A Work in Progress
June 6, 2017
“It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.” – Adlai E. Stevenson
Category: parenting philosophy
And Then She Was One
March 29, 2017
“The littlest feet make the biggest footprints in our hearts.”
Life In Transition
February 27, 2017
“The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place” ~ Barbara De Angelis
Be A Failure
December 27, 2016
“Failure is the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely.” – Henry Ford
My Last Baby
September 22, 2016
“But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after – oh, that’s love by a different name. She is the babe you hold in your arms for an hour after she’s gone to sleep.” ~Barbara Kingslover
The Scheduled Child vs The Beauty of Boredom
August 4, 2016
“Variety’s the very spice of life, that gives it all it’s flavor.” ~William Cowper
The Importance of a Cousin
July 18, 2016
“Little kids love their cousins. Cousins are like celebrities for little kids. If little kids had a People magazine, cousins would be on the cover.” ~Jim Gaffigan
The Art of Strewing: An Unschooling Mom’s Secret Weapon
June 24, 2016
“Unschooling recognizes that what schools see as learning is really just a small fraction of what there is to discover in life. Learning takes a lifetime, and the order and manner of gaining knowledge is not as important as making and reaching goals.” ~Aadel Bussinger
The Magic of the Mind Jar
June 19, 2016
“Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.” ~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Homeschooling and Housekeeping
June 8, 2016
“Cleaning your house while children are growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.” ~Phyllis Diller
