“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
–Albert Einstein
When discussing my simple approach to schooling, I’m often asked how I settled on this “method.” I like to do the research and find “the best” of anything – but when faced with the vast array of options for children’s education I knew what would happen…
I would spend huge amounts of time planning, researching, and stressing about the perfect way to do things – and not nearly enough time actually being with my children.
There is no perfect way for every child! We all know that, and yet we worry about these milestones and standards that we can’t quite get out of our heads.
I’m not saying my particular way is the best way, or the only way. It is the way that currently works for us. What I am absolutely saying is that reading great books to your children as much as possible is of immense benefit – and if it were the only thing you could do in a day, or a week, or for the time being, it could certainly be “enough.”
I’ve done the work. I’ve discovered the books, I’ve read them with my children, and I’ve curated a large collection of amazing artwork from their pages. I personally enjoy reading these books as much as my children do – and I hope you will too!
“Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.”
W.B. Yeats
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