Bright Wings: Children’s Books to Make the Heart Soar

Charity Hill and Emily Sullivan discuss how fiction shapes our children's moral imagination, allowing them to explore moral choices and possibilities. Through empathy and imagination, a child can expand their moral experience. Good fictional characters make for better--more virtuous--real character!

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Charity Hill interviews Carla Galdo where they wonder about the importance that place/setting has on human character. Carla shares about the decision to move her family to a farm. They discuss picture books and novels where setting/place shapes character.

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Charity Hill reads Katherine Leaño's essay "Bloom Where You're Planted" to frame an understanding of the effect of place on character. They propose that certain things give our children the roots to grow character: geographic specificity, cultivating gratitude, familial love, and doing together the work the place "demands." Katherine draws upon Abuela by Arthur Dorros, Pop Corn and Ma Goodness by Edna Mitchell Preston, All the Places to Love by Patricia MacLachlan, and We Have Been Harmonized by Kai Strittmatter.

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Charity Hill discusses how The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom inspired her to consider the role that limits have on shaping heroic character. Can we possibly find limits liberating? How do rules help our children to identify what will make them happy? What kind of stability do limits offer? She shares some of the goals and principles of her own family life and how those priorities structure the daily details. Charity encourages you to strike out onto new paths of confidant and loving authority. Cheers to intentional parenting in 2021!

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Just how important are great book illustrations? How much do they really matter? What effect do beautiful illustrations have on my child? Enjoy the conversation between Charity Hill and Amanda Knapp as they discuss how beautiful illustrations stir imagination, desire and motivation. Notice with Charity and Amanda what makes illustrations powerful and fascinating and how to recognize such books yourself. Follow Amanda's humorous journey from non-visual , word-focused reader to a mom observing the impact of illustrations on her children. Stay tuned for outtakes at the end.

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Together with Jaclyn Ruli, Montessori educator and homeschooling supermom of six (or is it seven?!), I reflect on being a new mom and learning to choose worthwhile board books. We review some Montessorian principles about early childhood development and how they can help us think about what sort of books our children need. Jaclyn gives us encouragement to slow down and become more awake to our children in the moment. She encourages us not to "do more" but to go deeper. Here's to adventures in reading! 

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The adventure of reading begins with board books! When we begin reading to our littles, we begin to help them answer the questions "What IS?" and "Who am I?" These are the very deep questions that board books help our child to answer. Let's consider what gives our children a good grasp of what reality and who they are in it. We discuss what kind of illustrations and language are helpful to our littlest children. What are the images and words which will begin to shape Baby's narrative?

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Welcome to Bright Wings: Children’s Books to Make the Heart Soar! Have you ever wondered what makes a book worth reading? What are some reliable criteria? We all want to give our children the best. How do we identify “best”? Books that are worth reading propose a vision of reality that corresponds to the ultimate goal of my parenting. Discover the three questions that books worth reading help to answer. Let’s get started together!

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