as a sibling knows there is emotional processing that continually goes on as each sibling deals with the attentions, or lack of attentions, of others. Sibling rivalry and jealousy are natural things. I see it in my children as they fight for the front seat of the car. I see […]
Warren & the World
The Warren & the World Vol 7, Issue 31
One of my favorite books got reviewed at Story Warren this week. It’s a beautiful look at a relationship between siblings. If you’ve got sibling children in your life, they might be a little young for Jacob Have I Loved, but maybe you need to give it another read. Check out Aimee’s review below and remember […]
For Kids
Shadow Play
When twilight to the window creeps And starlight, here and there, Is seen against the night-time’s dark That spreads now up the stair; ‘Tis at that time when children rest All snuggled in their beds That shadows come to dance among The stars and maple-heads. In day’s cold light the shadows hide About the […]