I’ve always thought that taking care of babies is a breeze compared to raising toddlers and preschoolers. Parents would definitely have it much easier if there was a “baby boot camp” for children between their first and fifth birthdays. Although these are wondrous years of learning and discovery, they are...
Slinking through life, setting and attaining low-set goals, and looking forward to nothing but more of the same in the future, is not a life many would want to live. Taylor Greer, the main character in the book, The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver, lives in a town whose inhabitants...