The Resolute Woman

Category: children

  • The Golden Rule

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    “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” “It means this: Treat people the way you would like to be treated. It’s golden because it’s so valuable—and a way of living your life that’s so simple, it shines,” says the grandfather in Ilene Cooper’s children’s book The Golden Rule.

  • A world of peace for every child

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    We recently discussed a book about Anne Frank at a Girl Scout summer book club. We talked with the girls about being upstanders instead of bystanders—and how every child deserves to be safe and loved—and have enough food—and live in peace. –Joy

  • Two gay penguins

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    In the award-winning documentary “The ABCs of Book Banning,” Ridley, who’s nine years old, discusses the children’s book And Tango Makes Three. It’s a book about two male penguins who adopt a baby penguin. Ridley says: “It’s about two penguins that are gay with each other and, even though they have their differences from the…

  • Rosa Parks was tired

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    A children’s book called Rosa by Nikki Giovanni is one of the banned books named in an award-winning documentary “The ABC of Book Banning.” These are words from the book: She sighed as she realized she was tired. Not tired from work, but tired of putting white people first. Tired of stepping off sidewalks to…

  • Ambitious girls

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    Aren’t girls supposed to be ambitious? Persistent? Assertive? And, confident? I watched an award-winning documentary—”The ABCs of Book Banning”—and I discovered that a children’s book by Meena Harris titled Ambitious Girls is one of the books that has been banned. Here are some words from the book: Persistent means I won’t give up. Assertive means…

  • Starving in Gaza

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    Nearly two thirds of families in Gaza eat only one meal a day, and, in 95 percent of households, adults restrict their intake to make sure small children can eat. These very disturbing statistics come from a February 19, 2024, report from the Global Nutrition Group, an aid partnership led by UNICEF. I found the…

  • Banning books

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    Why are books banned? “To foment anxiety and anger with the goal of suppressing free expression in public education,” concludes PEN America, a nonprofit that works to defend and celebrate free expression. “The freedom to read, learn and think continues to be undermined for students.” I read about “restricted reading” in the fall 2023 issue…

  • Be prepared

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    Before she was the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi was the mother of five. She had five children in the span of six years and one week. In her book Madam Speaker—Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power, Susan Page reports that Pelosi drilled into her children an unofficial family motto—“Proper preparation prevents poor…

  • A flood of kisses

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    Rebekah Taussig, writing in the May 24/May 31 issue of Time magazine, says that she has a tradition of giving her partner Micah and her son Otto a flood of kisses every morning when they leave the house. “I hope we are teaching Otto to be brave and also kind,” she writes, “to take good…

  • Be brave

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    Rebekah Taussig wonders how to teach her son to be true to himself. In the May 24/May 31 issue of Time magazine, she writes, “How do I teach him to be brave? To hold on to himself when the opinions of others are loud and everywhere.”