This holiday season, Penguin Random House wants to use social media to spread the joy of reading to children in need throughout the U.S. Every time someone posts or tweets a message containing the hashtag #GiveaBook on Facebook or Twitter between now and 12/25, Penguin will donate a new book to Save the Children.
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Last night, out of the blue, The Seven-Year-Old pulled this picture book off the shelf and asked if she could read it to me. Listening to…
The other day while we were driving down one of Chicago’s highway, we were passed by a Hummer. Not just any Hummer, but a special one, one…
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Nearly every day, the Seven-Year-Old comes home from school with a tale of how one boy or another grossed her out at lunch so badly that she couldn’t eat — generally by chewing with his mouth open — a teachable moment if ever there was one — or by playing out bathroom humor with (in)appropriate sound effects around the lunch table.
Except for one glorious day last week.
While I enjoy all the rituals around Santa and the Easter Bunny, it is undoubtedly harder to teach your child that it’s important to care for others when your child’s world is populated by magical beings who are perfectly capable of doing all that work on their own. Here’s how I explained to my five-year-old why we can’t just sit back and expect someone else to do all the work of caring for others.
The Seven-Year-Old, enthusiastically: “It was so good I couldn’t even taste it!” Related Links: More Funny Stuff My Daughter Says (Caterpickles)
We are hosting Thanksgiving this year, and as usual, back when hosting was still a hypothetical prospect, The Seven-Year-Old and I got pretty excited about the possibilities. The Seven-Year-Old, brilliantly: “Mommyo, can we have an old-timey Thanksgiving?”
The Seven-Year-Old, wistfully: “I can still feel those teeth. I can feel their little souls still in me.” Of course, this didn’t keep her from trying…
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