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My current favorite children’s book is The Dot. It’s about a girl who doesn’t think she can draw. Her teacher urged her to try so “Vashti grabbed a marker and gave the paper a good, strong jab.” While some teachers might reprimand a student for not trying or for being sassy, this teacher says, “Sign . . . → Read More: Read This: The Dot One of the debates I’ve heard (and engaged in) with other moms is about teaching manners. I grew up calling my friends’ parents by their first names, so when I moved to Texas and everyone said, “Ma’am” and “Sir,” I didn’t like it. It felt too formal, authoritarian, and didn’t jive at all with my . . . → Read More: Read These Books About Manners  4 comments  Posted on January 25th, 2012 in Read This, Reviews  children's book recommendations, maurice sendak, mind your manners, sesyle joslin, teaching children manners I like books: paper books, audiobooks, but reading books on “readers” is something I’ve avoided as long as there have been readers. Yep, I’m one of those folks who dreads this idea of a paper-less society. Unless we’re talking newspapers. I can’t stand holding those, getting the ink on my hands, trying to fold the . . . → Read More: Kindle-ing One comment Posted on September 18th, 2011 in Read This Book club, Kindle, paper books vs. readers, the help This summer has felt like a never-ending day, you know the ones when your kid won’t go to sleep and you just need a little time to yourself, and when you eventually get it you have energy for nothing but watching television or going to sleep yourself. Yep, it’s been that kind of summer. The . . . → Read More: Back to Bedtime 2 comments Posted on August 30th, 2011 in Parenting, Read This, Sleep bedtime, bedtime routines, go the f**k to sleep, Parenting, summer messes up bedtime My son and I have been visiting Never Land for months, not Michael Jackson’s Never Land, but the world of Peter Pan. Audiobooks are one of Cavanaugh’s and my favorite ways to travel in our car or even spend an afternoon by the LEGO table. Is there anyone out there who doesn’t love having someone . . . → Read More: Read This: Peter Pan + Prequels One comment Posted on May 25th, 2011 in Happiness, Parenting, Read This audiobooks with kids, book reviews, Never Land series, Peter Pan, starcatchers series My boy isn’t home tonight so I can’t read him bedtime stories. Instead, I’ll share some of our current favorites with you. About a year ago, I had to give up on picture books. Though we loved Kitten’s First Full Moon, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, and just about anything by Tad Hills, Cavanaugh . . . → Read More: Bedtime Stories 2 comments Posted on May 9th, 2011 in Activities, Parenting, Read This, Reviews bedtime stories, chapter book reviews, magic school bus, magic tree house, secrets of droon When my ex and I started trying to get pregnant the first time, we started talking about church. He’d grown up in the Methodist Church, been president of his church group, gone to a Methodist college on scholarship. He felt like we needed to raise our child in the church, or at least have some . . . → Read More: Get Your God On 2 comments Posted on November 3rd, 2010 in Parenting, Read This, Self Care, Spiritual faith, introducing children to god, Parenting, spirituality Cavanaugh and I just finished reading one of the most magical books I have ever read (and I have read 1000s of books!): The Invention of Hugo Cabret – a novel in words and pictures I am shocked this book was published because of its stunning format–a combination of narrative and illustrations, both of which . . . → Read More: Read This: Hugo Cabret Check out my essay, “How Did I Get Roped Into This?” in Contemporary American Women: Our Defining Passages, available this month from All Things That Matter Press. This will make a great Christmas present for those beautiful strong women (or men) in your life. And for you professors, this exciting nonfiction anthology addresses women’s issues . . . → Read More: Count Me a Contemporary American Woman Leave a comment Posted on December 17th, 2009 in Read This all things that matter press, Contemporary American Women: Our Defining Passages, sonya feher, texts for women's studies courses A whole lot of my friends are either pregnant or have just had babies so I’ve been referring to this list a lot. Thought it was time for a repost of these resources I was grateful for or wish I’d had when we brought the baby home from the hospital. Better yet, I wish I’d . . . → Read More: Books (& DVD) to Bring the Baby Home 4 comments Posted on December 2nd, 2009 in Baby/Infant, Breastfeeding, Read This, Reviews, Sleep book list for new parents, bringing the baby home, help with a newborn, resources for new parents, the baby book |
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