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After 4 days of constant busyness at a conference, caring for grandkids amidst the time, caring for one who had Covid, searching for a house amidst working through details for my next visa with lawyers, walking literally 6 miles a day back and forth, I was drained to my toenails. I made a quick, wise decision and told no one. I snuck out of the house, I betook myself to a lovely breakfast in an outdoor cafe and breathed in peace and centered myself for an hour and then jumped back into the wild of life.
And finally my life began to be centered, ideas flowed and peace ruled. Take time for yourself to sit, ponder and sip.
I have gotten used to these funny looking poached eggs that are thrown into boiling water with a bit of vinegar. Today, coffee instead of tea because no restaurant does tea as well as I do!
Golden Era of Children’s Literature:
Randolph Caldecott—illustrator
Honey Cakes
But really, really, really--the key to giving your children mental muscle power and an advantage in any kind of education, is to read aloud to that child. All research complies with this, all teachers and writers say this, Clay and I say it emphatically in our own book. Read first--read daily---turn off media and put away work books and before you do anything else, read out loud to them--and read out loud to them until they are 30! Do not think that just because they can read at 6 that you should make them read to themselves and stop reading out loud. Read to them because you get to share in mentoring, discussing ideas, your vocabulary is bigger and you can explain things and they develop better skills in thinking and writing and communicating when you read out loud.
Sarah provides another peek into the benefits of reading:
“Consider that for every children’s classic written, there are countless versions of it to be found within the minds of the children who read it, and no two of them are the same. The imagination of each child is unique, creating a new image to fit the words he or she reads. Because of this, to read a story is to set in motion a swift growth of new images within the mind of a child. Every book read adds to that stock of inner imagery so that a child who is a great reader has a mind crammed with landscapes and people, trees and fairies, castles and mountains unique to his or her own thought.”
― Sarah Clarkson, Caught Up in a Story: Fostering a Storyformed Life of Great Books & Imagination with Your Children
Go read a great story today, and enjoy as your brain and your children’s brains grow stronger just by enjoying the tale.
Join me today for Tea Time Tuesday and share it with your friends. Happy Tuesday!
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