A Brave Writer’s Life in Brief

Hi Julie,

We’re new to Brave Writer this year—I attended the workshop you held in Grand Rapids last March (I’m the one who asked you if you happened to be a LLL Leader, since I recognized many familiar LLL ideas in your writing and speaking), and we’re slowly incorporating Brave Writer ideas into our life. We started having poetry teas last spring—finally a way to enjoy poetry together!

A friend of mine recently told me her 8 year old daughter was really interested in learning about poetry, but she didn’t know how to teach her. I sent her some information about Brave Writer and directed her to the website to read more, then we had a big poetry tea on Sept 5 with all six children. Each of the children read or recited a couple of poems and we all enjoyed tea together. Her daughter memorized several poems and also taught her 4 year old brother some poems he could recite on his own, and one that they did together. My 7 year old son drew a picture of a shark to illustrate his poem. Everyone learned how varied poems can be and we all had a wonderful time together. We have decided to make this a monthly event—all the kids look forward to it. Our next Poetry Tea is scheduled for this Friday, Oct. 3.

Thanks, Julie, for helping out our family.

Ann

P.S. I was a La Leche League leader for ten years. Some of my first published writing was for La Leche League as a matter of fact!

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