Even in these harried and hurried days, a child still unfolds slowly. And so it can take years for a child to know how to become a respectful friend and confidant of fire. There’s the crux of knowing good wood when you find it. The sharp sound of it snapping. The smell of it. The […]
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Overparenting and social monoculture
Parenting implodes in a social monoculture. The social ecology we’ve depended on as parents until recently, is today many times frail and tattered. There is little social cohesion around our homes, few of us have a living community in which to plant our children. In a few generations, the communal life that held our children […]