Another Way - Becoming a Lakeside Parent
It was a heated discussion for such a chilly January morning at the Whallonsburg Grange – Parent: Pick up your trash and throw it away. Child: I can’t pick it up. The air is too hot. (Their snack wrapper had fallen under a very large heater vent.) Parent: Pick it up, or we’re going home! Child: I can’t pick it up. IT’S. TOO. HOT. – a variation on a conversation I had heard dozens of times before as a teacher, and would frequently find myself trapped in when my then-baby turne
