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I was filing my son's pages of Literary Child away the other day and noticed that the April issue was sporting March's date in the footer. So there are some of you who received the issue before I corrected the mistake. So sorry! Not a big deal, I know, but I thought I should acknowledge my mistake for those of you who might be confused!

Poem: Bed in Summer

Although it just turned Spring, and this poem is about Summer, the time change last weekend has altered bedtime around here and this poem keeps coming to mind!

Bed in Summer
In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day

I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.

And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?

Robert Louis Stevenson

Word of the Week: eschew

eschew
verb
Dictionary: avoid, abstain from, stay away from, stay clear of, shun.

And now my kids use it in a sentence:

6 year old son: "I eschew ghosts. And strangers."

3 year old daughter: "I eschew stickers* because they hurt me, and monsters."

*Stickers used here doesn’t mean “adhesive labels” but rather something found outdoors...tiny round things with sharp spikes all around them that attach to your clothing when you’re walking in the country. They hurt.

And now for my favorite use of the word "eschew". I think my all-time favorite bumper sticker was one I saw many years ago. It simply read: Eschew Obfuscation. I thought that was pretty clever and humorous.