Last night’s bedtime story was Holes and Peeks by Ann Jonas. I was really tired and was glad that it was one of those easy stories. It’s a good book now that my child is learning to read. The easy words and repetitive style of the author makes word recognition a breeze.

I was watching A Place of Our Own a show for parents focused on parenting skills and tips. One of the pointers made for that particular series was that children behave better when they are aware and know what the consequences are of doing something. The better able they are in predicting the consequence to an action, the easier it will be [...]

This week has been an emotionally charged one for my child. Last week he said goodbye to his Korean classmate who was going to live in New Jersey and this week he had to say goodbye to another classmate who was relocating to Chicago. For the kids who were leaving, starting over in a new [...]

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle is probably a classic picture book for kids. It is a simple story about the number of food items a very hungry caterpillar eats each day of the week until he finally suffers a stomachache, eats a leaf and creates a cocoon from which he emerges two weeks [...]

In Little Monster Did It! by Helen Cooper, a little girl misbehaves and becomes a nuisance at home with the arrival of a younger sibling. The story begins with her parents presenting a soft toy - Little Monster - to her before they left to the hospital. Upon their return with the baby, things go terribly [...]