Cherryleaf Library for Children Podcast
The Cherryleaf Library for Children presents books that could educate children. In our society, we need children’s books that are not simply entertaining and occupying children’s attention, but that educate them in the most profound sense of the word educate: Help them to form their character and identity. The contradictory messages of our society make the formation of character and identity quite problematic – that’s why by their teenage years so many children suffer from mental discomfort, which often turns into actual mental illness. These books do so not through the articulation of abstract principles but through the development of empathy and, especially, sympathy with the suffering of others, clearly distinguishing between good (which is equated with kindness) and evil (equated with cruelty), and helping the child to become a better human being.
Cherryleaf Library for Children Podcast
Without Family: Chapters 11-12
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Liah Greenfeld
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Season 1
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Episode 6
Rémi enjoys sleeping in a nice bed, eating good food, but most of all, the affection of Mrs. Milligan and Arthur. He learns that Mrs. Milligan had an older child who was kidnaped when he was six months old and never found. Soon after the husband's death, Arthur was born. Mrs. Milligan and Arthur want Rémi to stay with them but when Vitalis is released from jail, he takes Rémi from them, believing that hard life on the road would form the boy’s character and be better for him than the position of Arthur’s playmate.