Our Little Red Wagons
What is the best wagon? For us, it has to be this wagon. The Town & Country Little Red Wagon that can! The wagon’s stability, its familiar painted wood, knobby tires, and long metal handle—with just the right amount of resistance and maneuverability—make it more than a tool. It’s a forever item, not for transporting children but for handing them the reins.
Raising Storytellers
At Takoma Park Cooperative Nursery School, we are raising storytellers who learn to see the world not just as it is, but as it could be. Through stories, our children connect to language, peers, and the natural world, gaining the tools to navigate life with creativity, empathy, and confidence.
Maybe They Forgot Their Bag
Listen and learn. “Maybe they forgot their bag,” a child observes in answer to finding yet another pile of dog poop on the lawn where we are playing. This willingness to see a global kindness in others is something often gets lost as we grow older. So now we just bring bags with us to help where we can.
Cliff of Doom (The Gifts of Awe and Wonder)
Wonder and awe. These are gifts that will stand for us. They are the things that will bring us comfort and settle us during times we feel stuck and at a loss for how to proceed.
Grandmother Snake
I know the power of story, coming and going. The following week, he told me that whenever he is worried he just picks up a worry stone and it takes care of itself. He told me this with the knowledge and skill that this was his very own story. I didn’t tell it, he did.