One of our favorite book series is the Frances series by Russell Hoban. Frances is a young badger, and her escapades with bedtime battles, friend troubles, picky eating, new babies in the house, and birthday jealousies are accompanied by Frances’s lovely little made-up songs.
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U is for Underwear |
Read the full article!| Posted in Books, Family Life, K-5 | No Comments » | Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 | |
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The Butterfly and the Pirate |
Ahoy, mateys!
| Posted in Books, K-5, Preschoolers | 1 Comment » | Thursday, June 17th, 2010 | |
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Dear Barnes and Noble, |
I suppose I should first apologize if the Fancy Nancy and Berenstain Bear books are re-shelved incorrectly. They did indeed try their best to put them back neatly.
In fact, their behavior upstairs was so stellar that I suppose I let my guard down on our trip to the check-out.
| Posted in Books, Family Life, Motherhood / Parenthood, Shopping | 2 Comments » | Thursday, May 20th, 2010 | |
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Free Books at Borders! |
Because I love the words “FREE” and “BOOK,” and I love them even more in the same sentence, I’m letting all of you readers know about this wonderful Double Dog Dare summer reading promotion that Borders Books is running.
| Posted in Books, K-5, Shopping | 1 Comment » | Friday, May 14th, 2010 | |
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Potty Training: Where Ideals Meet Reality |
My husband and I deemed not over praising Lucy one of our parenting core values. In fact, this core value is so important to us that one of the reasons Lucy will be attending a Montessori preschool next year (besides the fact that it’s one of the two schools that accepted her) is because one of Montessori’s basic tenets is fostering intrinsic motivation, so there is generally no giving of evaluative praise or rewards in a Montessori classroom.
Enter potty training. It’s the classic case of ideals meeting reality.
| Posted in Books, Child Development, Family Life, Motherhood / Parenthood, Toddlers | 3 Comments » | Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 | |
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Need a Good Cry AND a Pick-Me Up? |
I’m sure that many of you have already viewed this on YouTube, but it’s worth sharing and watching again. Author (and more importantly, mother) Kendra Kenison’s new memoir about motherhood and nurturing is called The Gift of An Ordinary Day. In this YouTube clip, Kenison reads an excerpt from her book, which is accompanied by family photos.
| Posted in Books, Family Life, Motherhood / Parenthood | No Comments » | Sunday, February 28th, 2010 | |
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What We’re Reading Right Now… |
We read a lot at this house. Our bookshelves in the family room are stuffed every which way with historical fiction novels, poetry anthologies, professional guides, self-help books, modern-day war stories, contemporary literature, and my mom’s favorite, book about African snakes.
| Posted in Books, Preschoolers, Shopping | 2 Comments » | Monday, February 22nd, 2010 | |
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A Work in Progress: Motherhood |
I recently purchased a book, Steady Days, written by fellow blogger, Jamie C. Martin. She writes a blog called Steady Mom, on the journey toward intentional, professional motherhood. I like that tagline. Read it again, “intentional, professional motherhood.” To paraphrase Jamie, what if we all began each day with our children as intentionally and as professionally as we approached our careers in those former lives before we had children?
I wish, I seriously wish, that someone had posed that question to me when I first became a mother.
| Posted in Books, Motherhood / Parenthood, Shopping | 4 Comments » | Thursday, January 28th, 2010 | |
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Slacker Mom No Longer |
It’s happened. It’s finally happened. After two and a half years of skipping words and turning past whole pages of books, my son has finally caught on and called me on my tricks. I will no longer be able to be a slacker mom and rush through a book ever again.
| Posted in Books, Preschoolers | No Comments » | Thursday, November 19th, 2009 | |
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The V-Word |
Annabel, my four and a half year-old, is learning to read. Part of this process is just exposure to books, part of it is “sight” words (like “STOP” or “No” or “Publix”), and part of it is memorization. She’d memorized all of The Cat in the Hat almost two years ago. Now, she’s moved on to Curious George books, too. But my favorite part about it is her complete confidence in herself that she can read ANY word, ANY book.
And she can’t.
| Posted in Books, Motherhood / Parenthood, Preschoolers | 1 Comment » | Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 | |
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