Litsy

Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever | Mem Fox

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TheBookHippie Magic ♥️ 2d

TheSpineView So true 👍 💙📖 2d

JenlovesJT47 Love this!! 💛🐝🖤🤓📚 2d

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dabbe That last line: 🎯🩵🎯 Reading is accessible for everyone and allows all of us to be transported. 💛🐝🖤 2d

AnnCrystal 🤩 Perfection! Magic of books captured in seventeen syllables 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🪄📚🐝💝. 1d

lil1inblue @TheBookHippie My favorite kind of magic. 😍 24h

lil1inblue @TheSpineView 😍💫 💖 💫 24h

lil1inblue @JenlovesJT47 Thanks! 😍 24h

lil1inblue @dabbe Precisely! 😍 💛 🐝 💛 24h

lil1inblue @AnnCrystal Thank you! 😍 💛 🐝 💛 24h

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llwheeler

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness | Jonathan Haidt

Almost done this audiobook and finding it very interesting, from a parenting POV as well as thinking about my own phone and social media use. I deleted Instagram today as a result.

He advises time in nature as a good antidote, and calls out ppl observing nature through their phones, taking pics instead of just experiencing. Which made me laugh cause just this morning I took this picture of a gorgeous tree in bloom.

llwheeler (but I also observed with my eyeballs not just camera lens. And now I have pictures to look at and keep feeling happy about. So, balance in all things, I think) 3d

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ravenlee

Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood | Jessica Grose

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This book is what I wanted Angela Garbes‘ work to be: personal yet with research and numbers to back up the claim that modern motherhood is unsustainable. While a lot of the information is familiar, and there are no quick fixes offered here, Grose‘s work gives a solid foundation to the general unease and overwhelm so many of us feel. If you‘re interested in the economic value of caretakers, this one‘s a good piece.

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AmyG

Motherhood: How Should We Care for Our Children? | Anne Manne

Wishing all the Moms….Happy Mother‘s Day! That means kids, dogs and cats. Especially cats as all my kids are cat parents! 😻❤️🤣

Soubhiville To you as well Amy! 🩷🌸🌺 2w

Lesliereadsalot Back at ya! 🩷🩷 2w

AmyG Thank you @Soubhiville @Lesliereadsalot 😘 2w

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dabbe HMD! 💚💙💚 2w

AmyG @dabbe Thank you! 😘 2w

mrp27 Happy Mother‘s Day! 2w

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Posh_Salad

What to Read When: The Books and Stories to Read with Your Child--and All the Best Times to Read Them | Pam Allyn

Worst. Slump. Ever.
My reading challenge goal is so disappointed in me! 😭
Cant seem to get into hardly anything. Tried new genres, going to the library, Kindle books, audiobooks, book books. And I‘m starting to get twitchy. Grrrr. What should I read?

BookmarkTavern Go back to an old favorite! That usually works for me. 3w

Posh_Salad I‘ll give it another go @BookmarkTavern ! 3w

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Abe

Let's Read About--: Finding Books They'll Love to Read | Bernice E Cullinan

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Great book about Finding books that your child will love to read!

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AvidReader25

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness | Jonathan Haidt

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A deep dive into studies of how social media & phone use are affecting our kids. I appreciate the tangible changes suggested. Waiting until high school to give your kids a phone/ social media, banding together with other parents to create a like-minded community, & lobbying your school to keep phones completely out of schools, are all great ideas. But unstructured play, age-appropriate risks & responsibilities, & less parental hovering is key!

Read-n-Bloom I was one of the moms that didn‘t let her children have a phone or social media until they were older and it was cool then to let them have it. They are just realizing now how it‘s not so good for them. My daughters still like those things but they are not glued to it like some are. I‘m glad I took that stand for my girls. They didn‘t like it even found ways to get on at school but the rule was still there and their use was monitored. (edited) 1mo

AvidReader25 @Read-n-Bloom This is so encouraging to me! Do you mind if I ask how long you waited before your kids got phones? 1mo

Read-n-Bloom High school. Bc both of them had illnesses that would strike out of the blue and certain teachers wouldn‘t let them go to office and call home. So it‘s when I decided that it was needed. So if they got really sick and needed to come home maybe they could get through on the way to class or if they were in the bathroom. My oldest didn‘t have internet though. But my youngest had internet at school, when they allowed it and when she came home. 1mo

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Read-n-Bloom When they were younger the teachers they had, most anyway, let them call home when they were sick. So I didn‘t have that problem when they were in elementary school. 1mo

AvidReader25 @Read-n-Bloom that‘s good to know! There are so many factors that go into the decision. 1mo

Read-n-Bloom You‘re right. There is. I think the internet, social media, etc, is addicting. I even find myself having to force myself to stop on social media or playing a game, imagine what that feels like for a child that has had no boundaries ? . I think it‘s scary what it can do to a child‘s mental health and mindset. I‘m not against any of it but a child needs to be a child and I believe phones too early can keep them from that. 1mo

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Chelsea.Poole

Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers | Gabor Mate, M.D., Gordon Neufeld

so-so

The whole idea (14 hour audio!) is that parents/adults/caregivers should be the central relationship in a child‘s life, with friends and peers secondary. The authors argue that parents should guide their children in every aspect of life. I agree with this and find comfort in the fact that our kids have friends but neither have groups that matter more than our relationship with them. However, it‘s repetitive and feels over the top at times.

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