Teach Kids Peace

Wine isn’t something any child should have access to.  Vines and grapes on the other hand, might be.

Grape vines are one of the great teaching plants for young children.  Aside from going through an entire seasonal cycle, they are incredibly resilient and can be watered an incredible amount, or they can be hardly watered at all.  Plus, they are low enough to the ground for children to be able to see the grapes growing throughout the entire year.

Of course, October brings a special surprise, the ability to pick and eat the grapes you’ve grown and watched for an entire year.  Having your children help grow grapes will help to teach patience and responsibility.  I think those are two traits which are essential to teaching children that peace is important in this world.  Without patience, finding world peace likely sounds like an impossible dream.  Without responsibility, peace will never be possible.

Even a wine of the month club can appreciate that grapes are sometimes not best used for wine.

The original Woodstock poster  billed the now legendary festival as “3 days of Peace and Music” that were being offered in White Lake, NY, a place that many of the people who intended to travel to see all of the famous names had never heard of.

The original artwork used on the poster was created by Arnold Skolnick. The image of white dove perched at the end of a guitar has become an iconic piece of art in its own right and won Skolnick both international acclaim and a place in history. What you may not know is that the New York graphic artist was only given three days to create and deliver his work to festival organizers. Amazingly enough although the famous image has made millions of dollars for  various people over the years all that Skolnick ever made off it was a single royalty check for $15 when he delivered the project to his employer!