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How Reading Classic Books Can be a Powerful Form of Self-Care {for kids and adults!}

Social-Emotional Development, Stay-at-Home Mom Life · January 29, 2020

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Sneak peek: Many of these best classic books for children cannot only enrich our kids' lives but ours too. Exploring how reading can be a …

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Free Comic Book Summer! How Reading Comics Fosters Literacy

Play-Based Learning · May 6, 2016

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Typically, each year my kids get excited about comic book day that happens in May. This year, with COVID-19 restrictions on stores in place, …

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Help Set a Reading Record!

Uncategorized · October 4, 2011

I recently found out about We Give Books, an online campaign to get children and their parents reading and donating books to schools. It's a …

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Great Literacy Resource

Uncategorized · June 8, 2009

Although I don't have a little one yet (due any day), I really look forward to reading books to him once he arrives. We all know the …

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Amy Webb
As a mom of two young boys, I've seen first-hand how research-based child development information, combined with intuition, can guide you through your parenting journey. Although I have a Ph.D.in Human Development and Family Sciences, many of my real parenting discoveries have come through my experience. I believe parenting with confidence comes from knowledge; parenting with grace comes from insight. Join me on this parenting journey of learning and discovery

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