What is This Childhood?: Finding the Spirit of Early Childhood in Language and Creative Living with Our FamiliesThis book explores the consciousness of the young child through language development, often in their own words. The childs early utterances reveal a unity of word and experience and of experience and meaning. Children live more fully in perception than conception. Yet, speech as it unfolds eventually leads the child to abstraction, self consciousness, and critical thinking. This journey into childhood will deepen the quality of our attention and