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Originally this bit of The Equuschick’s brain was entitled “The Myth of the Gifted Child”, and while there is some truth in that idea because well, every child on the face of the earth has been given gifts that others lack, and anyway, “gifted” in its most commonly used form today is a Label and [...]

Six Nursery Classics, by M. V. O’Shea, illustrated by Ernest Fosbery. Boston: D. C. Heath, 1900. Includes “The House that Jack Built, Mother Hubbard and Her Dog, Courtship, Marriage, Death, and Burial of Cock Robin, The Old Woman and her Pig, Dame Wiggins of Lee, The Three Bears” Cover illustration of Mother Hubbard and Her [...]

Some days, all the small fry will wake up and toss and turn and cry between 2:30 and 3:30 am and then be up by 6:30 anyway. Some days, your husband will wake up and have to deal with piping and plumbing issues while you discover that the 3 and 2 year olds are both [...]

  The Tale of a Lucky Dog, by Beth Proper, illustrated by Fay turpin, Jolly Junior Books by Albert Whitman, copyright 1924, Sixth edition, 1931. “Let us… stray far from home to what is known as the Happy Isles of Nippon. There let us live the life of a Japanese boy, enjoy his holidays…adventures, and [...]

We live in a world where people take great pains and lots of pills to prevent babies when they don’t want them, and spare no expense to get them when they do. According to our culture, babies before you want them are an accident, mistake or crisis — a result of a birth control failure. [...]

I wrote about this first here, new education ‘guidelines’ require teachers to pull more than half of the reading assignments for high school from… what? Dickens? Austen? No, of course not. Not even Bradbury, Tolkien, Rowling, or a Stephen King. The new Common Curriculum requires that high school students read- for literature- ‘informational texts.’ Several [...]

I love you, said the DPG to Pip. I love you, too, she said back. I love JennyAnyDots,” he said. That’s funny, said Pip.  I love her, too! Yes, said the DPG.  I wish I could hug ALL of you right now. Share! Blog this! Recommend on Facebook Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Bookmark [...]

Journalists reacted with shock and outrage at the news that the Justice Department had secretly obtained months of phone records of Associated Press journalists. They could have been doing their jobs instead of working for Obama all this time, and I would feel more sympathy.  Still.  Wrong is wrong. They could start fighting back.  Maybe this [...]