Eclectic Parent

D is a reluctant reader. A very reluctant reader. He read late, reads slowly and never, ever wants to do it. His comprehension is years beyond his ability to read so he listens to audiobooks. When he takes in the written word. He’d much rather see the movie version.
I don’t like deadlines for anything: every […]

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There are millions of free resources available but my kids have the attention span of gnats. I like to have a bunch of stuff around the house for instant answers. If they ask a question and the reply is, “Hey next time we go to the library we can look it up”, then they will […]

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Tonight is the 15th day of the 8th lunar month - mid Autumn Festival in China. We’ve been reading some books about the Moon Festival (Moon Festival, Red Eggs & Dragon Boats, Moonbeams, Dumplings & Dragon Boats, Round is a Mooncake, I Took the Moon For A Walk). Even if you are unfamiliar with the […]

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Today we started with some books I picked up a few days ago. We’ve been selling books back to the used bookstore, so I bought The Grapes of Math and the Math Curse with some of the credit. After figuring our how many quarts in a gallon, pints in a quart, etc, it asked how […]

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Having been on the road so long we were completely out of everything upon returning. Grandma had gotten us some groceries but we still had to go out a few days later. We were totally out of sync though. Had bread, ran out of cheese. Had veggies but no meat. We finally did a big […]

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We’re here. We made it. Think big house, more cousins than a small village, some of them having friends over, aunts, uncles, swimming pool, capture the flag, and scavenger hunts. Swim, swim, swim from breakfast ’til bed with breaks in between to play. We’ve been so busy we haven’t posted.
The first few days were spent […]

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I got an enormous delivery of Barefoot Books the other day. The kids have been having a good time with the increase in library. B was quite fond of Who Are You, Baby Kangaroo?   From piglets (baby pigs) to cygnets (baby swans), a puppy runs around asking if anyone knows the name of the baby […]

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Any of you that know me are probably aware of my lifelong obsession with books. I’ve finally decided to turn that obsession into a home-based business with a fantastic children’s publisher called Barefoot Books. I received my first Barefoot Book at D’s baby shower almost 8 years ago and have been adding them to our […]

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I had created category Books, Books, Books months upon months ago but never use it. I had thought I could write about what we read every day to keep track, but somehow we usually write about other things. We had been having a serious lull in reading. They happen around here. Ebb and flow […]

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The new puppy is teething. She had been chewing on everything she can get her mouth around. We could see why she was having such a chewing fit, she had double incisors on the top and bottom. One of the things that the puppy chewed was a little stuffed dog of […]

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