I've been reading about eating living (aka raw) food, and how much better it is for your body.  We tend to eat cooked or otherwise processed foods which don't have living enzymes and are lacking in the vitamins and nutrients they had when they started.  The other day, I was reading a blog by Betty at Betty's Bits and she was talking about a book about Charlotte Mason by Leslie Laurio that she is reading and she said,

"It’s so ironic that when it comes to nutrition, we have come to respect the idea that the less processed a food the better it is for our bodies.  But when it comes to the minds of our children, we don’t hesitate to serve up processed information served in tasteless, dry bits of facts.  The children eat and are filled, but are their minds really nourished and inspired?  There is another way. " 

I was already a fan of living books, but this really nailed it on the head for me.  Instead of textbooks which provide your child with some processed knowledge, they should be reading living books that still have all the nutrients and minerals intact, so their own minds can process it.  You really should read her post, because I'm not doing it justice, but I agree wholeheartedly with what she, and Leslie Laurio were saying.

Isaac and I just finished reading a great living book, called The Bronze Bow, by Elizabeth Speare.  I'll try to review it for you in a few days.

Happy Reading.