"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table, while a sweet-voiced teacher suggests that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow out of strips of coloured paper, or plant straw trees in bead flower-pots. Such teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of, before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experience." -- Anne Sullivan

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Canobie Lake Park

What a blast!!! We went to Canobie Lake Park on Windham Town Day.
We went for the first half of the day, from 11-2. Ben and Hannah rode rides and we all splashed at Castaway Island, the water park. OMG!! Ben found a new passion, waterslides!! I wish I had snapped some pictures at the water park, but I had Hannah clinging to me and couldn't bring my camera in the water. Ben was begging for me to take his picture!!!
Anyway, I had to go to work for a few hours in the afternoon. I picked up the kids, we ate dinnera and got Ed, and went back to close the park!! What a blast!!!
We rode a few rides together as a family, and B and H rode their favorites again.
At 10pm we left. Tired, giggly, and ready to go back again :~)










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Reading Material

  • Parenting A Free Child: An Unschooled Life by Rue Kream
  • The Tao of Pooh
  • Herbal Remedies for Children's Health by Rosemary Gladstar
  • The Well Adjusted Child by Rachel Gathercole
  • Living Simply With Children by Marie Sherlock