March 02, 2006
Sleeping beauty, vegan eats
So we've been reading fairy tales, biding my time before I can get into myths. We've got a book of greek myths for kids -- which means all the bloodshed, none of the sex -- so we're doing fairy tales first. Not that they couldn't freeze your blood, some of them. Absent mothers and pushover fathers make way for evil-stepmothers and mysoginistic storylines. But we talk about that too, thanks to a brain and a tiny book called PC fairytales that's nice to reference every once in a while.
Okay, this last week we did Sleeping Beauty, or Napping Average-girl, heh, kidding. We read that story many times, talked about it, retold it to each other, acted it out and then I read it aloud and he told he each characters he thought would need a puppet if we were gonna do a puppet show. I made a list. Then we sat down and made little paper and stick puppets. Little Bit drew them all except 2, and I'm not even sure you could guess which 2 (the evil fairy and 'sad prince that gets caught in the briars #2').
Listed in order from left to right and then top to bottom, here's who they are --
king, queen, bad fairy, 3 nice fairies, baby sleeping beauty, 15 year old sleeping beauty, guard that falls asleep, sad prince that gets caught in the briars #2, prince that mades it through the briars (notice only the small bloody splinter on his forehead - hehe), sad prince that gets caught in the briars #1, frog, flower for briars, briars, spinning wheel, fire.
How cool is that? We're performing a puppet show later today. Our audience will consist of B-ill and about 10 stuffed friends. Two drink minimum.
oh, and vegan eats menu below, some meals heald over from last week because we were out, at a birthday party in NJ, or otherwise indisposed.
This week's vegan eats
Mains--
Pesto linguini (last night)
winter veggie stew
quinoa with panfried corn and orange zest
adzuki beans and winter squash sautee
tofu pot pie
sides -- broccoli, brussels, greenbeans and garlic, spinach
dessert -- keylime cheesecake
muffin - banana bran muffins
Posted by jacey at March 2, 2006 07:38 AMLIttle Bit is a great artist!
Posted by: amandamonkey at March 2, 2006 09:19 AMToo wonderful ..don't lose them Mum says you'll regret it .She adores kids drawings...I did a lot more drawing at home-school than "serious" study .Holly
Posted by: Holly Cox at March 3, 2006 02:51 PMHi - I've been reading your blog and admiring your fabulous yarns for a few months now and i love reading about your parenting and teaching ideas. It's so good to find out what other lefty-progressive-thoughtful people are doing in this area (I don't have kids yet, but plan to!). Anyway, I'm just curious about your thoughts on the pg-ish myths, as in "all the bloodshed, none of the sex." why is it better to expose children to violence than sex? i think we are so overwhelmed with christian sex-negativity that this is a value many of us accept without question. but there are many cultures around the world that have not historically been sex-negative and traditionally found no reason to edit out sex from traditional stories when told to children. sex is a part of life and does not have to be presented in graphic detail; what are we communicating to our children by shielding them from any discussion of sex, while exposing them to violence? i'm interested in your thoughts on this topic since you seem to be a very thoughtful person and take the violence issue seriously.
Thank you!
Posted by: Heidi at March 15, 2006 11:29 PM