Author Archives: Emma

Wooden train sets keep your child’s development on track

“Choo Choo!” The train glides along the Amish Country Ohio tracks as it always has. After crossing a bridge, it goes down and then obediently folds to the track. A small group of farmers watch the train whiz past them. Then suddenly, a cow standing along the tracks leaps into the air and lands on […]

Loving my Christmas girl born disabled from congenital CMV

Waiting for our second child, who would arrive on Christmas Eve 1989, was a delightful experience. What a Christmas present! But the moment Elizabeth was born, on December 18th, I felt a pang of fear. My immediate thought was, “Her head looks so small, so deformed.” Before he was twelve hours old, I found out […]

Early Learning – Can Movies and TV Ever Be Good for Babies and Toddlers?

What an important question! As a parent of a baby or toddler, you want to help your little one reach their potential. We know that language and social skills are very important for success in school and in life. And what better time to start than when your child is small? First, the bad news, […]

Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby: Becoming Tom’s Soul Woman

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom live in the elegant and affluent East Egg off Long Island Sound. While Tom can’t get through his football days in New Haven, filled with machismo and swagger, and as Nick describes him, constantly searching for the “dramatic […]

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