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Let her be bored. Let her have long afternoons with absolutely nothing to do. Limit her TV-watching time and her internet-playing time and take away her cell phone. Give her a whole summer of lazy mornings and dreamy afternoons. Make sure she has a library card and a comfy corner where she can curl up with a book.

Give her a notebook and five bucks so she can pick out a great pen. Insist she spend time with the family. It’s even better if this time is spent in another state, a cabin in the woods, a cottage on the lake, far from her friends and people her own age. Give her some tedious chores to do. Make her mow the lawn, do the dishes by hand, paint the garage. Make her go on long walks with you and tell her you just want to listen to the sounds of the neighborhood.

Let her be lonely. Let her believe that no one in the world truly understands her. Give her the freedom to fall in love with the wrong person, to lose her heart, to have it smashed and abused and broken. Occasionally be too busy to listen, be distracted by other things, have your nose in a great book, be gone with your own friends. Let her have secrets

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The Brooding Hen: House Bookshelf

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A home in Stockholm, Sweden.

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The iPad edition of Oliver Jeffers’s The Heart and the Bottle looks intriguing. I’m skeptical of picture books being treated with gimmicky animation, but this looks great.

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The Intersection of Moms Versus Kids In Home Decor Aesthetic Outburst | Apartment Therapy Ohdeedoh

We see so many rooms that don’t have a hint of “commercial kid” and are filled with vintage pieces and salvaged and made finds that it’s easy to forget, some battles you just won’t win. No matter how badly you love the look of that wiener dog painting from the thrift store in combination with that unruly stack of books, your child is bound to win a round or two and that’s exactly what happened here. Take a look at this mom’s concession after the jump!

Abbey over at Aesthetic Outburst gave us quite a…

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