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12-11-2013, 01:04 AM | #1 |
Rose Garden
Genteel Princess Mollie
Join Date: Mar 2005
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Parables from Nature: Paraphrased
I've just finished paraphrasing and proofreading the classic 1893 book "Parables from Nature" by Margaret Gatty. This is a living book that Charlotte Mason used with her own elementary-aged students.
It's got 29 (I think? I didn't count them) stories that illustrate a spiritual truth via a story involving nature. In other words, it's more about moral truth than about nature. There's a story about dragonfly nymphs who can't imagine any world other than the world under the pond where they live, a horse who refuses to submit to authority, a garden of plants who yearn to be wild and free to grow however they want, a tree who says, "I gotta be me!" even at the expense of his neighbors, etc. The language can be challenging if you're not used to flowery Victorian writing, so I paraphrased it for Ambleside Online students, but it's free for anybody to read online: http://www.amblesideonline.org/ParablesParaphrase.shtml Many of the stories are easily grasped by kids, but a couple of them are more relevant for adults. The very last one, Birds in the Nest, is a good one for moms to read when they're missing the days when their babies were little. The Deliverer is good for Christmas, and A Lesson of Hope might go over children's heads but would probably help someone struggling with sadness. Inferior Animals is funny - a bird tries to explain where people came from; it's sort of a twist on evolution. |
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12-11-2013, 12:34 PM | #2 |
Rose Garden
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: UK
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Re: Parables from Nature: Paraphrased
Thanks
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Sam 6 kids spread over a quarter of a century. Home educating 3. One is getting married later this year Two have flown the nest. Grandma to four . |
12-11-2013, 12:38 PM | #3 |
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Try the bean dip, she said
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: okc
Posts: 2,516
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Re: Parables from Nature: Paraphrased
we will definitely use this!
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12-11-2013, 02:11 PM | #4 |
Rose Garden
previously mlrowley
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: NW WA
Posts: 17,954
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Re: Parables from Nature: Paraphrased
We've been wrestling our way through. This will make it much easier.
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12-11-2013, 02:56 PM | #5 |
Rose Garden
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Seattle area
Posts: 21,260
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Re: Parables from Nature: Paraphrased
thank you
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Wife to a wonderful DH for 19 years.
Momma to my 29 weeker Early Bird who is thirteen and my little Wiggle Worm born 33 weeks who is nine. How do I have a teenager?! I don't feel ready for this. |
12-11-2013, 07:56 PM | #6 |
Climbing Rose
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Southeast Oklahoma - is anybody out there?
Posts: 1,035
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Re: Parables from Nature: Paraphrased
Thanks!
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Blessed wife to BK Loving mama to JW (October 2008) NK (June 2013) and MK (May 2015) Longing to hold my three s in heaven (Feb 2011, June 2011, July 2012) AP'ing, co-sleeping, CLW, no-circ, selectively vaccinating, and learning gentleness in parenting every day! LOVE LETS LIVE |
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