Given the serious topics of the last few parenting titles I’ve blogged about, Amy Spencer’s Bright Side Up is a breath of fresh air. As parents, we know only too…
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Derren Brown is a performer in England who combines the powers of suggestion and psychology into his act in order to, as he says, “seemingly predict and control human behavior.”…
“The rate and scale of change engulfing the world is creating a tidal shift in how people live and earn their living,” Ken Robinson explains. “We now need to be…
“Everywhere I go,” writes Sir Ken Robinson, “I find the same paradox. Most children think they’re highly creative; most adults think they’re not. This is a bigger issue than it…
It’s hard not to be disheartened by the findings of the 2007 study To Read or Not To Read, “Half of the adults in this country do not read either…
What if schools, tasked with teaching our children to read, were actually systematically killing their love of literature? According to Kelly Gallagher, author of Read-i-cide: How Schools Are Killing Reading…
Want to show your children how much you love them? According to Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell, you can employ the following methods to discover your child’s primary love language:…
“In modern society, raising emotionally healthy children is an increasingly difficult task,” explains Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell. But as far as these authors of The Five Love Languages of…
“Kids today have twelve hours less of free time each week than they did in 1981,” according to the University of Michigan. This is problematic for a variety of reasons,…
If you think homework overload is interfering with your family life and jeopardizing your child’s wellbeing, you’re not alone. “We were surprised to discover that homework overload is happening from…
Since I started blogging at Parenting by the Book for Richmond Family Magazine, I have read twenty-four titles from experts on everything from our kids’ disconnect with nature to the…
Last week, while reviewing holiday wish lists, I let my daughters know that some items were on backorder. My oldest remarked, “What’s Santa been doing all year?” It struck me…
