Comments on: What I’ll Be Doing Over Winter Break http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2007/12/03/what-ill-be-doing-over-winter-break/ Thoughts on Dreams, Life, and Spirit Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:12:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Anne http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2007/12/03/what-ill-be-doing-over-winter-break/#comment-7327 Anne Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:47:02 +0000 http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2007/12/03/what-ill-be-doing-over-winter-break/#comment-7327 Why Chas, how surprising for you to ask a seemingly innocent question loaded with subtext! The short answer: some but not all. In fact, many of the readings for the course come from sources outside the standard Pagan parenting bookshelf. That's one reason I'm so excited about the coursework. Somewhere in the archives of the Reclaiming Newsletter is a review I wrote of all the existing Pagan parenting books before <i>Circle Round</i> was published. I include O'Gaea's text in that review. Hecate, I am surprised there is not a blog, website, or e-list for Pagan grandparents helping raise the next generation. That seems an obvious need. Why Chas, how surprising for you to ask a seemingly innocent question loaded with subtext! The short answer: some but not all. In fact, many of the readings for the course come from sources outside the standard Pagan parenting bookshelf. That’s one reason I’m so excited about the coursework.

Somewhere in the archives of the Reclaiming Newsletter is a review I wrote of all the existing Pagan parenting books before Circle Round was published. I include O’Gaea’s text in that review.

Hecate, I am surprised there is not a blog, website, or e-list for Pagan grandparents helping raise the next generation. That seems an obvious need.

]]> By: Chas S. Clifton http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2007/12/03/what-ill-be-doing-over-winter-break/#comment-7326 Chas S. Clifton Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:38:47 +0000 http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2007/12/03/what-ill-be-doing-over-winter-break/#comment-7326 Will you be surveying the various Pagan child-reading books -- Ashleen O'Gaea's, etc.? Will you be surveying the various Pagan child-reading books — Ashleen O’Gaea’s, etc.?

]]> By: Hecate http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2007/12/03/what-ill-be-doing-over-winter-break/#comment-7320 Hecate Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:10:48 +0000 http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2007/12/03/what-ill-be-doing-over-winter-break/#comment-7320 You know, there is, as far as I can tell, zero information out there on grandparenting a child, while Pagan. It's such an odd negotiation, between the 'rents and the g/rents anyway, and throw Paganism into the mix, and, wow. I sing Goddess chants to put g/Son to sleep. I tell him feminist versions of fairy tales and nursery rhymes. I do protection spells when I knit sweaters for him and reiki on his boo-boos. But I'm not sure how I'm going to handle the inevitable questions that will come as he grows older. Already, he's v. interested in my ritual room. This religion will be so different in a few generations. It's just here, now, on the cusp that it's all so "interesting" to figure out. You know, there is, as far as I can tell, zero information out there on grandparenting a child, while Pagan. It’s such an odd negotiation, between the ‘rents and the g/rents anyway, and throw Paganism into the mix, and, wow. I sing Goddess chants to put g/Son to sleep. I tell him feminist versions of fairy tales and nursery rhymes. I do protection spells when I knit sweaters for him and reiki on his boo-boos. But I’m not sure how I’m going to handle the inevitable questions that will come as he grows older. Already, he’s v. interested in my ritual room.

This religion will be so different in a few generations. It’s just here, now, on the cusp that it’s all so “interesting” to figure out.

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