I was looking up two words that define the feeling that permeates the first book of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (or Remembrance of Things Past, as it is also known): Nostalgia, as defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, “is pleasure and sadness that is caused by remembering something from the past and wishing that you […]
Month: October 2016
Dealing with Frustration
Today’s parents and educators have a difficult task ahead of them. And I say of today because it wasn’t until the early twentieth century that anyone paid very much attention to children. No one was too concerned about how the way children were being brought up would affect the kind of grownup people they would […]