I often lament over the well-intentioned adults who think we need to “do something special for the children.”
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Summer “What We’re Reading” Wednesday
…and of course dozens of board-books for our 14-month old daughter of which Jesus and the Twelve Dude Who Did, telling the story of each of the apostles as their faces stick out into the page, might be of interest to the Pray Tell readership.
Read moreOn doxology and human language
My daughter Juliana is now 15 months old. She is now learning about one word a day, and is totally thrilled by the ability to communicate and be understood. Much of her language acquisition is — dare I say it — doxological…
Read moreEucharistic thoughts, at three
My son is named after St. Thomas Aquinas. We had expected his baptismal name to get abbreviated in short order to “Tom” or “Tommy” like most other American Thomases, but it never happened. One thing he shares with his namesake is an aptitude for asking the right questions.
Read moreSecond Graders Can Understand This!?
I downloaded the 4 new Eucharistic Prayers into Word documents. Word provides the Flesch Reading Ease and Flesch-Kincaide Grade Level, which measures the complexity of the sentence strucure and the difficulty of the vocabulary. The result was…
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