Sharing a Measured Earful
I just finished a biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton called The First Partner by Joyce Milton*.
I have to pick and choose what I can share with my dc. Her husband's personal exploits are off limits as is a lot of the foul language she, Bill and her close friends used or were quoted as using.
But what I can share is this:
What this author documented happening in Hillary's life and how she dealt with it. The policies she holds dear (such as state involvement is child rearing and other facets of our life) and how they were adopted or not and what the implications are for us and our nation.
How the Clinton Whitehouse compared to the Reagan, Bush and Kennedy Whitehouses and why the differences were there. From past biographies I have read on these administrations I can compare and contrast.
In light realizing that the best gift I have to raise and educate my children sharing myself, I am trying to share what I learn. It has been easy really. I think in the past I would overplan, worry about how to deliver the information and then how to ensure they knew it. I am finding instead sharing in our home has become much more natural and simple. And real.
As I read, or listen to something interesting, I share it with the boys. That's it. I'll ask: What do you think? Is this author biased? How does that compare to what we have learned in the past?
This really seems to be working well.
One definition of learning I have heard from various places is that learning is making sense of new information in the context of things we already know.
Watching Hillary and her life, her upbrining, her marriage, her career, the decisions she has made, her affect on others -- are all things we can compare with what we know. And our faith also gives us divine truth to help us further make sense of her choices and decisions.
More fodder for life.
*Joyce Milton is a best-selling writer on American history and biography, her most recent work is The First Partner, a biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Other biographies by Milton include Loss of Eden: A Biography of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Tramp: A Definitive Biography of Charlie Chaplin. From Powells.com
I have to pick and choose what I can share with my dc. Her husband's personal exploits are off limits as is a lot of the foul language she, Bill and her close friends used or were quoted as using.
But what I can share is this:
What this author documented happening in Hillary's life and how she dealt with it. The policies she holds dear (such as state involvement is child rearing and other facets of our life) and how they were adopted or not and what the implications are for us and our nation.
How the Clinton Whitehouse compared to the Reagan, Bush and Kennedy Whitehouses and why the differences were there. From past biographies I have read on these administrations I can compare and contrast.
In light realizing that the best gift I have to raise and educate my children sharing myself, I am trying to share what I learn. It has been easy really. I think in the past I would overplan, worry about how to deliver the information and then how to ensure they knew it. I am finding instead sharing in our home has become much more natural and simple. And real.
As I read, or listen to something interesting, I share it with the boys. That's it. I'll ask: What do you think? Is this author biased? How does that compare to what we have learned in the past?
This really seems to be working well.
One definition of learning I have heard from various places is that learning is making sense of new information in the context of things we already know.
Watching Hillary and her life, her upbrining, her marriage, her career, the decisions she has made, her affect on others -- are all things we can compare with what we know. And our faith also gives us divine truth to help us further make sense of her choices and decisions.
More fodder for life.
*Joyce Milton is a best-selling writer on American history and biography, her most recent work is The First Partner, a biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Other biographies by Milton include Loss of Eden: A Biography of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Tramp: A Definitive Biography of Charlie Chaplin. From Powells.com
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