“My ‘a’ looks terrible,” my six-year-old mumbled during our handwriting lesson. Failure. It’s something none of us enjoys. But it’s something we all experience often, especially when we are learning a new skill. How do our children respond to failure? In his talk “Critic to Curator,” author S. D. Smith explains the difference between posture […]

The opinion we form of any book is greatly determined by the expectations we bring to it. This is apparent from the hundreds of online reviews I’ve read of The Green Ember.  In this review, I’ll share how I discovered the book and how my expectations were set. I’ll share the strengths of the story […]