Tag: childhood

• “The pumpkins are funny. You, you aren’t that funny.”

  My six-year-old’s latest passion is telling me I’m “not that funny.” Kayla has invented a “Funny Meter’ and tells me daily that I’m “only half-way there,” while she and Bill are “way at the top of the Funny Meter.” Given that I like to inject humor into much of my writing, my ego could get […]

  Heather Grace Stewart

  November 9, 2011

  At Home, Family Life, Kids

  childhood, Family, humor, Kids, life

• “Poetry, Ahhhh!” –Not “Poetry, Arghhh!”

  I’ve always been in love with poetry –but I loved words at a very young age, and my first experience being told to write a poem was a very positive one. My grade one teacher took us to the local arena, and when we returned, she asked us to write an “expressive limerick” about it. […]

  Heather Grace Stewart

  April 27, 2010

  Engaging Kids And Teens With Poetry, Facebook Poems, Kids, Poems about Change, Poems about Facebook, Poems About Words, Poems that Rhyme, Uncategorized, Writing

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