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December 9, 2017

8 Tried-and-Tested Ways To Raise Book-Lovers.

My oldest kids (ages 5, 7 and 9) have evolved into voracious readers. For example, Julie and I just took them on a 3 day holiday. Other than beach-going, their recreational preference was reading. Eli and Fynn clocked in hours everyday in pure reading pleasure. Ivy, who can’t yet read, nonetheless flipped through picture book…

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Tag: cultivating-kids, kids-and-books, kids-and-screens
November 3, 2015

Raising well-behaved kids is as easy as one, two, three

People generally resist a formula for something as complex as parenting. I hate oversimplifications too. But this formula really works. The other day I saw the connection between my garden and my kids. Cultivating our lawn and constantly battling against its slow progression toward overgrown unwieldiness, is a lot like cultivating the behavior of our…

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