Meeting a skilled storyteller should be a must for travelling families who are eager to add another dimension to their experiences and make sense of the place in a different light. My girls being suckers for good stories, I organized our trip on Skye so we would spend a day with the man behind the [...]
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What makes children creative? What makes them come up with something that captivates them or others? Or as defined by neuroscientist Rex Jung, what makes children create ”something both novel and useful”? Books are a great source of inspiration for kids as they take them into worlds where anything is possible, spurring their creative minds to imagine [...]
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The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop Novel by Kate Saunders My 7-year old just started reading books by herself this year and I was looking for an opportunity to give her a longer read that still held her interest. She’s clearly beyond The Magic Tree House books but the only book that’s kept her attention from [...]
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Books My Girls Are Reading is a short column in the weekly Frog Mom newsletter that tells readers exactly what my girls are reading right now. It’s not long, it’s more like a bedtime read update. It features a book per girl, though my 9-year old is such a voracious reader that she occasionally gets more. [...]
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Before she hops on a Spain-bound plane with her two daughters to hike 500 miles of El Camino de Santiago, I caught up with hiker extraordinaire Patricia Ellis Herr, author of the book Up: A Mother and Daughter’s Peakbagging Adventure (which I reviewed recently). Not only did she write a book about how her 5-year [...]
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