Tag Archives: dad

Strict dad is making life difficult

By admin | Published: August 24, 2012

Thursday Aug 23 2012 I’m 19 years old and a mum to a two-year-old daughter. My boyfriend, who is the father of my baby, and I are saving hard to try to afford a deposit for a place of our own, but it’s very hard. Meanwhile, I’m living with my parents and my dad is [...]

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Bizzy Bear Builds a House – Interactive Storybook App, Child Leads the Story

By admin | Published: July 26, 2012

Have a little builder at home, always stacking blocks, helping you or dad with jobs around the house, or maybe he or she just loves to get dirty? then your kids will love this interactive storybook app, Bizzy Bear Builds a House. Bizzy Bear Builds a House allows children to move the story along, by [...]

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Win A Magic New Childrens’ Book!

By admin | Published: July 4, 2012

If you think that’s magic, then simply leave a comment below telling us what trick you’d most like to perform (try to be kind if it is to make certain people disappear!) and considered yourselves entered into a prize draw for a copy of Hey, Presto! Here at Tidy Books we do try to aid [...]

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New Singing Cowboy Uses Music to Educate Kids

By admin | Published: June 2, 2012

Saddle up, kids of all ages,  for a ride with ”the New Singing Cowboy.”  Marshall Mitchell is his name and helping kids learn through music is his game.  Marshall says he started small, writing songs in his own home that reinforced life lessons. “Well actually, I had kids… I decided they needed a little more instruction [...]

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Only a modicum of shame in wanting my sleep

By admin | Published: May 20, 2012

my number one priority over summer vacation is to sleep in.  I am thrilled to have my kids home and leisurely eating with me around the lunch table while listening to funny stories, but lunch is so much more enjoyable when it’s late in the day because Mommy slept in and we enjoyed a late [...]

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Thank You, Mr. SHEH-ska! « ShelfTalker

By admin | Published: May 16, 2012

Back when I was a school librarian in Manhattan in the early 90s, this new children’s book author came onto the scene in a big way. he was irreverent, very very funny, liked to fracture fairy tales and nursery stories, and had teamed up with a gifted, wholly unique artist to produce some fairly extraordinary [...]

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Bipolar Christianity 

By admin | Published: May 3, 2012

I believe that there is a moment, at least once, where a person who carries the banner of Christ actually intends to carry that banner forever.sometimes there is more than a moment.sometimes there is a day, a week, a month, a year, a lifetime.I know for me I pick that banner up when it’s essential.When [...]

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Rebecca Front: My family values

By admin | Published: April 29, 2012

Growing up, our household felt unusual because none of my friends’ parents had creative jobs like mine did: my dad was an artist, illustrator and calligrapher, and my mum was a teacher but wrote children’s stories, too. So our house was full of books and records, and was always a bit chaotic. But it was a [...]

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Mom War Stories – Celebrity Baby Clothes & the All Pink Wardrobe

By admin | Published: April 27, 2012

I admit it.I love looking at celebrity babies.I’ve never been much of a celebrity watcher, but the babies of celebrities are different.I’ll always stop in the grocery aisles to take a peek at Suri or Shiloh. I’m not the only one fascinated by the celebrity progeny.the tabloids are full of them because so many of [...]

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15 Children's & YA books for Kindle – Absolutely free, only on 4/19/12!

By admin | Published: April 20, 2012

Dan Elish, NYC dad and author of such children’s favorites as The School for the Insanely Gifted and The Attack of the Frozen Woodchucks, is giving middle grade readers an insane gift this Thursday, April 19 and Friday, April 20, 2012. Along with other juvenile and young adult writers, Dan is giving away an absolutely [...]

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