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Stories, tips, and things we've learned about raising kids with big feelings.

Pre-Reading for the Kid Who Won't Sit: Movement Methods
Jul 14, 2026
Pre-Reading for the Kid Who Won't Sit: Movement Methods
Some preschoolers do their best learning at a dead run — and the standard picture of pre-reading (child sti...
Library Storytime: The Free Ally of Learning to Read
Jul 14, 2026
Library Storytime: The Free Ally of Learning to Read
Every strategy list of books for preschoolers to learn to read should include one line item that isn't a pu...
Books for Preschoolers to Learn to Read in Bilingual Homes
Jul 14, 2026
Books for Preschoolers to Learn to Read in Bilingual Homes
Bilingual households carry a specific reading worry: will two languages confuse the pre-reader, slow the st...
Label the House: Print Beyond Books for Preschoolers to Learn to Read
Jul 14, 2026
Label the House: Print Beyond Books for Preschoolers to Learn to Read
Books for preschoolers to learn to read do the heavy lifting — but they have a free, underused ally: the pr...
Wordless Picture Books: Secret Books for Preschoolers to Learn to Read
Jul 14, 2026
Wordless Picture Books: Secret Books for Preschoolers to Learn to Read
It sounds like a contradiction: books with no words, recommended as books for preschoolers to learn to read...
Kids Books and Audiobooks: The Pairing Most Families Miss
Jul 13, 2026
Kids Books and Audiobooks: The Pairing Most Families Miss
Somewhere along the way, audiobooks picked up an asterisk — does listening count as reading? — and families...
Kids Books in a Small Home: The No-Shelf-Space Playbook
Jul 13, 2026
Kids Books in a Small Home: The No-Shelf-Space Playbook
The reading advice all assumes square footage: the book nook, the display shelf, the library wall. Meanwhil...
Kids Books as Party Favors: The Goody Bag Upgrade
Jul 13, 2026
Kids Books as Party Favors: The Goody Bag Upgrade
Every parent knows the goody bag's life cycle: assembled at cost, distributed with fanfare, contents broken...
Kids Books in the Morning Routine: The 7 A.M. Reset
Jul 13, 2026
Kids Books in the Morning Routine: The 7 A.M. Reset
The modern family morning is engineered entirely around hurry — and hurry is exactly what young children ha...