rockdoveranch
Ridin' The Range
3 or 4 times a day I walk out to where the ewes and lambs are to call our bottle baby to me for feeding. She comes running, baaing all the way. Then I must walk with her at my side to integrate her back into the herd that is grazing on 13+ mostly heavily wooded acres. I have discovered that if I am VERY quiet it is easier for her to leave my side and run over to the other babies. A cough or a sneeze, or even a whisper keeps her at my side.
In my silence I, for some unknown reason, find myself singing Mary Had A Little Lamb in my head. The lyrics "It MADE the children laugh and play" really bothers me as I see it as one of life's early lessons of teaching children not to be responsible for their own behavior. I am old now, but I spent years raising my children to know that no one MAKES them do anything. They are responsible for what they think, do and say, where all along, when they were little I read and sang nursery rhymes to them.
I looked up the rhyme and it was written by by Sarah Josepha in 1830 based upon a real incident that happened at a schoolhouse.
The first four lines were the first words of recorded speech. They are the words uttered by Thomas Edison into his new invention -- the phonograph.
Over thinking or not, all this will go through my head again at Wimberly's next feeding.
In my silence I, for some unknown reason, find myself singing Mary Had A Little Lamb in my head. The lyrics "It MADE the children laugh and play" really bothers me as I see it as one of life's early lessons of teaching children not to be responsible for their own behavior. I am old now, but I spent years raising my children to know that no one MAKES them do anything. They are responsible for what they think, do and say, where all along, when they were little I read and sang nursery rhymes to them.
I looked up the rhyme and it was written by by Sarah Josepha in 1830 based upon a real incident that happened at a schoolhouse.
The first four lines were the first words of recorded speech. They are the words uttered by Thomas Edison into his new invention -- the phonograph.
Over thinking or not, all this will go through my head again at Wimberly's next feeding.
