Title: What to Read When: The Books and Stories to Read with Your Child--and All the Best Times to Read Them Author: Pam Allyn Publication Year: 2009 Website: pamallyn.com Amazon Product Page (Affiliate Link) Review: In my opinion, there are much better resources of great children’s literature, not ...
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Mind in the Making
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Title: Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs Author: Ellen Galinsky Publication Year: 2010 Website: mindinthemaking.org Amazon Product Page (Affiliate Link) Review: I fully agree that the seven life skills the author chooses as necessary are definitely extremely ...
Einstein Never Used Flashcards
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Title: Einstein Never Used Flashcards: How Our Children Really Learn--and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less Author: Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Diane Eyer Publication Year: 2003 Amazon Product Page (Affiliate Link) Review: I think this book has a really important ...
Last Child in the Woods
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Title: Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder Author: Richard Louv Publication Year: 2008 Website: richardlouv.com Amazon Product Page (Affiliate Link) Review: It’s not that I disagree with the intent of this book, but in the middle of my busy life, I felt like ...
Tools of the Mind
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Title: Tools of the Mind: The Vygotskian Approach to Early Childhood Education Author: Elena Bodrova and Deborah J. Leong Publication Year: 2007 Website: www.toolsofthemind.org Amazon Product Page (Affiliate Link) Review: I bought this book because one of the chapers in the book, Nurture Shock, ...
Unbored: The Essential Field Guide to Serious Fun
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Title: Unbored: The Essential Field Guide to Serious Fun Author: Joshua Glenn and Elizabeth Foy Larsen Publication Year: 2012 Website: unbored.net Amazon Product Page (Affiliate Link) Review: This book is really a compilation of a bunch of different articles written by a bunch of different people. ...
Robotics: Discover the Science and Technology of the Future
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Title: Robotics: Discover the Science and Technology of the Future with 20 Projects Author: Kathy Ceceri Publication Year: 2012 Website: www.craftsforlearning.com Amazon Product Page (Affiliate Link) Review: I have multiple degrees in engineering and, like most nerds, I think robots are awesome. ...
Nurture Shock
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Title: Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children Author: Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman Publication Year: 2009 Website: www.nurtureshock.com/ Amazon Product Page (Affiliate Link) Review: I was fully prepared to not care much for this book. I don’t know what’s wrong with me, but I tend to find ...
Math Doesn’t Suck
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Title: Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail Author: Danica McKellar Publication Year: 2009 Website: www.danicamckellar.com Amazon Product Page (Affiliate Link) Review: I love math. There are also a couple decades between me and middle ...
School as a Journey
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Title: School as a Journey: The Eight-Year Odyssey of a Waldorf Teacher and His Class Author: Torin Finser Publication Year: 1994 Website: www.antiochne.edu Amazon Product Page (Affiliate Link) Review: I wanted to like this book. I paid $8 for a used copy on Amazon since my library has a shockingly ...
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