From Frazzled to Focused
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I’m not sure what initially motivated me to pick up this book when I saw that it was available for review. I wouldn’t self-identify as “frazzled,” but I am always…
Parenting and Family Books
Time Spent Together
The National Family Institute reported that the average American child spends 12.5 minutes each day communicating with her parents. Of that time, 8.5 minutes are spent on corrections, criticisms, or…
Really good in the end…
My rating: I must admit that I was initially very skeptical of this book. I thought it might be punitive, guilt-based parenting in disguise, and I wrote about that in…
Tolerance levels
I’m in a mad whirlwind while trying to finish up the 50 or so books that I have started but not finished in the past few years, so my posts…
Dream houses and fantasies
This is my new favorite book! There are so many great sections, but I want to focus today on her chapter on the fantasy of housekeeping and “dream houses”. There…
“The criminalization of natural play”
I just started reading Last Child in the Woods, and I am finding it enjoyable so far. I’m not sure if it is going to make it on my “favorites”…
Comfort foods
Today I was reading in Mindless Eating about comfort foods and the differences between what women choose and what men choose. What’s the big difference between men and women? When…
You can’t set boundaries on other people
Back when I was first married – when dinosaurs roamed the earth – someone gave me this book. I think I picked it up for a moment and realized that…
I first started How Would Jesus Raise a Child back in 2004. Its been a long time. I’m about to go into year 3 with this book, and its only…
Autism… I now realize how little I understood
..or maybe I should say I’m starting to realize how little I understood…. I’ve been reading The Only Boy in the World this week, and it has really made me…
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