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Idleness as a way of parenting.
I couldn't agree more. I run an award-winning web site for kids, Inkless Tales, at www.inklesstales.com - endorsed by the ALA, the Encyclopedia Britannica, and RIF - heavy hitters - and the site is all designed for learning - but the site is all rigorously tested first. By kids. For fun. My own kids? We have ''do-nothing'' days. Lots ...
Posted to Family by inklesstales on April 21, 2009
In An Unorthodox Move, Grandpa Proves The Existence of Santa
All the glum economic talk is enough to make us want to fold up our Christmas trees and forget about the holidays. I've been thinking, though, about my grandparents, who lived in a kind of permanent recession, which raising nine kids will do. There was never enough money to go around, needless to say. In the early years they farmed, and later ...
Posted to Culturebox by Gayle Mattern on December 24, 2008