Tag: Nursery rhymes

Word-Dancing With Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Are Wonderful for Both Learning and Play

Six years had passed since my children, their spouses, and their children had last gathered for some time at the beach, and things, I quickly discovered, had changed. The kids who had once splashed in the ocean or dug for sand fleas at the tide’s edge were now teens who spent a good part of…


Mother Goose Matters

Education is a journey, and, as with any journey, there must be some initial idea or inkling of the destination before there can be any reasonable means to arrive there. The end of education is, of course, the truth, and there exist few truthful awakenings like Mother Goose’s nursery rhymes. As a wondrous introduction to…