{"id":4915,"date":"2009-10-14T20:31:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T03:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=4915"},"modified":"2026-01-31T19:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T03:56:11","slug":"a-rite-of-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2009\/10\/14\/a-rite-of-passage\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rite of Passage"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the last 10 months, each morning Bean sits with her Dad on the sofa, watching PBS shows while he works from home for an hour, giving me a break to shower and prep for the day. One of her first and favorite shows has been Between the Lions<\/a>. It’s a show with a muppet-style lion family that runs a library. Many stories are read, and vowels and consonants are explored. It’s a really creative show. (The pun between the lions<\/em> refers to “reading between the lines” and to walking between the lions at the entrance of the New York City public library<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

On the show they talk about getting a library card; for the past couple of months, if you ask Bean, “What do you do with a library card?” She answers, “You bring the books to the lady and she lets you take them home.” In recent months she’s been talking more about going to the library. (We had not gone to story hour since she turned 1, because the librarian who runs the story hour for ages 1-2 is a stickler for making the children sit still, and has been known to chastise mothers if their children don’t follow the rules. So we haven’t been.) <\/p>\n

Today, because we stayed out of preschool so as not to share any lingering germs, we went to the library to get Bean her very own library card<\/em>. She was very proud of it and told her Dad all about it when he got home from work. She picked three books for herself, and we’ve read them each about a dozen times already. I’m sure we’ll be making regular trips from now on.<\/p>\n

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