Hiring A Nanny

If you've chosen to hire a nanny there are important things to consider when interviewing her.

How To Find A Nanny

If you're thinking about hiring a nanny learn about the differences between and live-in nanny and a live-out nanny.

How To Get Your Kids To Do Housework

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Traditionally, kids don't do housework, they cause it. Getting kids to realise the importance of cleaning and tidying is a tall order, but you can plant the seed in their minds with these four ways to make housework fun.

Diaper Changing Tips

Get tips on how to change your baby's diaper and learn how creating a proper diaper routine can speed up your babies development.

Bath Tips For Baby

Get tips on how to make bath time with your baby simple and fun.

Father's Guide To Soothing A Crying Baby

Are you a new dad? Get great tips on how to soothe your crying baby and lull them into a gentle sleep.

How to Get Your Child to Love Reading

Are children reading enough? Not according to most parents and teachers, who know that reading aloud with children fosters a lifelong love of books, ensures better standardized test scores, promotes greater success in school, and helps instill the values we most want to pass on.

Esmé Raji Codell--an inspiring children's literature specialist and an energetic teacher--has the solution. She's turned her years of experience with children, parents, librarians, and fellow educators into a great big indispensable volume designed to help parents get their kids excited about reading.

Here are hundreds of easy and inventive ideas, innovative projects, creative activities, and inspiring suggestions that have been shared, tried, and proven with children from birth through eighth grade.

This five-hundred-page volume is brimming with themes for superlative storytimes and book-based birthday parties, ideas for mad-scientist experiments and half-pint cooking adventures, stories for reluctant readers and book groups for boys, step-by-step instructions for book parades, book-related crafts, storytelling festivals, literature-based radio broadcasts, readers' theater, and more. There are book lists galore, with subject-driven reading recommendations for science, math, cooking, nature, adventure, music, weather, gardening, sports, mythology, poetry, history, biography, fiction, and fairy tales. Codell's creative thinking and infectious enthusiasm will empower even the busiest parents and children to include literature in their lives.

Available at Amazon.com.