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“Life’s disappointments are harder to take if you don’t know any swear words.”
― It's OK Not to Share and Other Renegade Rules for Raising Competent and Compassionate Kids
― It's OK Not to Share and Other Renegade Rules for Raising Competent and Compassionate Kids
“phase. It lasted about three months. During this time, big and trivial events alike set him off, and instantly he’d lash out with arms, legs or teeth. My reflexes got quick. “I can’t let you hit me,” I’d say, grabbing his arm. “People are not for hitting. If you need to hit”
― It's OK Not to Share and Other Renegade Rules for Raising Competent and Compassionate Kids
― It's OK Not to Share and Other Renegade Rules for Raising Competent and Compassionate Kids
“There must be ghost stories galore in a country with so many old buildings. Maybe even here at the Griffinage. Maybe right here in this room. She shivered a little, and turned her head. Normally, she'd never look for ghosts flying around the kitchen, but back home their kitchen was an ordinary one with a linoleum floor. Meg was quite sure that ghosts and linoleum did not mix.”
― The Griffins of Castle Cary
― The Griffins of Castle Cary
“Playtime is precious. Play builds brain pathways for thinking, creativity, flexibility, empathy, and many other lifelong skills.”
― It's OK Not to Share and Other Renegade Rules for Raising Competent and Compassionate Kids
― It's OK Not to Share and Other Renegade Rules for Raising Competent and Compassionate Kids
“The back door pushed open and revealed a large brown foot. Not a shoe, not at all. The next moment, a creature lumbered in. He was a mountain of a dog, a huge, shaggy beast, with folds of skin wrapped around his sturdy neck like a lion's mane. He moved the way a mountain might move, and each leg ended with a massive bearlike paw. He was entirely brown.
"A giant chocolate dog!” cried Ariel, and was out of her seat in an instant.”
― The Griffins of Castle Cary
"A giant chocolate dog!” cried Ariel, and was out of her seat in an instant.”
― The Griffins of Castle Cary
“The Children’s Garden was intended as a place for children to play in the “company of children under seven years old who do not learn to read, write and cipher.”
― It's OK Not to Share and Other Renegade Rules for Raising Competent and Compassionate Kids
― It's OK Not to Share and Other Renegade Rules for Raising Competent and Compassionate Kids
