The benefits of young parents
Parents often exhort people in their 20s to put off responsibility. In a persistent state of childishness, the parents can see nothing […]
Book’s Worth Reading: Tasha Tudor’s A Time to Keep
Children experience a feast of the senses that becomes vanishingly rare for the adult: firsts. And these firsts come several times. There […]
Behold the Lamb of God!
In the world of the internet, like-minded people can find each other. An odd quirk of the internet is that anyone can […]
Elected officials and spouses: You get the one you deserve
People of the 21st century invest a great deal of time in discovering how other people are responsible for their ills. The […]
Who was Alice Thomas Ellis?
Alice Thomas Ellis was the penname for fiction writer and columnist Anna Haycraft. Born Anna Margaret Lindholm in 1932 in Liverpool, England, […]
Inspired by children: The Betsy-Tacy series and books about innocence
In Maud Hart Lovelace’s Betsy-Tacy series, readers encounter the embodiment of innocence. The girls—Elizabeth (“Betsy”), Anastacia (“Tacy”), and later Thelma (“Tib”)—are far […]
Participation in creation
Your life, your work, should never be negative, nor anti anything. It is — it must be! — positive, optimistic, youthful, cheerful and peaceful. […]
How to introduce poetry to young children
Many mothers have been so deformed in their imagination by brief and unpleasant encounters with modern poetry that they avoid the entire […]
Paper dolls: A whimsical pastime for little girls
Paper dolls are the kind of simple toy that makes no noise (is there a more important feature?), can be stored in […]
Practically Speaking: Making the bed in which you lie
“You’ve made your bed, now lie in it.” -English idiom On the topic of practical household activity, we previously considered a […]