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Lies I’ve Told My Kid While Reading

Here are just a few of the lies I’ve told my beautiful, trusting daughter while we were reading together. (Don’t judge me.)

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Tips & Advice

Putting My Monkey to Bed: The Sleep Time Struggles and Successes That Inspired My Latest Story

Author Gennifer Choldenko's son loved playing, crawling, building, and climbing; what he didn’t love was sleeping.

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Pre-K

Growing Reader

9 Books to Help Kids Manage Their Fears and Phobias

Fear comes in many shapes and sizes. Thankfully, there are some great books available to help kids with their fears and phobias.

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Pre-K

Growing Reader

Tween

Reality Is Overrated: 5 Completely Insane Books You Should Read with Your Kid

Here are some of my favorite books for young readers where science and fantasy lose their minds and the odd and outlandish soar to weird new heights.

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Baby & Toddler

Pre-K

Potty Training 101: Helpful Books for Kids and Their Parents

For all of you looking for some great potty training resources, I hope these lists of books — one for you and one for your child — will be helpful.

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Grown-Up Reads

Blame the Book: Parenting by Decade

If you’re a parent today, you’ve likely been shaped by both the books and parenting ideologies of your parents and those of today.

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Grown-Up Reads

Adopting a Child with Special Needs: 5 Books to Help Along the Way

When parenting my child felt like being alone in an unstable little boat, out on choppy waters during a dark night, these books were like lighthouses.

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Tween

I Let My 9-Year-Old Read The Ocean at the End of the Lane and Other Parenting Confessions

When my husband announced that he’d given our eldest daughter The Ocean at the End of the Lane, I thought okay. He knows what he’s doing. Then I read the book. And I felt rather guilty indeed.

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Pre-K

Growing Reader

Tween

7 of the Best Children's Books About Divorce and Separation

Children's books about divorce or separation can be a helpful tool to help kids make sense of what's happening, process and talk about their feelings.

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Just For Fun

Grown-Up Reads

The 5 Most Disastrous Parents...in Fiction

As much as I try to be a good mother, the parents I like reading about are usually disastrously bad. Here are my top five worst fictional parents for when you feel like laughing — or crying.

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Grown-Up Reads

Tips & Advice

Stop Fighting, Kids! Everyday Activities That Help Siblings Get Along

What types of activities promote sibling bonding? Almost any kind, as long as they meet these three criteria.

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Grown-Up Reads

Tips & Advice

How Being a Parent Changed Reading for Me

I am an introvert by nature, and I value my alone time and my quiet time — growing up, reading afforded me both. But my relationship with books and reading changed when I had my twins.

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