![]() ![]() ![]() It’s one of the reasons why I wear glasses now - I would spend hours reading by the light from the Jack-and-Jill bathroom between my room and my brothers’ room. I used to read late at night when I was a kid, long after my parents had put us all to bed. Re-reading Little House in the Big Woods this year brought back so many memories from my childhood. If you grew up never playing with a pig’s bladder balloon, what can I say? Samesies. If you are pro 2A in theory but did not grow up with guns you might also be surprised. TLDR if you practice gentle parenting you might want to preread. It definitely held up vs some other books I’ve reread as an adult. I personally chose to edit out some language I did not want my children to adopt. My kids enjoyed this very much and I did too. It was interesting to reread as an adult. We also compared it to an Old Testament style vs NT as we were reading the Old Testament concurrently. I used this as a point of discussion with my children to cover how disobedience could lead to extreme consequences in a time and place without easy access to doctors and communication. I told my friend this could be retitled “Guns n Spankings”. Things I did not remember or even notice: there are a lot of guns and spankings. ![]() Things I remembered with love from reading this as a child: eating cracklings, making a balloon from a pig’s bladder. ![]()
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