Being Asian means that you are all about food. Did you know that the greeting in Chinese, 你吃了吗？ {Ni (third tone) Chi (first tone) Le (first tone) Ma(third tone), means have you eaten yet?! The family-style serving platters set the tone; meals are meant to be eaten together! It’s no surprise that there are quite…
Please welcome my guest author, Selena Smith, who is covering the importance of body safety education for kids starting at age 3. Parents everywhere desperately want to keep their children safe. Children are told over and over not to play in the street, always wear seatbelts, don’t talk to strangers, say no to drugs, and…
Summer is starting soon and I need to get a summer reading plan for my kids! Usually, my kids are assigned an extensive summer reading project by the teachers in the next grade. One year it was five books AND a book review project! When my girls started middle school, the summer reading assignments ceased…
Please welcome my guest blogger, Barbara Stapleton, who teaches middle school students about personal finance. Today, she is going to be sharing her lessons on how to teach tweens about credit cards versus debit cards because this is not the kind of personal finance lesson you want your kids to learn the hard way! p.s. I have…
My son and I attended the Mega Awesome Book Event which starred Rick Riordan, but Eoin Colfer emerged as the star of the day. (Ridley Pearson was a rockstar too!) Boy is that guy funny and charming! If I could invite just one author to dinner, I would pick him. He’d have you in stitches…
The E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards recognize books that reflect the playful, well-paced language, the engaging themes, and the universal appeal to a wide range of ages embodied by E.B. White’s collection of beloved books. Best Read-Aloud Books: E.B. White Read-Aloud Award Tween Books 2019: Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes 2018: Wishtree by Katherine Applegate 2017: The…
I discovered the first Noah Zarc chapter book a few years ago and I loved it! It has the same action adventure as a Percy Jackson chapter book but with time travel! I also like that Noah just so happens to have special needs — he’s in a wheelchair — but it doesn’t impede his ability to…