Where Reading is a Way of Life
The past several Saturdays have been dedicated to books for educators. This weeks book is not written just for educators, but is a book that parents and teachers can benefit from reading – The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Child & Adolescent Psychology. If you’ve every taken an educational psychology book (I’m talk to the teachers [...]
30 Things He Told Me But Can’t Tell You Because You Won’t Listen by Mischa P. Green is a how to book for women who feel the need to communicate with the men in their lives. Women often find men to be lacking in communication. The fact is simply that men and women communicate differently [...]
This week I reread a book that I am excited to say I won this year during a presentation by the author. No Teacher Left Behind by Bryan Fiese. I was interested in the beginning because of the title. Yep, after so much emphasis has been put on the No Child Left Behind Legislation, I [...]
Embraced by hundreds of thousands of parents across Europe and Scandinavia, For the Love of Children is now available in English.With a combination of step-by-step instructions, For the Love of Children provides parents with the information, inspiration, and confidence to create and maintain a flock where children can enjoy life and be enjoyed. The book [...]
Ben Behind His Voices: One Family’s Fourney From the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope is the “story” of Ben who starts out as a normal every day child, but then things change during his teenage years. Ben is struck by schizophrenia. He has seven psychotic breaks and seven hospitalizations before he is diagnosed. The focus [...]
My daughter is 11 going on 30, and I am always looking for books for her to read. She likes the traditional books of girls her age, but I also like to encourage her to read more than just everyday fiction. Being a fan of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, I was delighted [...]
As a new grandmother, I have been looking for good parenting books for my daughter. While there are some of the traditional ones, I’ve also looked for titles that I haven’t read before. The Essential Guide to Baby’s First Year by Erika Landau, MD and Abigail Brenner, MD is one of the books that I’ve [...]
Do you sometimes wish you had a “box of tricks” when it comes to parenting? Dr. Douglas A Riley has created just that, a box of out of the ordinary solutions to everyday parenting solutions. From how to deal with your child’s mouth when you don’t like what’s coming out of it, door slammers, messy [...]
When I taught Pre-AP English, I always started my students with reading Great Expectations so when I heard about The Great Expectations School: A Rookie Year in the New Blackboard Jungle by Dan Brown, I was interested in reading it before evening knowing more. Product Description At the age of twenty-two, Dan Brown came to [...]
Kids wrote the rule book on texting. Now parents are trying to learn the rules, and Lauren Kaelin and Sophia Fraiolo are here to record all of the mishaps that happen when “old fingers meet tiny keypads.” I had never heard of this website (www.whenparentstext.com) until I received the books to review, and now I [...]
