I am a book crier. My first time reading Andrew Peterson’s The Monster in the Hollows, I was pregnant, and ugly crying so hard my husband didn’t know what to […]
Gradual Emancipation: A Parent’s Sacrifice
From the moments they begin to crawl and take their first steps, they are inching into a broader world. The first time they take the spoon and go after the […]
Learning to Give Space for Imagination
Each night after supper, we gather our three toddlers, lace up our sneakers, and walk down to the old railroad tracks. My husband pushes the twins in our double stroller […]
Teach Us To Play
I’m scrambling up the climbing wall behind my four-year-old. It’s Wednesday morning at 9:47 AM. Two nannies and a clutch of coffee cup cradling moms-with-toddlers are glancing nervously at the […]
Through the Looking Glass of Early Reading
“Have you read The Wizard of Oz?” “Yes, Dad read it to me a long time ago.” “What about Alice in Wonderland?” “Yes, I listened on audio book.” “Well… what […]