Ask me to recite just about any Dr. Seuss book (or Fancy Nancy, or Eric Carle) and I’ll probably be able to do it from memory. Do you want to know the lyrics to a Veggie Tales song? How about the Imagination Movers? It’s all stored in my head, and I don’t think it’s [...]
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I’ve been reading to my daughter since a few days after she was born. I even packed a few picture books in my hospital bag, but we were too busy trying to get the breastfeeding thing working that I didn’t read to her in the hospital.
Just the other night, my 15-week old daughter realized that [...]
Tags: books, children, Dr. Seuss, Eric Carle, Goodnight Moon, Grover, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, infants, Jan Brett, Karen Katz, Laura Numeroff, reading, The Hat
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I found a wonderful little book for my baby today: Haiku Baby by Betsy Snyder. Each poem is short (haikus have 3 lines, 5 syllables each) and is about nature. Each one inspires emotion and even action when you read to your little one. When I read rain to my eight month old, he loved [...]
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Just as I turned to pregnancy books before my little one was born, I turned to parenting books in the first few weeks after her birth.
Here is a short list of the titles I would recommend, buy for close friends and keep on my bookshelf for years to come.
Tags: AP, Attachment Parenting, baby freebies, books, Dr. Sears, Elizabeth Pantley, Heidi Murkoff, mother goose, no-cry sleep, nursery rhymes, Parenting, songs, What to Expect
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I don’t know if it’s global warming, but we are still playing outside and it’s November. The weather seems to be planning to return to it’s regularly scheduled broadcast, and there’s snow for later this week. So as is much more normal for this time of year, it’s time to find inside activities for my [...]
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