Sentences with phrase «parent as gardener»

In The Gardener and the Carpenter, she lays out her theory that caring for children is like tending a garden, with parent as gardener, encouraging a child's natural curiosity.

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As the book's title suggests, the best model for parents and teachers — honed over millennia of human evolution and trial and error — is not the carpenter who works diligently from an established blueprint, but the patient gardener who provides a safe space to let nature take its course, and then gets out of the way.

There were small patches of front and back garden which Jess's parents, who cited lack of time to tend them and lack of funds to get a gardener, both readily referred to as «appalling.»