5 Ways to Develop Healthy Imagination In Your Kids
A student with a healthy imagination, who looks at the world around him with awe and wonder and joy will naturally become creative, thoughtful, and hard working.
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A Liturgy for When the House Feels Too Full of Children
You, also, were a child once.
A boy with skinned knees, a growling belly,
a need for snuggles and snacks.
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I Am the Captain of My Soul, and Other Lies We’ve Believed
While I sympathize with the sentiment to try to conquer whatever circumstances are currently befalling us, we are still at the mercy of the tides.
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From the Team: What We Learned from Dad
As we head into the weekend, the Story Warren team wanted to pause for a minute to appreciate dads. Here are a few snippets of things we learned from ours.
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The Gift of an Unscheduled Summer
I believe we parents just as much need a break from all our shuttling back and forth, from all our spinning plates (or at least from a few of them). Because our kids aren’t the only ones who need a chance to dream, to imagine, and to just be.
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The Kinds of Summer Moms
Whether you homeschool or your kids attend school outside the home, summer usually presents a change in schedule. Over my years of parenting, I’ve observed a broad range of approaches to the summer shift.
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The Difficulty of Play
Hopefully, as our children grow, they’ll learn from our model and begin to bear the curse by sacrificing their own energy, time, or preferences for their sibling or friend.Â
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Two Poems for the Moms
In the wake of a no-doubt busy weekend and Mother’s Day in the middle of it, I wanted to pass along two of my favorite motherhood poems to you.
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From the Team: What We Learned from Mom
As we head into the weekend, the Story Warren team wanted to pause for a minute to appreciate moms. Here are a few snippets of things we learned from ours.
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We Are All George
There are plenty of imitators, but we go for the real George, the George created and written by H. A. and Margaret Rey.Â
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A Better Motto Than Live, Laugh, Love
To be filled with wonder, we must first be humble creatures who believe it worth our time to bend low to examine this world, to get into the grit of it, and see it for what it truly is
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I Will Most Gladly
Rather than being in danger of losing myself as I served my family, I usually faced the opposite danger of holding myself back, of measuring out my service.
