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WHAT SHALL WE CELEBRATE?

Dec 15, 2025

Every day, we grown-ups are inundated with messages urging us to mistrust, exclude, and expel certain people. How do we “grow up” to this? Children do not find these attitudes modeled...

I SEE MYSELF IN YOU

Sep 9, 2025

A friend of mine, a fellow writer, laments that picture books are considered little children’s books. Great picture books offer wisdom for humans of all ages. Consider the two books we’re...

Debra Collins

Children who are easily overwhelmed have narrow comfort zones. It is far too easy for everyday situations to trigger self-protective “fight or flight” reactions, whereby the autonomic nervous system equips...

WARMLY WELCOMING EVERY ONE

May 6, 2025

This month’s book highlights and nurtures social-emotional capacities of Social Awareness and Relationship Skills through metaphor, rather than a character-driven plot.

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