The Gospel According to Dick and Jane...
Apr. 7th, 2020 11:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blogcutter... and Sally, sometimes referred to in those books as "Baby". This pandemic has dramatically changed how We Look and See; where We Work and Play; and whether We Come and Go.
In my home library, I have a book called Storybook Treasury of Dick and Jane and Friends. It contains the complete text of the three pre-primers that ageing boomers and WWII-era babies and even some Gen-Xers and Millennials know (but maybe don't love) so well: We Look and See, c1946 (copyright renewed 1974); We Come and Go, c1940 (copyright renewed 1968); and The New We Work and Play, c1956 (copyright renewed 1984). They formed a large part of my early schooling and they are an even more interesting read today.
I'm really not sure who is under the most stress these days. Is it the harried parent who's multi-tasking like crazy, trying to simultaneously look after the kids (and maybe an elderly parent who also lives on-site), teach them their school curriculum, maintain the household and telecommute to the pre-pandemic day job? Or is it the Covid-19 (or prospective Covid-19) invalid stuck at home alone in enforced idleness and self-isolation? I'll readily admit that it's not us, a couple in our sixties who can keep each other's spirits up, bake our own bread and put in an online order at the local Petsmart for OUR Puff, which we can then have delivered to the trunk of our car an hour later in the pet store's parking lot.
Still, worry can sap one's energy, so I think this is about all I'll write for today. But if you'd like to take a look at these literary classics I've just mentioned, you can "look inside" the book here:
https://www.amazon.ca/Storybook-Treasury-Dick-Jane-Friends/dp/0448433400/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=storybook+treasury+of+dick+and+jane&qid=1586278711&sr=8-1
In my home library, I have a book called Storybook Treasury of Dick and Jane and Friends. It contains the complete text of the three pre-primers that ageing boomers and WWII-era babies and even some Gen-Xers and Millennials know (but maybe don't love) so well: We Look and See, c1946 (copyright renewed 1974); We Come and Go, c1940 (copyright renewed 1968); and The New We Work and Play, c1956 (copyright renewed 1984). They formed a large part of my early schooling and they are an even more interesting read today.
I'm really not sure who is under the most stress these days. Is it the harried parent who's multi-tasking like crazy, trying to simultaneously look after the kids (and maybe an elderly parent who also lives on-site), teach them their school curriculum, maintain the household and telecommute to the pre-pandemic day job? Or is it the Covid-19 (or prospective Covid-19) invalid stuck at home alone in enforced idleness and self-isolation? I'll readily admit that it's not us, a couple in our sixties who can keep each other's spirits up, bake our own bread and put in an online order at the local Petsmart for OUR Puff, which we can then have delivered to the trunk of our car an hour later in the pet store's parking lot.
Still, worry can sap one's energy, so I think this is about all I'll write for today. But if you'd like to take a look at these literary classics I've just mentioned, you can "look inside" the book here:
https://www.amazon.ca/Storybook-Treasury-Dick-Jane-Friends/dp/0448433400/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=storybook+treasury+of+dick+and+jane&qid=1586278711&sr=8-1
