Loving and Learning in the Nest
Over the past few years, I've struggled to find great fairy tale collections for Miss H and I to read together. Some are just too hard, muddled in difficult language and events that were actually designed to be related to adults and not children. Some are too soft, filled with flowery language and overly-watered plots. That "just right" book, though, has been illusive. For year 1, we used Fairy Read More
In my last post, I talked about how I'm learning to recognize living board books for babies and toddlers. This can be so challenging! This post will share some of our favorite board books with you. Or, as I've alternately titled this post: In which I vulnerably share our bookshelves. This is hard for me, mamas! People have strong opinions about whether or not a book is living. You might Read More
This is a topic that I constantly skirt around: living books for babies and toddlers. It's a bit easier to decide what a living book looks like for older children, when they're wrapped in beautiful language and the ideas get our children talking. But what about the littlest ones? Sometimes books for this age group are a little too silly; sometimes they don't have much going on. How are we to tell Read More
