I stumbled onto a post on Reddit last week where a dad was really struggling with how to teach his four-year-old about death. She had just really begun to understand the concept, and now was understandably worried that she was going to die, that her parents were going to die, and so on. Lots of other Redditors chimed in sharing…
Category: Mothering
Another pre-k printable.
John’s New Coat ““ 8-page minibook,16 word flashcards (752kb PDF) (Note that the pages are out of order on the PDF so that they will print in order after they’re folded.) So this is probably becoming obvious, but I really like putting together my own little bits of curriculum to use in school with E. First there was the Twinkle…
A girl named Elsie.
I’m very sorry to say that the first time I read the Elsie Dinsmore books was just this summer. I say “sorry,” because I rather would have liked the experience of reading them as a child, along with Anne Shirley, Laura Ingalls, and Jo March–the Elsie stories are so very similar to these which I’ve known so much longer, and…