Parenting Passages

I'm hoping to have a new post ready for next week.  Instead, please enjoy a few articles worth your time.  Also consider reading past articles or catching up on past posts.  Thank you!

Parenting's We Can't Make Our Children Happy from Flying Solo

Little Shoulder's - Kids are supposed to be kids & you can't expect them to think as adults.

Wonder why anyone home schools?  Contemplating home school?  Why Do You Home School?  Everyone should read this.  I truly enjoyed reading this.

From Are We Wringing the Creativity Out Of Kids
Lehrer elaborated: “What she means by that is that’s important to give kids a menu of possibilities pretty early on, a menu of things they might fall in love with—maybe it’s painting, maybe it’s drawing, maybe it’s writing, maybe it’s computer science—just a bunch of passions that they could discover. [You want them to] find these things that don’t feel like work, activities that just feel like fun. And then you have to remind them—‘OK, so you’ve found something you love, the goal you want to strive for. Now you have to work hard. Now you have to put in your thousands of hours of practice. Now you have to be willing to persevere through failure and frustrations.’”