Fun books for kids and Moms, from Gymboree!
My 28 month old daughter soaks up information like the proverbial sponge, with her vocabulary increasing every day-she speaks in sentences now and tells us JOKES!-and she LOVES to learn new things. Even after eleven years of parenting, I am always looking for creative suggestions on ways to teach concepts and have fun at [...]
Mama Rock’s Rules-Common sense parenting advice
The full title is Mama Rock’s Rules: Ten Lessons for Raising a Houseful of Successful Children, and the co-authors are Rose Rock, mother of actor/comedian Chris Rock, and Valerie Graham. Rose Rock raised ten biological children, 17 foster children, and an assortment of other children who hung out at her house.
Each of [...]
The Cure for Modern Life
The Cure for Modern Life was not an easy book for me to read. I had read and enjoyed author Lisa Tucker’s book Once Upon A Day, and reviewed it for MotherTalk, so I was looking forward to reading this book as well when MotherTalk asked for volunteers. The main character is Matthew Connelly, an [...]
Your Child’s Strengths-a book for everyone
Parent Bloggers Network sent me a copy of Your Child’s Strengths by Jenifer Fox, M-Ed, the president of the Purnell School, creator of the award-winning, groundbreaking strengths-based curriculum The Affinities Program, and the leader of the Strengths Movement in Schools. I knew I would enjoy reading the book, because my nine year old son [...]
Catch the “Happiness Wave”
Marci Shimoff, co-author of Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul and featured teacher of the bestselling book The Secret has released Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out. In the book, Shimoff discusses a method for raising your happiness “set-point”, in other words, getting to a point where [...]
Book Review-”Crawling” and “A Good Night Walk”
Elisha Cooper wrote and illustrated children’s books for years before becoming a parent himself, a situation he did not expect since he really didn’t care much for children in person. And parents-parents were former married couples who used to go to movies and out to dinner at fine restaurants. Beginning with the day his wife [...]
Great gift ideas from Scholastic!
The more reports there are in the news about toy recalls, the more we as parents are looking for alternatives this Christmas. And one great idea for gifts is books! If you have a child in elementary school, you have probably heard of Scholastic. They hold book sales at schools and send home those paper [...]
MotherTalk-The Thirteenth Tale
Have you ever had a secret? The kind of secret that you eventually just have to confess to someone? Which was harder, keeping the secret, or confessing it?
Secrets and confessions form the basis for the book The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. Mysterious and reclusive author Vida Winter, who, in the book, is the “most [...]
