The Children’s Adventure That Refuses to Choose Between Screens, Nature, Magic and History
Adults often divide children’s interests into categories that children themselves do not recognize. Video games belong to screen time, outdoor activities belong to healthy living, books belong to education, fantasy belongs to imagination, and history belongs to school. Yet a child’s imagination rarely operates with those boundaries. A boy can spend an hour building something […]
Why Children May Learn More About History When Nobody Tells Them They Are Learning
One of the persistent challenges in children’s education is not a shortage of information. Young people have access to more facts, videos, explanations, and digital resources than any generation before them. The harder challenge is getting them to care long enough for information to become meaningful. History can be especially difficult because children are often […]
When a Bedtime Story Opens a Door to Adventure: The Family Heart Behind The Secret Adventures of Preston and Bowie
Some children’s stories begin with a big plan. Others begin with something much smaller and more important: a child asking for one more story before bed. That is part of the story behind Margaret Renda Adler’s The Secret Adventures of Preston and Bowie – Daniel Boone’s Cabin. Adler writes in the book’s acknowledgment that the […]