When I was a child, I had a doll named Elena who lived in the space beneath a white plastic lawn chair. Every day when I came home from school, […]
My Tree and My Kids: Journaling to Capture the Wonder and Growth of Both
My Tree Journal There are five specific trees on our land–an oak, a rosebud, a crab apple, a silver maple, and a towering cottonwood–that have been singled out. Each of […]
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 […]
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