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The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

For 0-2 year olds, there’s no better story than that of The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Youngsters can interact with this highly colourful and engaging story, following the creature as he works his way through foodstuffs leaving bitten ‘holes’ in his wake. The ending (the caterpillar evolving into a beautiful butterfly) encourages children to think about the life cycle of all creatures and has to this day been translated into 50 different languages.

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

This gloriously illustrated and imaginative book has been such a hit that it is recently been turned into a film. The story follows a young boy, Max, who is sent to his room for being too wild. Alone and furious, Max’s imagination takes his across the sea to ‘where the wild things are’. Here he slowly looses interest in rebelling and trying to tame the beasts, so the end sees him returning to the reality of his bedroom.

This children’s book deserves to make the list because it reflects beautifully how creative a child’s imagination can be. The story follows a young boy, Max, who after being sent to his room for being naughty uses his imagination to ‘run away’ to where wild things live. However, Max soon grows tired of rebelling with the beasts, and returns home to a hot supper. This story is so loved it was recently made into a hit movie.

The most famous of Roald Dahl’s stories, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory combines fantasy with tantalising imagery, making it a sure hit with kids. As with most children’s stories, this book combines story telling with morality, with Willy Wonka punishing the naughty children in often dark and gruesome ways. The story is so loved by adults and children alike, it has also been made into two hit movies.

Like all of Roald Dahl’s stories, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory combines lovable and detestable characters with morality. The story is set around a group of children who, along with their parents, have won a tour of Willy Wonka’s magical chocolate factory. However, on the way the naughty kids are punished by Wonka who had created the competition to find a suitable successor to his factory, highlighting how good children get the rewards.

The books that make up the Harry Potter series are perhaps the greatest books of all time. Sales figures certainly reflect this claim, with Harry Potter the best selling book series ever.

The books get increasingly darker as they go on, but throughout all seven books there are themes of friendship, love, family, courage and the power of good versus evil, ultimately making the stories timeless and appealing to all ages.

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Reading to your child is important, more important then many parents realize. It helps to promote strong emotional and intellectual development, just as much as any other activity a child can undertake with his or her parents. It’s important to take advantage of any opportunity to encourage your child’s growth, such as speaking, reading, or playing games, and turn it into a way to make learning fun. Reading is great for this.

Children at different ages learn best from different kinds of books, and it is important to figure out which books are best suited for your child at their current age. To help with that, this article will show you which books are best for which ages of children.

Birth to 12 months: Infants in this age group don’t need words in their books, but anything with large, clear pictures will help them. As their eyes are still developing, they need very clear images. Photographs can be good for this, but really and book with bright, large pictures will capture their attentions and help introduce them to the concept of reading from an early age.

From1 to 2 years: Keep to books with big, bright pictures, although you can include some words at this age. Toddlers like to carry their books around with them, so make sure the books you get are solidly built. Finally, even this young children prefer characters they can relate to, so try and get books either about babies their age, or about animals in similar situations to ones they might encounter themselves.

At 2-3 years old: Children aged two to three need books with (comparatively) strong themes, something that will involve them in the story and keep them reading. A good idea would be to use books involving their favorite characters from tv or games, as well as books that convey some sort of lesson. For instance, something about conduct or potty training work well. Best of all, are books that help to improve their understanding, especially books that teach them more about the alphabet, or include names of shapes and animals.

Preschoolers to teens: Of course preschoolers do not grasp how to read yet, but should by this time delight in reading books and learning new stories. They should relish looking at books by themselves and be capable of reciting definite parts of the stories by looking at the pictures on the pages. The older a child gets of course, the vital thing is to make books accessible that are suitable for the reading level. Teenagers should be capable of reading novels that include their interests without having very many pictures to entertain them.

At the end of the day, the most important thing for us as parents to do, is maintain our children’s interest in books. Many of us may not take to reading, but I’m sure we can all agree that learning to read is a vital component of childhood. So we, so you, need to take care to encourage a love of books, if only for the opportunities that opens up for them in the future, that might not be available otherwise.

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Every parent wants to get their children reading as soon as they can. This means spending a lot of time on daily reading practice sessions. Often children’s early reading books are of the interactive type. First readers often have pop-up images to illustrate the key words on the pages.

Why not take this a step further by showing your children multimedia ebooks? Multimedia ebooks for children can take pop-up paper readers to the next level and more. Even older children may benefit from multimedia ebooks. Educational ebooks on Beethoven, for instance could play snippets from his music.

Ebooks on birds could play their songs and even short films of birds building their nests or in courtship. There are fantastic opportunities for ingenious authors of children’s multimedia electronic books.

The ebook could have different modes such as with or without auto-read. The book could read itself aloud and a word could change colour or become underlined as it was being read. The voice could then instruct the child to click on a word to make an event happen, say, replay a bird song or show a short film.

It is frequently hard to keep a child’s interest and an interactive ebook like this could be just the way to keep it interesting. This form of ebook is itself still in its early years, but it seems that authors of children’s books will have to begin publishing this in this manner more and more.

One potential problem is children and electronic gadgets. Children these days are certainly more used to handling electronic gadgets than any previous generation, but still the hand held ebook readers would have to be very rugged and battery operated.

Today’s ebook readers normally have screens which are only capable of showing text in black on a white, blue or gray screen, so the displays would have to be capable of full colour and the sound play back facilities may have to be improved. Neither of these improvements are big problems.

A further advantage of an ebook reader is its ability to change the size of the text. Children sometimes have problems with their vision and an ebook reader might be just the solution.

It has also been said that some forms of dyslexia can be improved if the text is displayed in, say, yellow on a brown background or pink on a blue background. All combinations are feasible with an ebook reader with a colour screen, such as a notebook.

Home schooling is more and more popular and school books are being sold to parents at quite a discount to paper books. Paper school books are already costly, but they are bound to increase in cost as the world’s populace increases and the number of trees for use in paper mills decreases.

Ebook readers are fantastic for taking on holiday, if you enjoy reading, because they will hold 3,500 ebooks. This will save you lugging three or four paperbacks on holiday with you next time. It will not be long before each household has a couple of of ebook readers.

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Quite a few people, particularly families, clear out their wardrobes of garments that are no longer worn at least once a year. They take these surplus clothes to shops supporting charities and good causes like Dr. Bernardo’s, The Salvation Army and Oxfam, who them check them for damage, launder them and resell them. The profits created are passed on to the relevant good cause.

The point is, that these shops will not accept ‘rubbish’ because they would not be able to resell it. They would actually lose money after laundering, displaying and dumping fees. Therefore you will not find garments with rips, tears snags or stains on them. In fact, most clothes, including shoes are of very high quality.

Probably more than at any other time in the last fifty years, people are aware of the need to recycle things and, as money is short, a lot of people assuage their need to contribute to charity with superfluous clothing instead. In the days when families were larger, clothes were recycled by handing them down, but in these days of 1.4 children, there is no one to pass them on to, apart from the charity shops.

Children grow up quickly, so it is not long before an item of clothing is of no more use to a family and it is such garments that are usually passed on. T-shirts and jumpers might be only six months old and some have never been worn, like that bright pink jumper that old great-uncle Fred bought for Johnny last Christmas and he refused to wear. But a young girl would love it. Sometimes, you can buy whole outfits for less than the price of one item in it.

Suits, jackets and overcoats are particularly good buys and come in all types of colours and styles. They are very expensive items to purchase new, but can be a fifth of the price in a charity shop. The knack with charity shops though is to call in habitually and often.

Because of the nature of the business, charity shops do not carry racks of like items in all the different sizes, rather, they have rails of one-offs. It is first come, first served, so it is best to check back repeatedly.

Do not be fooled into thinking that you have to be destitute to shop at a charity shop. The charity shops have always refuted that image and many well-known people have said that they often shop there.

Sometimes, people are looking for a particular style, but it was last year’s and the large department stores no longer carry those items because they have moved on. Charity shops will have them. This can be a good way of picking up period accessories and costume jewellery.

Some of the bigger charity shops also carry furniture and those shops can be very handy for finding a matching piece of something too. They are good for finding mirrors and occasional tables. Many charity shops carry a wide variety of last year’s books too. You can get a handful of recent books for the cost of one from a book shop.

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The opportunity to write a letter to Santa Claus during Christmas time is a wonderful holiday tradition. Kids love to sit down with their family and tell Santa Claus all about what they are hoping to receive from the North Pole that year. Writing these Christmas wish-lists can be a fun family activity and a good way to see what your kids are looking forward to most about Christmas. Something that can also be fun to do around the holidays is to try to get a reply back from the “North Pole”, in the form of a letter from Santa. No doubt, it will surprise your children to hear back from Santa Clause himself and know that their letters to Santa are in fact being read at the North Pole and that each and every child is considered so important to Father Christmas. This could be a really great Christmas tradition to start in your family.

To start the process of receiving a letter from Santa is to send one to Him! Gather your crayons, markers, stickers, and any other fun crafty supplies you have lying around and start writing! Encourage your kids to be honest with Santa Claus about what they have done this year to deserve the gifts they are hoping to receive back from the North Pole. Also make sure your kids have thanked Father Christmas for all the things he has sent them for past Christmases. If you have younger kids, you might need to be especially involved in helping them form their words so that Santa’s helpers can easily read their letters and then respond properly with a letter from Santa.

One of the most important things you need to do in order to get your letter from Santa back in the mail is make sure you’ve sent it to the right place! Mail your letter to the following address:

Santa Claus AKA Father Christmas

North Pole, Provo UT, 84601

There are groups of Santa’s helpers waiting at the North Pole to read your children’s letters and then respond with a very personal and heartfelt letter from Santa. The letter is sure to include an authentic North Pole postmark and be a special surprise for your child.

Once you have written a letter to Santa with your kids and then received a letter from Santa back in the mail, you will want to continue the tradition every year. It will be an experience your children look forward to with much anticipation, and you can remind your kids before Christmas that they have to be obedient in order to expect a letter from Santa or other gifts from the North Pole this year. Remind them that while Santa Claus loves all the children and wants to give them all wonderful things around Christmas, they need to take the time to write to Santa Claus at the North Pole and tell Him what they are hoping for. So this year, start the tradition of sending a receiving a letter from Santa and your Christmas holidays will be forever changed for the better! Letters to and From Santa Claus!

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With technology’s continuous innovations for better and upgraded gadgets, reading traditional books have become outdated as a thing to do for many people. It has become just another tedious task for a student as a study material and never the hobby that is used to be. If you miss the fascination you get from the stories of books that you used to get when you had the time, then follow these simple tips to sneak in some more reading time. How is that possible? Here’s how:

1. Unplugging from the tube.

Instead of spending the next half hour watching the news or any random show while waiting for time to pass, unplug your television and instead spend this time to read. Get that book you’ve always wanted to read but never had the time to.

2. Keep a book in your bag.

This can be very useful. You can finish the book you are reading in chapters when you ride the train, while waiting in the doctor’s office for your appointment or during your office break.

3. Reading for someone else.

Read for your child, partner, the elderly or your book club. You might think it isn’t but it is also a form of reading, too. You may not realize it but when you read to others, you are reading to yourself, as well.

4. Take a day off from house work.

When you always run out for errands on a weekend or a particular day of the week, then take a day off if you can. Take this time to pamper yourself and relax. Grab a cup of tea, hot choco with marshmallows on top or a latte from your favorite coffee shop.

5. Adjust your sleep routine.

It’s not such a struggle to wake up 15 minutes earlier or sleep 15 minutes after to get some time to read. You do it with the television, might as well reserve some time for reading as well, right?

6. Making potty time reading time too!

Most people do make this time to get some more time for reading. If you’ve never tried it, then it may be time that you do!

Use these tips to slip in a little more time to read.

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Do you think that spending time in traditional classrooms is a waste of time? For many people, that is probably true. For example, a test is due and the students are asked to memorize a list of dates and names. However, after taking the exam, they will definitely forget 90% of those dates and names. That’s what the majority of students do when they have tests. If you are one of these people, you will find traditional history lessons boring, so home schooling, which focuses more on the history of the world, will surely interest you more.

Just simple memorization is not enough to realize the importance of historical, famous people and fateful events. Through home schooling in history, you can study the different cultures of the past in a different, but interesting way – that is your own way! Through the study of history, you will also realize what is happening in the world.

If you think that home schooling is the best option for your child’s learning, you must also be prepared to take on some responsibilities. Since there will be no teacher physically present, you will have to supervise your child’s educational progress yourself.

Let’s say your child supports a particular sport. You could combine history and home schooling by just putting a map on the wall of your child’s schoolroom and mark the location of his favourite sports team. Make sure that you track all the team’s games, scores, activities and schedules. Then, you could go back to history lessons by reading biographies of the various athletes, who had been famous in the particular sport that your child likes. Aside from that, you can also examine the history of that particular sport and discover where it started, its inventor, and the other things happening in that particular time in history.

For example, let’s say your child loves baseball, you could teach your child about the history baseball, government hearings on the use of drugs and other favourite pastimes during that period in time. But remember that you can apply this concept to any interest such as dancing, flight, cars or any invention. You can also have conversations with your child about current affairs or read interesting historical documents and other books. Apart from that, you can also watch documentaries together with the rest of the family. There are various resources that you can use in home schooling, such as TV, maps, newspapers, books, a globe, an atlas, and encyclopedias. Due of the enthralling adventures that you and your child will read about and see on film, your child will find it easier to remember the names and dates of the history lessons. After all, learning is better when it is done in a fun way.

These methods are recommended if the child is still young, but once your child is older, you must choose an appropriate home schooling program that is suitable for his/her age group. The programs are available at the elementary, high school, and even college levels. You simply have to search the Internet for these different programs. A good thing about these programs is that you can tailor them to fit the needs of your child. However, you must see to it that all the lessons are studied by your child.

Once you and your child have decided to go for home schooling, you must be prepared to make some changes in your life. The educational environment will now be in your home not at a school and through the various resources that you think best, such as a computer and the Internet.

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Do you have happy memories of your school years? Do you have happy memories of teachers and school friends? If you do then you were lucky, because some children hate each minute of being in school and not because they are no good at it either. Frequently it is the clever kids who are taunted for being swots and teachers’ pets. They are safe in the class, but the travelling to and from school and the school breaks can become nightmares.

However, it is not only bullying from other children that causes fear in school children. There are other reasons for fear in school as well. Occasionally, children think that a certain teacher does not like them and occasionally children are merely frightened of failing or doing badly. Occasionally teachers are afraid of doing badly as well. It can all lead to an atmosphere of fear at school. It makes you ask yourself how anyone could have enjoyed their school days, does it not?

This atmosphere of fear can get greater in state schools because the teachers are subject to success charts and the kids are more open to bullying. Furthermore, all of the school shootings in the world have taken place in state run schools.

However, the most subtle form of fear in school comes from teachers who are afraid of missing the targets set by the state, because that will cost them their posts. This fear is passed on to their students. The regime of fear is exacerbated by over-sized classes. Why?

Because teachers can hold the attention of only so many pupils – as we all can in regular discourse. Therefore, if the class is too big, the teacher will have to switch roles from being a teacher to a controller. When this happens, education suffers for the sake of keeping order.

For all of these reasons and more, many crowd are turning to home schooling. Some of the reasons why parents are deciding to educate their children themselves are: distrust of the state education system; fear of bullying or worse of their children; a desire to educate their children in a more conventional or religious fashion.

There are education packages that parent-teachers can buy to give them a course of action on what to teach. There is also a lot of help available on the Internet. The problem facing any parents who wish to educate their own children is providing a rounded education.

People have a natural tendency to specialize in one topic or group of subjects like, say, astronomy or the sciences, which is why schools provide numerous teachers, so that every one can teach his or her favourite subject. However, if you are the only teacher you will have to teach all the topics yourself.

This is why it is best to have a program or set of guidelines to follow. It is difficult to teach maths if you have no aptitude for it, so look at your strengths but also your weaknesses before you take the momentous decision to withdraw your children from school and teach them themselves

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It doesn’t matter if you are teaching in a traditional school or in a home schooling environment, there will be a time when you will come across burnout. This is something that you have to avoid so that your educational progress is not adversely affected.

Here are a couple of helpful tips that you can make use of to prevent possible home schooling burnout:

Be aware of your abilities. From the very start, you should already know your limitations and those of your child. You must be able to taking things slowly sometimes, especially if your child is still very young since you have to consider your child’s capacity to learn. Most students are average learners (obviously), so you will have to take the lessons according to your child’s learning pace. Never expect your small child to read complicated selections nor your teenager to get top marks in SAT exams.

Don’t adopt rigid schedules, as this could put undue pressure on your child. You should just set an interesting routine for your child to follow. Children spend most of their time doing routine activities like getting up, eating hearty breakfasts, reading books, practising writing, doing light jobs about the place, etc. You must insist that they complete their routine activities before they can go outside or play with the computer. Even these routine activities change from day to day, but you must ensure that your child completes these routine activities. You can add in occasional incentives or fun activities if they finish their routine tasks earlier.

You should try to enjoy home schooling with your child. This is a good method of developing a strong relationship with your child and if you and your child can relate to each other, you will find it very much easier to handle curriculum struggles and motivation issues later on. Aside from motivating and guiding your child, you can also pursue some of your own interests like gardening or cooking. If your child sees you enjoying your own interests, then he or she will also be motivated to do likewise.

Since your child is in a home schooling program, you should not try to copy a traditional schools environment. Try to use unusual means when teaching your child. Home schooling is also about flexibility and creativity, and if you can achieve an easy-going but firm atmosphere, you can more than likely prevent burnout.

Always try to remember that with home schooling, you don’t have to structure your teaching methods in the traditional way. You can just do things in a fun way especially with very young children so that they learn naturally. Just ensure you keep the day in the right perspective to avoid burnout. Although your children might forget some of the day’s lessons, that’s all right too because somehow they grow in intelligence as well as in physique.

For sure, your children will always think back on your moments together and remember fondly how well you treated them. The old song goes: “… there’s no place like home” and for little students, home is the best place to learn the first lessons of life. If your teenagers are already in high school or in college, they can still do home schooling if they so desire. That would also a good decision because you’d get to keep an eye on your children’s performance.

Parents always try to look after their children’s best interests, so, if after careful consideration, you still think that home schooling is the best option for your family, then run with it. Just follow the advice mentioned above to prevent burnout. Make time for enjoyable activities from time to time in order to prevent monotony.

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36 months ago, I started penning a fiction for tweens, Belle in the Slouch Hat. This is a story about a young girl who seeks revenge after her brother was killed while in the Civil War. I purposely started the story for my grandchildren; and I needed something to fill an emptiness in me as a consequence of the loss of my beloved mother, and another special woman in my life. They died within two months of one another.

In the event that someone we love dies, we will need to grieve; there is no way to avoid it. Everyone must move through the sadness and heartache in their own individual way. My way was writing.

Immediately after the loss of those I adored, it felt as though something was obstructing my hurting and protecting me through the harshness and unhappiness because of death. To this day, In my opinion it had been the Holy Spirit helping me through probably the most trying times during my life. You many choose to call it something different, but I believe it was the Holy Spirit. Shortly after that, the reality of the deaths set in and I had no choice but to undergo the next phase of losing someone you cherish, the grieving process.

At the age of sixty-one, I sat at my computer; I began to compose, and I began to get better. I started out writing a novel devoid of the full knowledge of what I was engaging in. I didn’t stop thinking about how many hours that I would so willingly give to it, nor did I stop to think there was a correct way of doing it, all I know was I had to write. Sometimes it was down-right physically, mentally, and emotionally painful; other times, I felt drained of every once of energy in my body. Occasionally, my sense of meaning and my most treasured beliefs about life were challenged.

There was no time-line for when I needed to finish; and no one could stipulate to me when it would be finished. It required a long time; not a day, not a month, not just one year, but two full years.

Apart from the first three pages of my book, I didn’t have an order, or a plot ot follow, I just needed to write. I even built a imaginary barrier around me and didn’t want anyone to know what exactly I was writing, except my better half.

The more often I wrote, the greater I desired to write. Writing gave me an avenue to cry, to laugh, and also have an adventure. Unknowingly, I had formed my personal support group with the individuals inside my story. For me, it had become a secure place to share my thinking and work through my suffering. I also found a way for me to commemorate those I loved.

When ever someone we love dies, we will need to grieve; there is no way to avoid it. Everyone must experience the sadness and pain in their own personal way. My strategy was penning.

Immediately after losing those I treasured, it felt as if something was stopping my suffering and protecting me through the harshness and depression most typically associated with death. To this day, there’s no doubt that it had been the Holy Spirit helping me through essentially the most hardship in my life. You many decide upon to call it different things, but I believe it was the Holy Spirit. Immediately after that, the reality of the deaths set in and I had no choice but to go through the next phase of losing someone you adore, the grieving process.

At age sixty-one, I sat at my computer; I began to craft, and I started to recover. I started off writing a novel minus the full comprehension of what I was getting into. I didn’t stop to bear in mind how many hours which I would so willingly give to it, nor did I stop to think there was a correct way of doing it, all I know was I had to write. Sometimes it was down-right physically, mentally, and emotionally painful; other times, I felt drained of every once of energy in my body. Occasionally, my sense of meaning and my most treasured beliefs about life were challenged.

There was clearly very little time-line for when I needed to finish; and no one could stipulate to me when it could be finished. It required a long time; not just a day, not a month, not just one year, but two full years.

With the exception of the initial three pages of my book, I did not have an order, or a plot ot follow, I just wanted to write. I even built a imaginary barrier around me and didn’t want anyone to know exactly what I was writing, except my better half.

The more I wrote, the more I want to to create. Writing gave me an avenue to cry, to laugh, and have an adventure. Unknowingly, I had my very own support group with the characters within my story. For me, it was a safe place to share my inner thoughts and work through my suffering. I also found the best way for me to commemorate those I loved.

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