Trivium Pursuit » Podcasts http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog Christian Homeschooling in a Classical Style Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:16:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Podcast #4 Interview with Eloise Wilkin’s Daughter, Part Three http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/2007/02/21/podcast-4-interview-with-eloise-wilkins-daughter-part-three/ http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/2007/02/21/podcast-4-interview-with-eloise-wilkins-daughter-part-three/#comments Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:30:56 +0000 Laurie Bluedorn http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/2007/02/21/podcast-4-interview-with-eloise-wilkins-daughter-part-three/ Part three of an interview with Eloise Wilkin’s daughter, Deborah Wilkin Springett.

Hansel and Gretel, illustrated by Eloise Wilkin

Eloise Wilkin Stories

]]> http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/2007/02/21/podcast-4-interview-with-eloise-wilkins-daughter-part-three/feed/ 1 Podcast #3 Interview with Eloise Wilkin’s Daughter, Part Two http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/2007/02/21/podcast-3-interview-with-eloise-wilkins-daughter-part-two/ http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/2007/02/21/podcast-3-interview-with-eloise-wilkins-daughter-part-two/#comments Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:11:48 +0000 Laurie Bluedorn http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/2007/02/21/podcast-3-interview-with-eloise-wilkins-daughter-part-two/ Part two of an interview with Eloise Wilkin’s daughter, Deborah Wilkin Springett.

Eloise Wilkin dolls
Photo used with permission by Deborah Wilkin Springett

The Boy with a Drum, illustrated by Eloise Wilkin

]]> http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/2007/02/21/podcast-3-interview-with-eloise-wilkins-daughter-part-two/feed/ 2 Podcast #2 Interview with Eloise Wilkin’s Daughter, Part One http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/2007/02/21/podcast-2-interview-with-eloise-wilkins-daughter-part-one/ http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/2007/02/21/podcast-2-interview-with-eloise-wilkins-daughter-part-one/#comments Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:04:59 +0000 Laurie Bluedorn http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/2007/02/21/podcast-2-interview-with-eloise-wilkins-daughter-part-one/ When I was ten years old someone gave me Baby Dear – a children’s picturebook illustrated by Eloise Wilkin. That copy doesn’t exist any more because I wore out the pages. Recently I purchased a new one, and all the thoughts I used to think when reading that book 45 years ago came back. The story is about a little girl who, right before her mother and father bring a new baby home from the hospital, is given a baby doll. In the story, the little girl feeds her “baby” when Mommy feeds her baby; she changes her baby’s diapers when Mommy changes the baby; they take carriage rides together and tuck them into bed at the same time.

We smile at our babies and talk to them. Mommy says this is the way our babies know they are the most wonderful babies in the world.

In one scene, the little girl and Mommy are in the nursery tending their babies. Mommy is folding diapers and storing them away in the little white dresser while the little girl is rocking the real baby. There is an armoire filled with baby things and an old-time playpen. My ten-year-old self wished with all her might that she had a room just like that one. In another Eloise Wilkin classic We Help Mommy I wanted a dust mop just like the one in the picture so I could clean under the furniture, too, and the miniature clothesline with clothespins was irresistible. The little girl in that book was so lucky, I always thought. She could help her Mommy do all the house work, and it really wasn’t work at all, but play. I wonder if the influence of these Wilkin books had a hand many years later in helping me to easily incorporate my own children into the housework. It always seemed so natural to expect my young children to work when I worked, and when we finished we could read or play.

In this podcast we interview one of Eloise Wilkin’s daughters — Deborah Springett. The interview is a long one, so we’ve divided it into three parts. Here is Part One.

The Golden Years of Eloise Wilkin by Eloise Wilkin and Deborah Wilkin Springett

You can purchase a copy of this book directly from Mrs. Springett:

D. Springett
PMB 188, 3510 Fair Oaks Blvd.
Sacramento CA 95864

The cost is $24.45 (CA residents add $1.69).

]]> http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/2007/02/21/podcast-2-interview-with-eloise-wilkins-daughter-part-one/feed/ 3 Our Very First Podcast http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/2006/12/19/our-very-first-podcast/ http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/2006/12/19/our-very-first-podcast/#comments Wed, 20 Dec 2006 03:36:22 +0000 Laurie Bluedorn http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/2006/12/19/our-very-first-podcast/ Welcome to our very first Trivium Pursuit podcast. Hans and I will be working on these together — he’ll take care of all the technical parts of the podcast and I’ll do the posting. This first podcast is pretty short and simple — an excerpt from one of our seminars. Let me know if it works for you and don’t forget to enter the Equivocation Contest.

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