Archive for December 2023

“I think that children like mishaps, especially when they occur to the grown-ups.”
—Helen Oxenbury

What kind of mishap might a child find amusing or validating or simply interesting.

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“Some days, doing ‘the best we can’ may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn’t perfect—on any front—and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.”—Fred Rogers

Whew! What a wonderful reminder. For us as well as the children for whom we’re writing!

What might “doing the best we can” and still falling short might look like for a four-year-old? A five-year-old? Another age?

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“This is the way we wash our hands,
Wash our hands, wash our hands,
This is the way we wash our hands
So early in the evening.”
—Children’s song/nursery rhyme

What does “washing hands” make you think about? Write about it—from any point of view or perspective you choose.

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At this age [3–4] children need to begin to experience that they “live in a body.”
—Waldorf Games Handbook for the Early Years

What do you think could help children understand the body in which they live? Write about that.

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