“It’s just that if you’re not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly.” Robert Adamson, Australian poet “Disruptive” sounds like something that needs to be disciplined. It’s not a very […]
Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin
We read lots of historical fiction to our children. Most books were good at imparting information, some were rich in explanation, some filled us with inspiration, but only a few […]
Use Their Imagination
[I]magination has the property of magical expansion; the more it holds the more it will hold. ~ Charlotte Mason, Towards a Philosophy of Education, 1925 It’s easy to make the mistake of […]
Imagionality: Understanding Your Child’s Imaginative Personality
A foreword of forewarning: This post is a bit longer than I usually write. I hope you will indulge my windiness. The ideas just couldn’t contain themselves in an economy […]
The Cost of a Creative Child
It’s been a while since I could write for the Story Warren because of our conferences. My mind is still a big puddle of gray goo because of them, so […]