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On Loneliness: A Letter to My Children

October 26, 2020 by Rebecca Reynolds 26 Comments

EDITOR’S NOTE: This very important essay first appeared on Story Warren in 2013, and it’s high time we re-visited it. I wish I could remember how many times your father has read the Narnia books to you. During those slow years when you still had time to crawl up into a lap and listen, you […]

Filed Under: Fostering Imagination, Parenting

The Summer of my Extroverted Child

August 12, 2019 by Rebecca Reynolds Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Fostering Imagination, Parenting

My Mother Practiced the Piano

February 4, 2019 by Rebecca Reynolds 23 Comments

In 1972 my mother’s piano professor failed her senior recital because she was pregnant with me. She was a married woman, and that recital was one of the best performances of her life; however, the man had a point to make. A pianist as brilliant as my mother had no business changing the diapers of […]

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The Good Old Discipline of the Audio Book

February 14, 2018 by Rebecca Reynolds 1 Comment

The lesson was forced upon me. As a working mother, I couldn’t read like I wanted to read. Awake by four-thirty or five, my day began with a mad rush to collect lunches and afterschool supplies. From eight to five, I was teaching and grading papers. From five to seven, I was carting kids around […]

Filed Under: Books, Discovering Resources

The Art of Days – Part Two

June 26, 2017 by Rebecca Reynolds Leave a Comment

It is not easy to teach children the reverence of sanctuaries or funerals. They recognize the absurdity of nylon tights, buckle shoes that pinch, and powdered people (be they sitting upright in pews or lying in their caskets). They wriggle at shushings, and readings, and ties – silly, choking things – for in those first […]

Filed Under: Fostering Imagination, Parenting

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