cookies

Oftentimes as we drive away from dropping off the elder lad at preschool, my younger lad will say "Should we bake chocolate chip [or breakfast] cookies?" Always a fine idea, I think.

We've hit upon a charming set of books by Amy Krouse Rosenthal (illustrated by Jane Dyer and Brooke Dyer) featuring cherubic little children and animals making, eating, sharing (or not), and musing about cookies.  As they do, various words like patient, perseverent, compassionate, moderation, trustworthy, considerate, and fair (among many others) are explained in cookie-themed easy-to-understand terminology.  Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons, Christmas Cookies: Bite-Size Holiday Lessons, and Sugar Cookies: Sweet Little Lessons on Love are delectable ways to introduce or reinforce these lessons in charity and virtue.