Show I 1 honie home education 1 the childs first school is the I 1 family froebel I 1 I 1 DE DEARS ARS EXAMPLE by joaie elliott 1 mommy dear tell me a story something you did when you were a little girl janie climbed into the sleepy hollow chair with her mother her bright blue eyes eager with interest and anticipation something you really and truly did mommy well dear are you quite sure you will not be fast asleep before I 1 have finished eked mrs tiffany as she gently stroked the curly locks of her little dough boughter ter her thoughts flew back to the time when she too wanted to hear true stories from her m mother other princ pally about things that happened when the yankees invaded the south no she had no war story for janie her story began one day when I 1 was about your size I 1 walked into the dining room just before lunch time mother may I 1 have a biscuit I 1 asked your grandmother grand turned and selected the lightest fluffiest one on the plate and handed it to me saying will you have butter butler or jelly dear no just the biscuit please this had happened so often during the past week or two that my mothers interest was aroused she watched me go into the vegetable garden and take my seat by a row of young onions that were just a few inches high tender and pungent I 1 would pull up one at a time remove the outer leaves and proceed to eat the tender shoots with my biscuit As soon as the biscuit had vanished I 1 was ready to resume my play no I 1 was not hungry at lunch time mrs tiffany smiled and sighed it seems but yesterday that I 1 was was a child back in the old home she murmured to herself janie was almost asleep nothing more was thought of mommy dears story until a few days later mommy dear came from little janie anie may inay baby ruth and I 1 go to 0 see grandmother we will come home the minute you telephone for us mrs tiffany readily consented for it was a daily occurrence to go to grandmothers the very sight of the home made the children hungry for there was always something good waiting for them just tell your grandmother ill be be over a little later she said but when mrs tiffany entered the beloved living room of her old home her mother was sitting erect in the lad derback chair her eyes snapping with indignation two little girls sat opposite her eyes lowered fingers twisting the sashes of their dresses daughter grandmother announced noun ced speaking with unsmiling lips just see what janie and ruth have done my little spring onions pulled up by the boots roots rows and rows of them mommy dear smiled but with genuine chagrin janie and ruth had followed in her footsteps much too realistically thereafter her true stories were chosen with much greater discretion |