Reviews
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Summer Word Search Fun
My oldest has been making a notebook filled with math worksheets and other things in preparation for the summer trips we’ve been planning. She'll be able to keep herself busy while also practicing everything she learned this past year. (Essentially, she's created a notebook of things to avoid the “summer slide.”)
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Book Review—It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
How to Talk with Your Child about Sex Do you have an older child or teen? Have you talked with them about puberty and sex yet? I didn’t think the puberty talk was that bad. Really, it was a series of smaller talks as I’ve always been very open with my girls, from a young age, about menstruation and the changes that happen during puberty. (You kind of have to be when they follow you into the bathroom as a toddler.) I also signed my oldest daughter up for a class through her school with some of her peers that helped make sure all the bases were covered as far…
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Gifting Books During the Christmas Countdown Can Earn You a Free Book!
The countdown to Christmas has begun in my family. Each morning, my girls eagerly enter our living room to add another ornament to our Advent Tree and to move the snowflake to show just how many days remain until that magical day. For children, Christmas is full of magic, joy, and excitement. For parents/grandparents/friends, we have that too, at least I do, but it also comes with the job of finding just the right gifts. With this in mind, I thought I would share some Barefoot Book gift ideas that children will love to receive and adults will feel good about giving. With everything that is going on in the…
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Children’s Book Review
I read a lot of children’s books, as I’m sure a lot of other parents with young children do. I don’t think other parents read them the same way I do though. At least not the majority of them. As a writer, I’m constantly analyzing books as I read them to my daughter, to see what works and what doesn’t. Some kid’s books make me wonder why they were published. Others, it’s obvious. One book we recently checked out from the library made me laugh out loud. It’s obvious why it was published. It’s the cutest
