Before writing my book about learning at home, I was a La Leche League Leader for many years, helping mothers breastfeed their babies. After writing and publishing my book and as my children reached their late teen, early twenty years,  I became an infant massage instructor and taught new parents how to massage their babies just as I had massaged my own babies years before.  The baby massage classes showed me that there was a need in my community (Victoria, BC) for a program of songs and fingerplays for parents and their babies, so I developed and taught one. It is such a delight when I go to the grocery store now, to unexpectedly meet moms  who remember me from those classes and introduce me to their babies who are now preteens and teens. Because I taught these classes fairly recently, I could recall many of the fingerplays and recite them when I played with my young grandchildren.