I am reading a wonderful book right now about mothers and daughters by Lisa Graham McMinn. The writer looks at mothering from a different angle than does Sally Clarkson in her parenting books ( Seasons of a Mother’s Heart, The Mission of Motherhood). I find McMinn’s book liberating and challenging and wish I had […]
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Joy typed this review of a book she’d read (”The Tinker’s Daughter” by Wendy Lawton). Btw, Fara is Arabic for “joy”.
“My name is Fara. I read about a book titled Mary Bunyan. It’s about Mary, a blind girl, who refuses help from her family and friends. She does not change until she realizes that she […]
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“The Disappearance of Childhood” by Neil Postman. Vintage Press. 1982.
This is one pessimistic book. Like most pessimistic books, it’s also a thought provoking one.
I read Elkind’s “The Hurried Child” some years ago and it spurred me to make some decisions about the way we’d raise (and not raise) our kids. Writing from the vantage point […]
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