Lessons from Frog and Toad

Amy, (the other mom I homeschool with) forwarded me an excerpt from the Charlotte Mason homeschooling blog and it couldn’t come at a more appropriate time. We read the Frog and Toad series last year with Jackie and I totally forgot about this one!


Lessons from Frog and Toad: A Growing Time, Part 1

Have you read their story about the garden? Frog sees Toad’s beautiful garden and decides he wants one. So Frog gives him some seeds.

Toad plants them and impatiently watches for them to grow. He paces beside the garden; he shouts at the seeds, “Start growing!”

Frog reassures him: “Leave them alone for a few days. Let the sun shine on them, let the rain fall on them. Soon your seeds will start to grow.”

But Toad wears himself out trying to do everything he can think of to make those seeds grow. Finally he falls asleep, exhausted; and while he is not looking, the seeds sprout.

“And now you will have a nice garden too,” says Frog.

Toad agrees, but adds, “It was very hard work.”

Keep reminding me of this story, Amy!


Favorite pic of the week: Miss Karen and Baby Caleb enjoying the good life.