Boy: Tales of Childhood Lesson Plan

What do you think about Roald Dahl's father's theory about how children develop a "sense of beauty" (see "Papa and Mama")?

Dahl explains in "Papa and Mama" that his father believed in "a curious theory" about how children develop a "sense of beauty" (13), which is primarily focused on spending a great deal of time walking around in nature during the last three months of pregnancy. As Dahl puts it, during the third trimester his father would "announce to her [his wife] that 'the glorious walks' must begin" (13). These walks consisted of visiting places of great beauty in nature and spending a great deal of time admiring those places together during these hour-long walks,...