Steady Days: A Journey Toward Intentional, Professional Motherhood
10 best books like Steady Days: A Journey Toward Intentional, Professional Motherhood (Jamie C. Martin): Marilla of Green Gables, Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids, The Confusion of Languages, The Nesting Place: It Doesn't Have to Be Perfect to Be Beautiful, The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction, Uncovering the Logic of English, Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids, Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children, Grumpy Mom Takes a Holiday: Say Goodbye to Stressed, Tired, and Anxious, and Say Hello to Renewed Joy in Motherhood
| Author | Sarah McCoy |
| ISBN | 0062697730 |
A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables . . . before Anne: A marvelously entertaining and moving historical novel, set in rural Prince Edward Island in the nineteenth century, that imagines the young life of spinster Marilla Cuthbert, and the choices that will open her life to the possibility...
Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
| Author | Peter O. Gray |
| ISBN | 0465025994 |
Our children spend their days being passively instructed, and made to sit still and take tests—often against their will. We call this imprisonment schooling, yet wonder why kids become bored and misbehave. Even outside of school children today seldom play and explore without adult supervision,...
The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids
| Author | Sarah Mackenzie |
| ISBN | 0310350328 |
Connecting deeply with our kids can be difficult in our busy, technology-driven lives. Reading aloud offers us a chance to be fully present with our children. It also increases our kids’ academic success, inspires compassion, and fortifies them with the inner strength they need to face life’s...
The Confusion of Languages
| Author | Siobhan Fallon |
| ISBN | 0399158928 |
A searing debut novel from the award-winning author of You Know When the Men are Gone, about jealousy, the unpredictable path of friendship, and the secrets kept in marriage, all set within the U.S. expat community of the Middle East during the rise of the Arab Spring.
Both Cassie Hugo and Margaret...
The Nesting Place: It Doesn't Have to Be Perfect to Be Beautiful
Perfection is overrated.
Popular blogger and self-taught decorator Myquillyn Smith (The Nester) is all about
embracing reality—especially when it comes to decorating a home bursting with boys, pets, and all the unpredictable messes of life.
In The Nesting Place, Myquillyn...
The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
| Author | Meghan Cox Gurdon |
| ISBN | 0062562835 |
A Wall Street Journal writer’s conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction.
A miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another,...
| Author | Denise Eide |
| ISBN | 1936706008 |
Multiple award-winning book on reading and spelling education that will transform how you think about English! Discover the method that Dr. Temple Grandin called "really helpful for teaching reading to children who are mathematical pattern thinkers..."
For the past 70 years students...
Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids
| Author | Kim John Payne |
| ISBN | 0345507975 |
Today’s busier, faster, supersized society is waging an undeclared war . . . on childhood. As the pace of life accelerates to hyperspeed–with too much stuff, too many choices, and too little time–children feel the pressure. They can become anxious, have trouble with friends and school, or even...
Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children
| Author | Angela J. Hanscom |
| ISBN | 1626253730 |
In this important book, a pediatric occupational therapist and founder of TimberNook shows how outdoor play and unstructured freedom of movement are vital for children’s cognitive development and growth, and offers tons of fun, engaging ways to help ensure that kids grow into healthy, balanced,...
Grumpy Mom Takes a Holiday: Say Goodbye to Stressed, Tired, and Anxious, and Say Hello to Renewed Joy in Motherhood
Most days motherhood often looks like bottomless piles of laundry; a sink full of dishes; sleepless nights; and unshowered, nonstop, endless days. If that’s all there is, then no wonder “Grumpy Mom” sometimes sneaks into your heart and home.
If you can relate, you’re in good...
The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor
| Author | Mark Schatzker |
| ISBN | 1476724210 |
A lively and important argument from an award-winning journalist proving that the key to reversing America's health crisis lies in the overlooked link between nutrition and flavor.
In The Dorito Effect, Mark Schatzker shows us how our approach to the nation's number one public health crisis...
| Author | Deirdre Riordan Hall |
| ISBN | 1477829385 |
I’m the fat Puerto Rican–Polish girl who doesn’t feel like she belongs in her skin, or anywhere else for that matter. I’ve always been too much and yet not enough.
Sugar Legowski-Gracia wasn’t always fat, but fat is what she is now at age seventeen. Not as fat as her mama, who is so big she hasn’t...
What is enough? Enough is a very personal metric. Like our center of gravity, each of us must find what is enough by swaying from less to more until a comfortable medium is found. The goal, then, is not to find what is, or will be, enough forever. That is impossible. The goal is to discover the tools and strategies...
Loose Parts: Inspiring Play in Young Children
| Author | Lisa Daly |
| ISBN | 1605542741 |
Winner of the 2015 Brain Child Award from Tillywig & Toy Media Awards
Use loose parts to spark children's creativity and innovation
Loose parts are natural or synthetic found, bought, or upcycled materials that children can move, manipulate, control, and change within their...
The Confident Homeschooler: How to Thrive in the Day-to-Day
Stop making homeschooling more difficult than it has to be.
As a homeschool mom there is a good chance that you are your own worst enemy. Unrealistic expectations, your public school past, and worry combine to sabotage the peace in your homeschool day.
In order to take charge of your...
| Author | Tracie Peterson |
| ISBN | 0764225170 |
Book 1 of the Desert Roses series. Working as a Harvey Girl at the luxury resort of El Tovar, located on the south rim of the Grand Canyon, Alexandra Keegan feels she is in a dream come true. But when her father's indiscretions come to light and her mother is suspected of murder, Alex finds herself the center...
| Author | Tracie Peterson |
| ISBN | 0764225197 |
The final book in the Desert Rose series was very interesting. This one was set in 1931 - during the Great Depression - in the Southwest. The main two characters - Rainy and Sonny - are a brother and sister team (twins) who drive and give tours out of the Harvey Hotels. There is a scandal in the making as items...
| Author | Tracie Peterson |
| ISBN | 0764225189 |
Ashley Murphy was raised well off, but when she went against her parents wishes and married Ethan reynolds all that changed. Her mother disowned her and told her she was dead to their family. Then her new husband went off to serve in the great war after only a new months of marriage, never to return or so she...
