Book recommendations for parenting

Here are some books that I recommend that are available from the Greater Phoenix Digital Library. You just need a library card with a pin to one of the local libraries.



Secrets of the Baby Whisperer by Tracy Hogg
Unfortunately this one is only available as an audiobook.



The Diaper-Free Baby by Christine Gross-Loh
I only found this recently, so I haven't really tried it with my baby yet.



Love and Logic for Early Childhood by Jim Fay
I haven't read this one yet, but I did like Parenting with Love and Logic by Foster Cline and Jim Fay (not available from the library).



What to Expect when You're Expecting and What to Expect the First Year and others by Heidi Murkoff
There are more of these books, but I've only read the first one so far.

Poem School

I like to use a sing song voice for this one kind of like the Fun song from Sponge Bob.

School

S is for summer vacation is over.
C is for citizenship.
H is for heaps of homework.
O is for outstanding grades.
O is for observing the rules and instructions.
L is for lots of learning.

Poems Haiku

They aren't really Haiku or even that good, but I was just messing around with the 5-7-5 syllable pattern one morning when I couldn't sleep. I decided to give them titles.


Reading

If the Braille bug bites
When you read in the darkness,
You can feel the words.


Crunch

When eating apples
Be prepared for the crunching;
Most like them crispy.


Begging

Eating bananas?
Prepare to share with babies;
They love bananas.


Thomas

Sit in a window.
Watch out for little fingers;
Do not ever harm.


Knick Knacks

Sitting on a shelf,
But I'm not a Christmas elf:
Forgotten treasure.