Verge of Extinction; Self-Love
One day I decided to give the boys some home lessons on American plants and animals that are endangered and on the brink extinction. We learned about the American chestnut tee (and its revival), the Texas Golden Gladecress, the Crimson Hawaiian Damselfyl, The Grey Wolf, American Bison, the West Indian Manatee, we even discovered the debate regarding redheads going extinct. As we tumbled through National Geographic’s, World Wildlife books and Nature Conservancy sites, I was explaining what it meant to…