How do you help a teenager express his big ideas about the world without squashing his individuality? How do you parent without pushing? I’m thinking about these questions and the 392 related questions too much lately. I started exploring my thoughts for my latest DotMoms post, but I think I’m just nibbling on the corner of the cheese there. It’s a 50 lb. wedge.
"In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly for the stillness and longer nights of autumn and winter before any thought will subside; we are sensible that behind the rustling leaves, and the stacks of grain, and the bare clusters of the grape, there is the field of a wholly new life, which no man has lived; that even this earth was made for more mysterious and nobler inhabitants than men and women. In the hues of October sunsets, we see the portals to other mansions than those which we occupy."
~Henry David Thoreau
Stories We Need to Know: Reading Your Life Path in Literature by my dear friend Allan Hunter who happens to also be married to my dear, dear, dear friend Cathy Bennett. This one is next on my list!
October 17th, 2006 at 3:44 pm
I know you’re tackling the serious stuff here, but while I’m trying to lose weight I practically swoon at the mention of cheese, I’m pretty much going to pass out contemplating just how wonderful a fifty pound wedge would be all to myself with home-made pickles and stoneground mustard…
I check out your blended with salt blog pretty often, but I have never gone to the Dotmoms blog…I’m not sure why. Is it the same as Blended with salt? I’ll go find out now.
October 17th, 2006 at 9:38 pm
I am SO in the middle of this right now. Heading over to dotmoms to read your brilliance.
October 18th, 2006 at 5:47 am
It’very hard to parent a child without pushing, but still it’s possible to lessen this pressure!!! It depends on parents and their love to their child!!! As for the explanation how the world works, I think that the best teacher and explanator life is!!!
October 26th, 2006 at 7:24 am
Didn’t you think that blogging is also a way of teaching?If considering that blogs are like an attendance to a psychologist. I think it also develops the under-age children, as in blogs is often raised the idea about complexes or difficulties of this age. I have another method of development. It is a simple way. You just take some smart thoughts, quotations, as here and start commenting them. According the idea of Mark Twain - “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter”, it is the problem of every self-to learn or not to learn.