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Congratulations to…
…David, the winner of a new copy of The Honest Toddler: A Child’s Guide to Parenting. You can read more about the book here. I highly recommend it, whether you’re a parent or not. To choose a winner, I assigned a number to every entry (both a comment on this blog and a share of … Continue reading
Honest Toddler: Free Book Giveaway (last day)
Today you can still leave a comment here for a chance to win a copy of the new Honest Toddler book. To enter, simply comment on this blog post with the best (brief) parenting tip you can come up with. Or just say hi. For a second entry, share the link to this post on FB, … Continue reading
Week of Honest Toddler (win a free copy of HT)
There is still time to enter our drawing for a free copy of Honest Toddler: A Child’s Guide to Parenting. Just today HT posted some great reviews of children’s books. In the meantime, I’ve reviewed HT’s new book here. And the link for the HT book giveaway is here. Happy entering!
The Honest Toddler: A Book Review
Being a parent is very simple. There is no reason for you to constantly go to other adults who do not know your toddler for advice or conspiring. What happens at home stays at home. …When it comes to being a good parent, the most important resources are the words that come out of your child’s amazing … Continue reading
Honest Toddler: Free Book Giveaway
Honest Toddler, under the supervision of mom Bunmi Laditan, has now added a full-length book to a popular and cathartic Twitter feed, Facebook page, and blog/Website. HT’s mom blogs here. Thanks to Scribner (imprint of Simon & Schuster), Words on the Word has a copy of Honest Toddler: A Child’s Guide to Parenting to give away. To … Continue reading
Who is the author of Honest Toddler? Identity revealed…
Her name is Bunmi Laditan. As recently as a week ago, the author of the forthcoming Honest Toddler: A Child’s Guide to Parenting was “anonymous.” But now the book cover (above, from Amazon) shows that HT is “written under the supervision of Bunmi Laditan.” Awesome. I’ve been curious about this since reading HT, as have hundreds … Continue reading
A Day in my Facebook News Feed: Google Glass vs. Knitting in the Wild
Within minutes of each other I had Facebook connections posting on Google Glass and linking to Luci Shaw’s poem “Knitting in the Wild.” First I watched the trailer for a new Google-pioneered technology. It’s sort of like having a smartphone on your face, which is perhaps best experienced through this clip rather than described: The … Continue reading
The Honest Toddler, available for pre-order
Yes, that image is the book cover of the upcoming Honest Toddler book, which you can now pre-order on Amazon. So excited to read it. By the way, if you click on the image or link above, Amazon gives Words on the Word a small commission, so feel free to use that link if you’re going to … Continue reading
Apocalyptic Dialogue with my 5-Year-Old Son
It went like this: Me: These Duplos have eyes all over them. It’s like a creature from Revelation. He: What’s Revelation? Me: It’s a book in the Bible. There are all sorts of creatures in it. Dragons, too. It will be a great book for you to read sometime, maybe when you are older. He: … Continue reading
Traveling Mercies
The first thing I noticed when we got to my parents’ new home in South Carolina was the smell of the pines. The boys spent time outside there almost every day these last two weeks–the “cold” days there were high 40s, low 50s. It was truly good to celebrate Christmas and New Year’s with beloved … Continue reading
