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Monday, July 29, 2013

Roald Dahl

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Today’s author to read aloud is Roald Dahl. Did anyone not love his writing when they were a kid?   He just seems to understand a chi...
Friday, July 26, 2013

The First Casualty

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The First Casualty , Ben Elton I have read a few Ben Elton books over the years and enjoyed all of them. He has an insight into humani...
Monday, July 22, 2013

Patricia St John

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Today’s author to read aloud is Patricia St John. St John (1919-1993) was a Christian woman who worked much of her life as a missionary nu...
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Friday, July 19, 2013

Marta's Legacy

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I have dipped my toe into a bit more Francine Rivers - Her Mother's Hope and Her Daughter's Dream .  This two-novel series about ...
Monday, July 15, 2013

Enid Blyton

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Enid Blyton, that prodigious children’s writer who many of us are familiar with, is the author for today’s ‘books to read aloud’ series. ...
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Friday, July 12, 2013

I Came to Say Goodbye

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I Came to Say Goodbye, Caroline Overington A friend gave me this, having read my last Overington review . I wonder if you read boo...
Monday, July 8, 2013

Wonder

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Wonder, R. J. Palacio This is a brilliant book. I cannot recommend this one highly enough for parents to read with their children, ...
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Sunday, July 7, 2013

Books to read aloud

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On Mondays for the next few months, I will be reviewing a selection of good books to read aloud to your kids. Aimed mainly at the 7-12 ag...
Friday, July 5, 2013

Keep the Faith

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Keep the Faith , Martin Ayers What do you do when as a Christian you have doubts about your faith? Do you hide them away, hoping no-...
Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Some posts to look at

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There have been a couple of good posts & articles related to various aspects of parenting I have seen lately, you might like to have a l...
Friday, June 28, 2013

Prayer resources

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So far in this prayer series, there have been three books about prayer: A Call to Spiritual Reformation A Praying Life Praying the Sc...
Monday, June 24, 2013

Praying as a family - specific prayer

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The last post was about regular general family prayers. However there are many times where we turn to prayer as a family for a specific re...
Friday, June 21, 2013

Praying as a family - general prayers

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The ideas of praying together as a family are no different than praying with each of your children individually . The only requirement ...
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Monday, June 17, 2013

Prayer with more competent readers

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Continuing from babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers , we come to older children who are reading. Once our children were able to read ...
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Friday, June 14, 2013

Prayer with babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers

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Keeping in mind the principles from the last post – that we want to pray with our children and model that it’s normal – it makes sense t...
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