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The no-stress, ferociously fun way to raise a kid who loves to read - complete with reading recommendations and activities to inspire!Teaching your child to read is monstrously important, and there's no better way to do it than with everyday opportunities for laughter and play. Bringing Up Bookmonsters is full of fun ways to build literacy at home - no flashcards or timers required! Feed your budding bookmonster's brain as you: * Turn storytime into playtime to build comprehension. * Get giggling with games and jokes that reinforce spelling. * Converse at family meals with varied vocabulary. * Satisfy your bookmonster's cravings with books they are sure to devour!These tips and many more make it easy to help your child develop an insatiable appetite for reading - and have a tremendously good time doing it!

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Raising a baby is joyful, amazing . . . and ridiculously difficult. But with some insight into what’s actually going on inside your little one’s head, your job as a parent can become a little bit easier—and a lot more fun.In Think Like a Baby, coauthors Amber and Andy Ankowski—The Doctor and the Dad—show parents how to re-create classic child development experiments using common household items. These simple step-by-step experiments apply from the third trimester through age seven and beyond and help parents understand their children’s physical, cognitive, language, and social development. Amazed parents won’t just read about how their kids are behaving, changing, and thinking at various stages, they’ll actually see it for themselves while interacting and having fun with them at the same time. Each experiment is followed by a discussion of its practical implications for parents, such as why to always bring more than one toy to a restaurant, which baby gadgets to buy (and which ones to avoid), how to get kids to be perfectly happy eating just half of their dessert, and much more.

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