Category Archives: Parenting

Good books for new pre-schoolers?

Any parents out there? Our (not quite) four-year-old is just getting ready to head off into pre-school. Can you recommend any good children’s books that would be useful to read with her? Particularly looking for stories that might ease anxiety about what to expect, etc.
Please reply in the comments or email me.
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Good parenting book: Screamfree Parenting (by Hal Edward Runkel)

Although I do occasionally enjoy spirituality (like Yearnings) or personal productivity books (a la GTD), I’m not a big fan of parenting books. The ones I’ve flipped through or read never seem to dovetail with either the our parenting philosophy or with the particular issues we tend to face with our children.
That’s why I [...]

Creeeeeeepy.

This is kind-of scary, but useful: Family Watchdog. It’s a web site where you can enter your address and discover registered sex offenders living near you / your kids. It’s all viewable in a Google-maps like interface; if you click on a square representing an offender, you get their mug shot and info on the [...]

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