Breaking from our usual nature outings, we ventured into the heart of the city to experience Olvera Street, the birth place of the city of Los Angeles. What a blessing to be able to take our babies, toddlers, five year olds, eight year olds; all ages alike, on an off day of the week, without […]
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Happy Thanksgiving! I hope this Thanksgiving, perhaps through literature or poetry alongside our family experiences, we are able to share a living idea with our children. the dead yet speak their living thoughts in the work they have left us, and by which as by links of an endless chain all men are bound to
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“This fine Maple, with its hard wood, its beautiful autumnal colors- red and yellow and orange- and its sweet sap, is the close western relative of the famed Sugar Maple of the eastern states. If it were as abundant as the true Sugar Maple and grew as accessibly, it would doubtless be an important hardwood
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As soon as he is able to keep it himself, a nature-diary is a source of delight to a child. Every day’s walk gives him something to enter: three squirrels in a larch tree, a jay flying across such a field, a caterpillar climbing up a nettle, a snail eating a cabbage leaf, a spider
Have you ever worried about the phantom “holes” in your child’s education? You know, the important lessons, connections and facts that we might miss by not using the nationally sanctioned public school curriculum? I especially worried about these “holes” when I realized my six year old didn’t know the days of the week in the