Cedar Writes

Tag: reading with children

  • Blast from the Past: Sheer Twaddle

    Blast from the Past: Sheer Twaddle

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    Originally posted in July 2013 When I first started writing stories for my children, my ex-husband looked at them and said “you’re using too many big words, you know.” Well, since I was told in highschool by my English teacher to stop using so many big words, this stung, and I started looking into how…

  • Blast from the Past: Parenting and Books

    Blast from the Past: Parenting and Books

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    I will return to live-blogging tomorrow, but this essay finishes the mini series that began three days ago.  Definitions Perversion: the alteration of something from its original course, meaning, or state to a distortion or corruption of what was first intended.   Morals: 1. a lesson, esp. one concerning what is right or prudent, that…

  • The Rule of Fives

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    Mirror-posted at Mad Genius Club today. I found a post on Passive Voice about the Five Finger Rule, which I wasn’t familiar with. I had a good chuckle over his one-finger salute of it, and read the comments for further insight. In the comments, Will Entrekin came up with a lovely rebuttal, and one I…