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Welcome, Parents! Here at ParentKorner we provide helpful articles; parenting news; inspiration & encouragement; book reviews; and family activities like crafts, puzzles, and fun recipes kids can help make. Check back often for updates!

Practical Parenting

1. 100 Ways to Help My Child Succeed
2. Top Teachers' Tips for Parents
3. Back-to-School Time: Tips to Help Children Adjust
4. Can I Really Make a Difference?
5. Just for Parents Speaker/Writer Brenda Nixon offers tips on everything from separation anxiety, a child's grief, and how to grow a reader. Read a review of her book!
6. Parenting Preemies
7. Focus on the Family provides straightforward help, in the form of columns, articles, and activities for the whole family.
8. "A Severe Case of Affluenza"--Are your kids fighting the "gimmes"? (a Christian perspective)
9. Universal Truths of Parenting - by humorist Linda Sharp
10. Help! It's Another Tantrum!--This author believes there are three types of tantrums. Do you agree?
11. Discipline without Disgrace - Turn your kids onto problem-solving!
12. "Stop That Whining!"--ways to cope without caving.
13. Communication Tips for Parents--ten tips worth considering.
14. Prevention of Sleep Problems--practical tips for helping kids of every age.

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Recommended Books

 

Alphabetical Index- 300+reviews
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Sunrise, Sunset
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
Grandpa Loves
Captain Hook (audiobook)
Digital Photography: Expert Techniques
A Brother's Journey (audiobook)
iPhoto 5: The Missing Manual
Walk Away the Pounds audiobook (3 CDs)
Three Weeks With My Brother, by Nicholas & Micah Sparks
Mom's Scrapbook of Memories
Children's
IllustratedCookbookFriends'Scrapbook of Memories
Let's Start Fabric Art
Let's Start Stamp Art
Hugs: A Special Bedtime Prayer
Animals: A First Art Book
Alice in Wonderland POPUP
Raggedy Ann & the Camel with the Wrinkled Knees POPUP
Changing Faces
Foil Fun (book/craft supplies)
Kids Guide to Money and Cent$
Helen Keller: A Determined Life

Never Say Goodbye, by Lea Gillespie G

Want more? Explore our complete alphabetical list of book reviews--over 300 & growing!

 

   

 

Anytime Fun!

• Download a dinosaur!
• Kididdles! (songs/lyrics)
• Piano Education Page
• A Pocketful of Rhymes!
• Build a dollhouse from recyclables
• Family Recipes
• Apple Corps - decorate this applehead, much like Mr. Potato head game
• Thomas the Tank Engine online - interactive fun!
• Find family fun in Vancouver, B.C. (Canada)
• Thinking Skills - a pageful of activities for Parents & Babies/Toddlers - from Scholastic 
• Want to brighten up a winter room? Help your child make coffee filter flowers. 
• Learn about mountain ranges by building one in a shoebox. A very cool science project for families! 
• Winter Activities - Give the gift of time with your kids 
• Have some computer fun - together! Check out FamilyPCFun.com. 
• If you're tossing out those black film canisters, think again. Here's an idea for turning them into finger puppets. 
• You don't have to be a genius to make a child's apron. You'll love the results! (Hint: uses 1 hotpad & 1 dish towel) 
• A campout doesn't have to wait 'til summer. Try a rainy-day campout right there at home. 
• Fun does not have to cost a bundle of money! Here's an article with five ideas for cheap and easy fun. 

 

 

Parenting Quotes

"Parenthood: The art of bringing up children without putting them down." --Author Unknown

 

--Proverbs 17:6, New International Version

"Children are a poor man's riches." --English proverb

 

"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope." --Bill Cosby

 

 

 

 

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