Our Second Grade School Day
The house wakes early, even in the dark. Partly because kids are insane, and partly because I have a puppy, which is another story. In any case, by 6:30am the dog is pooping, Boots is …
Tag: boundaries
They Have to Accommodate
Kids’ needs and wishes matter. Their creativity, their malleability, their resilience, their openness — those aspects of their character matter, a lot.
I Don’t Go in for Hierarchy
I’ve been reading the first few chapters of Touching Heaven the last few days, and there’s something in it that sticks in my craw. In a word, it’s hierarchy. The book is about Orthodox Christianity, …
Self-assertion Started It
On page 11, the Oxford summarized the book of Genesis this way: “Genesis … contains two major parts: the primeval history … which tells how human self-assertion brought the world to the brink of destruction; and the history of Israel’s ancestors.”