I often get one of two responses when I talk to parents about reading with their children. On one end of the spectrum, I hear “I love reading with my kids, we read every day, it’s so fun!”. On the other end, I hear parents say “I want to read with my children but it’s…
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Cultural Awareness & Empathy: Teaching Global Love To Your Children Through Books
In a world that often challenges the ideas of global love and cultural awareness, it is more important than ever to encourage our children to love all people. This Valentine’s Day and throughout the entire year, I encourage you to lead by example and through your books & activities, to show your children that we…
Setting & Achieving a Family Reading Goal
It’s a new year (or maybe when you’re reading this it’s sometime in October and you’re sipping a pumpkin spiced latte…)! Regardless, you want to set a reading goal for yourself, your kids and your family and you need all the tips and tricks. Well have I got some good news for you – you have…
Encouraging Your Friends & Family To Gift You the BEST Children’s Books
If you are hooked on the idea of building an intentional bookshelf for your family, you know how important it is to protect this bookshelf at all cost and fill it with only the best children’s books. Guarding our home library is an important job we parents have, just as important as protecting our children from other influences…
The Intentional Book Club: Make Reading Time Meaningful
I have a pretty huge announcement – I am talking mega huge. This blog has been around for over a year now, and in this past year I have shared quite a lot of things. There have been in-depth book reviews, features on intentional parents, long thoughtful posts about life and parenting and of course plenty of…
Five Clues that you’ve Found a GREAT Children’s Book for your Intentional Bookshelf
Listen & Learn Often times the bad things in our lives are easier to point out than the good. Flaws, imperfections, things we’d fix. I think the same goes for our bookshelves. It’s not too terribly hard to point out bad books especially once you know what to look for – you can read this whole…
Mandatory Hurricane Evacuation: Why to Pack Children’s Books for a Natural Disaster and How (+ the 10 books we’re taking)
I got a phone call from my husband that was fairly unexpected – he said we were going to need to evacuate our home because of Hurricane Irma. Given the devastation that just faced Texas after Hurricane Harvey, I immediately began thinking about all of the “what ifs” (you know, those terrible things you shouldn’t…
Utilizing Children’s Books for Separation Anxiety and Back to School (with special guest Julia Pappas)
Whether your child is going back to school, starting school for the first time or even just going off to a childcare…this can be a stressful time in their life (and honestly, in yours too). Separation anxiety is not uncommon to experience both from your child’s perspective and yours as well. In fact, as Julia Pappas,…
Why You Need To Fiercely Guard Your Children’s Bookshelf
We need to be guarding our children and their bookshelves like our animal counterparts; like a bear protects her young, and as a leopard growls at an approaching predator. Our precious offspring, our children, our squishy little malleable balls of clay are ready to be shaped and transformed. They need to be protected. Their value system and moral…
Value Modern Parenting Roles? Beware of these Two Deceitful Children’s Books!
I call these two children’s books deceitful, because they are. When we received the books, I Love My Mommy and I Love My Daddy by Igloo Books as a (well meaning) gift from my parents for Christmas I was naturally thrilled. Oh, a book about how awesome my husband and I are that we get to read to…