Her head is tucked tight inside of one of the books we picked up from the library. As a home-school mom, I thrive on knowledge, but also the age-old education of good old-fashioned conversation. The kind people originally shared; face-to-face, one-on-one, the older teaching the younger. Because kids, if we let them, can become more than […]
When it’s Time to “Take Your Freedom”.
It’s like a wave of grief swells involuntarily in me as my nine-year-old clings to the book we are reading… Addy, an American Girl, was something I wouldn’t let my brown skinned daughter read on her own. It’s about a young child entrenched in a war for her freedom; beaten, made to eat worms. Her father and […]