“Oh, the places you’ll go!” The person who introduced me to this story was one of my biggest adult advocates. It’s the kind of “Go and be!” tale that encourages many of us to leave our nests and move out into the rest of the world to do whatever good we can. But I didn’t […]
In Search of My Mother’s Garden — Walker
From Robin Carnes and Sally Craig’s book Sacred Circles: “In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.” —Alice Walker “We might look at our mothers as our first mirrors of ourselves. What they reflected back to us about ourselves we often took as the truth. When we begin to see our mothers as real […]
Does Preschool Matter?
Provocative post from Slate: How important is preschool? If you are researching early education philosophies, not very. In work they conducted at the University of Kansas and chronicled in their book Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children, Betty Hart and Todd Risley recorded, for two-and-a-half years, a full hour of conversation every […]