Jul 15, 2026 | Wednesday Quotes
Time is passing. Here is a simple, specific reminder to parents of younger children: play more games with them. Now. And especially in summer. I will not be melodramatic and say “before it’s too late.” Indeed, in the most important things we can always start again, at...
Aug 13, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
By staycation I simply mean a sort of vacation done at home. It could be very short (even a day or two) or it could be a week or more. Ideally not a replacement but rather an addition to a vacation (a going way of some kind), a staycation can be an excellent...
Jul 3, 2024 | Wednesday Quotes
“We read to know that we’re not alone.” These words are attributed to C.S. Lewis, but it seems they are just from Shadowlands, a movie about him. While there is something attractive about this quotation, I’m glad that Lewis didn’t actually say it. Reading can indeed...
Aug 16, 2023 | Wednesday Quotes
‘Summer’ is a season given bounds as much by schooling, work, and vacation as by the earth’s relation to the sun. Though we have another month until the autumnal equinox, most of us experience summer as ‘done’ by around mid-August. I think it reasonable that we accept...
Aug 9, 2017 | Man of the Household, Wednesday Quotes
“And the final outcome of education, I suppose we’d say, is a single newly finished person, who is either good or the opposite.” Plato, Republic Thinking about education is one of the most central and thorny of questions for parents. This time of year is usually a...
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