I and You: Mastering Personal Pronouns

I and You Amie is now in the habit of formulating descriptions of what she is doing as follows: “Are you x-ing?” She does this in imitation of our own (incessant) questions about and observations of what she is doing, and because she is struggling with the personal pronouns “you” and “I” and “me”. Once …

Drawing as it Develops: Two more articles

I’ve added two more articles on the development of Amie’s drawings, the last one (no. 4 in the series) finally relating the “Breakthrough” I posted on earlier. Here are all the installments so far: First Drawings of a Very Young Child: Amie at 16 months Circles, and Coloring Books (a Mistake?): Amie at 18 months …

Compost Dream Replaced by Other Dream

Compost Dreams Dashed The vote is in and it’s a veto: the majority of the Trustees of our condominium have said no to our composting bin idea. The first one was personally against it, the second one would dearly like to do it herself, but she knew many other residents would revolt. The third and …

The Fetus Fone and other Pregnant Fantasies

The Baby Tote When I was pregnant with Amie, I often amused myself thinking up all kinds of ways to make the pregnancy easier on us. For instance, later on in our pregnancies, when the weight begins to pull our spines out of allignment and our back muscles out of shape, when all those vital organs need …

New Article Series: Drawing with Very Young Children

Amie, 28 April 2007 Breakthrough!  I think Amie has made (or is in the midst of making) a breakthrough in her drawing. I happened to catch it on video, and may try to find a way to share that clip with you (at present that is beyond my technical skills).  It has prompted me to start writing a …