From the Gingerbread House:
Naomi: "Lily, you're not talking about muffins here, this is a gingerbread house from scratch, this is hard. Remember childbirth? This is harder.
Click HERE for delightful gingerbread pictures.
There Is No Uncaring In Unschooling
"He'd fooled us. He'd been learning all along--we just hadn't been able to see it because it didn't follow from our "teaching." It came from doing, sharing, and observing, from osmotically absorbing what was around him. I recalled that he once said to Mark, who was giving him snowboard instruction, "Dad, would you stop trying to teach me and just let me learn?"
~Deborah Sutton from Three Frog Nights (Mothering Magazine, May/June 2009)
4 comments:
Oh how fun! And what an amazing link. My daughter won't build a gingerbread house with me. She thinks they are 'just too cute'. What? Since when is something too cute for my frilly princess?
I'll have to live vicariously through you. Esp. if they are harder than childbirth!
Is your girl moving out of the cute phase? Ry did that at the same age. She began to shun pink and frills - not completely, but enough to try to start looking "cool." ....sigh....
Gingerbread from scratch, I'm told, is one of the hardest things ever. I've never done it. But every time I see pictures I think I'd like to try. Then I think I'd really like to eat all that candy. Then I think, um, maybe that's not the project for me.
Katherine, I read a book to my girl the other day - The Bat-Poet. She loved the poems the bat wrote, and wanted to hear more. No cutesy, kiddy poems - she likes the smoother more grown-up cadence.
I read her some Robert Frost that she enjoyed, but I'm lost past that. We read a lot growing up, but absolutely *no* poetry.
You're very poetic, and have mentioned it several times on your blog. I was wondering if you had any good recommendations for me to read to her (or for me to read to get in the 'spirit')? She's almost five. Thank you for any help you can give me.
Hey Sarah,
Wow, let me think on that. I'll consult with some experts and get back to you. :)
love, K
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