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Earlier this month it was time for my son to visit the doctor and he was almost certainly going to be getting at least one shot. He's been afraid of shots ever since he got a very traumatic one during an emergency room visit (traumatic f...
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One of my favorite parts of the movie "Elf".. actually scratch that. I'm a card-carrying Millennial. ALL of "Elf" is my favorite part. Do you know the part where they are introducing Buddy the Elf's dad Walter Hobbs to the viewers? They ...
Read the post →"Oh I would never read Junie B. Jones to my kids, she's such a bad influence!" If you are a parent of a 5+ child you've probably heard this before. Luckily I didn't hear it before I first started reading the Junie B. Jones series to my k...
Read the post →Every parent wants to get their kid to love reading. Ok, not all parents (no judgement.. mostly), but I'd say it's mostly a consensus that reading is an activity worth pursuing. Video games? That one's still up in the air (I'm pro btw, a...
Read the post →Books like Goodnight Moon and The Very Hungry Caterpillar were the initial inspiration for getting so interested in children's books in the first place. What makes them special? What separates the really great ones from the ones you don'...
Goodnight Moon is such a classic that it's possibly the book that got me so interested in children's books in general. It's one of those books where you read it for the first time and it doesn't make a lot of sense. But there's something...
Every single dinner in our house needs to end with a dessert, and my kids will use every line in the book to get it. "Oh, but I ate my vegetables." "Oh, but I always get it." "Oh, but my little brother got one yesterday that was really b...
In order to get my kids upstairs, finally, to start getting ready for bed, we'll turn it into a game, a "chase me up the stairs" kind of game where either I chase them or they chase me. From my perspective it's clearly just a really fast...
When she was in Kindergarten, my daughter didn't like PE for one specific reason. Every time it was a PE day at school, she'd come home with a new horror story to tell of what antics a certain classmate was up to. Only going after her wh...