The books may say that nine-month-olds crawl, say their first words, and are afraid of strangers. Your exuberantly concrete and sp...ecial nine-month-old hasn't read them. She may be walking already, not saying a word and smiling gleefully at every stranger she sees. . . . You can support her best by helping her learn what she's trying to learn, not what the books say a typical child ought to be learning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for ...a puritan to understand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »