Review = The Body Boundaries Parenting Guide: Eight Essential Body Safety Conversations to Have with Your Kids by Julie Bemerer PsyD

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Parenting has challenges and often especially first time parents struggle with certain topics. As a parent, you want to educate your kids on certain topics and not leave it up to the kindergarten teacher or the daycare mom. Teaching your kids of about boundaries is one such topic. Not just as it relates to body boundaries, but in general. Each chapter deals with a specific topic, such as saying No or identifying people you can trust and seek help from. Saying No may seem like a general option, but may not always work. What options are available then is one such important lesson this book helps parents explain to their kids. I found the chapters and the language used to be easy to follow. The author uses a number of tools, drawings, sample conversations and a general approach to use. I found this book to also comprehensively cover the topic of body boundaries and to realistically reflect how kids may approach the topic and what thought process they may have.  

 

his book is a guide for parents to teach kids, especially ages 3 to 6 about body boundaries. Touching on difficult topics, the book does a phenomenal job of helping parents cover these topics with young kids. Many chapters also have hints on what to do to expand the topic as the child gets older or asks more questions. 

 

A really good, easy to follow book for parents to help with covering this sensitive topic. I like that the author uses tools such as drawings in addition to explanations to help kids understand and parents to huide in these topics. 

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Review = A Walk Down Memory Lane: Short Stories for Seniors to Spark Joy and Stay Sharp by Sarah Bracey White

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This is an interesting book. I contains short stories that can read in a few minutes. But the more important part is two-fold. There are guiding questions that both make the reader focus on the essentials of the story, maybe go back and focus while reading. As well as at least one question that is aimed at jogging the memory of the reader to events from their past life. 

 One story deals with a kid getting a pet and overcoming their fear of dogs. Another story deals with the first job, such as a paper route and asks what the reader's first job was. And then a story deals with pen pals, going back to a time when actual letters were still exchanged and the anticipation when a letter finally arrived.  

To me the book covers a nice variety of topics and experiences of people that are now either retired or approach retirement age. I think every reader will find some stories that resonate with them and remember some events of their youth. I also enjoyed the questions that related to events in the youth of the reader. While citing specific milestones, they were still generic enough that almost everyone can relate to the experiences such as a first pet or a the first job.

This is a really nice book by the author and I find it useful to pick topics to talk about with aging relatives who should read, but do not have the energy for a whole book. I should also mention that the book is in large print and so very easy to read by older readers.  

 

 

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This book was provided free of charge to me in exchange for an honest review. The opinions expressed in this post are my own and have not influenced by any third party.