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

Word-Dancing With Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Are Wonderful for Both Learning and Play
"And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon," by Randolph Caldecott, 1882. Pen and ink, gouache, and watercolor on paper; 6 5/16 by 7 3/4 inches. London: George Routledge and Sons. Public domain
Jeff Minick
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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 their time watching the widescreen television, taking sedate walks on the beach, and putting their heads together in quiet conversations broken by sudden laughter. They walked rather than ran to meals and treats, and when they weren’t wearing bathing attire, dressed as if it mattered, especially the girls.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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