The Kids’ Book of Adventure Projects
Where to buy: www.amazon.com

The Kids’ Book of Adventure Projects will keep your children occupied with fantastic adventure projects for hours and hours. They will forget about their favorite TV programme and computers and enjoy building real wooden toys.

Firstly, the children can read up on basic tools and how they can be used effectively. They learn about hacksaws, hand plane, coping saw, hand saw, brace and bit, chisels and others. The author talks about how to safely work with tools, where to work, different glue types and finishes.

The projects in the book include:

* How to make a boomerang
* How to make a barometer
* How to make a magic propeller
* How to make a Movie Ghost Box
* How to make an Army Tank
* How to make a Model Airplane
* How to make a Kaleidoscope
* How to make a Slingshot
* How to make a Compass
* And much, much more

Through these exciting building projects, children will gain valuable confidence to know that they can build proper toys from scratch. It teaches problem solving, patience, craftsmanship and woodworking skills and scientific principles. The finished projects will be treasured as gifts by anyone who receives it.

In the book Essentials of Smart Parenting, they combined their knowledge to produce a guide book for all parents. Parenting is one of life’s greatest adventures. It can be difficult, scary, sad, and stressful, but also a very happy experience. In their book, the two authors provide parents with the tools and advice that improves their parenting skills and at the same time reduces the stress associated with raising a family.

The book is written in a very easy to read style and takes into account not only the parents’ needs, but also the needs of the children. By implementing the given strategies, harmony in the house will improve and raising the children will be more fun. In their book, the authors talk about the main principles, which are:

* United we stand
* ABC or always be consistent
* Give yourself a time-out
* Act, don’t react
* Pick your battles
* And more

The book offers parents easy to implement strategies and advice on how to make parenting a much happier and less stressful experience for both parents and children alike.

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Sometimes when I am traveling or between novels, I pick up a “Chicken Soup” book. For those of you who have never read one, they are anthologies of essays on a particular topic. They range from books about parents to cancer to being a pet lover. What I like most about the whole series is that you can read them for just a few minutes at a time when you have a chance. Essays range from about 1-6 pages long.

While at the store the other day, I picked up “Chicken Soup for the Working Mom’s Soul.” It seemed a pertinent read given that I have been a working mother since the day my first daughter was born.

In the beginning, I loved the book. Some of the essays were about work at home moms, which applied to me. I was literally laughing out loud at some of the things that were written. Then the book took a turn that confused me a little bit. One of the chapters was about how being a mother is a job. Without getting into that argument, it was odd to appear in the book because the essays were about women who quit their jobs to stay at home with their kids. Maybe they wanted to be sure that within the title “Working Moms” they included those whose job is being a mother? I’m not sure, but the essays seemed out of the flow of the others.

Then I got to an essay that really hit home for me. It started like this: “When I tell another mother that I work from home and she says, ‘Oh, that must be the ideal situation,’ I know one thing about her, even if we’ve never met before. She does not now, nor has she ever, worked from home.” I’ve met that woman 50 times, I think, and she has always made the same comment!

The book got back on track for me and I found myself excited to be reading about moms who I could completely identify with. These were the moms who do the same balancing and juggling that I do on a daily basis. They are probably the same moms who are happy to pick up a book that they can read for 5 minutes at a time and enjoy.

You should be able to pick up “Chicken Soup for the Working Mom’s Soul” (by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Patty Aubery) at any bookstore, including Borders, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon. If you are a working mom, you will absolutely identify with many of the essays and cry and laugh right along with the authors.

Tricia Meyer is a mom of two daughters and small business owner. Find more information about Work At Home Moms at WAHMStudy.com.

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