The Body Scoop for Girls

This book is actually for parents with tween or teen girls.  I had my reservations of posting it but my heart says it might help other parents like me.

I saw this on Today show.  The author, Dr. Jennifer Ashton, is an Ob-Gynecologist.  She interviewed teenage girls.  The interview was about personal hygiene and the importance of going to an Ob-Gyn for their health and well-being. 

The girls were open to Dr. Ashton.  Honestly, I'm stunned by their answers.  It was quite an awakening.  One girl said that most of the girls she knew in school are involve in sexual activities.  And they don't have the right idea about menstrual cycle, breast and bone health, or protection from diseases and pregnancy.

I have two young girls and I'm anticipating for challenges I'll be facing in raising them when they're teenagers.  I'm a conservative parent and practicing Christian and family values are very important for me.  Times are changing.  I'd like to protect them from getting hurt due to high-risk adolescent behaviors, by providing them facts.   Most teens really get the wrong information from their peers.  These are mostly myths and hearsays.  And it's scary.

As parents, we are responsible in teaching our children how to respect their self as a person, how to understand their changing body and how to take care of their health and well being.  We can do it by communicating with them in a non-threatening way and with respect.  It's not easy to have a conversation of this subject with a teenager.  And I'm not sure if these are taught in school.  But I really think that this book will help a lot.  It offers a lot of helpful information.  It's better to get the right information from you and the book than from somewhere else.

Little Quack's Hide and Seek

My toddler likes this book so much because it's a hide-and-seek book.  She giggles alot when Mama Duck starts looking for Little Quack.

The book is about a mother duck and her five ducklings playing hide-and-seek.  The four ducklings found a hiding place but Little Quack.  Little Quack is a resourceful duckling.  He found the best hiding place!  Find out where it is.

Little Quack's book is not only a cute and funny story but it also teaches simple arithmetic.  Mama Duck counts one to ten.  While she counts, there is a "Quack-u-lator at the bottom of every page.  It's basic subtraction of numbers that coincides with the number of ducks left in the illustration. 

Little Quack's Hide and Seek is written by Lauren Thompson and illustrated by Derek Anderson.

The Christian Mother Goose BOOK of NURSERY RHYMES

My husband bought this book, The Christian Mother Goose, for our kids.  Our kids love this big book.  Instead of reading it, we are singing the words to the tune of familiar nursery rhymes like Twinkle, Twinkle.  I think this is a brilliant idea of teaching kids about Jesus and God's grace.  Children can easily understand it because of the simple words.  Best of all, the kids can easily remember it because these are familiar songs.

One of my favorites is the Jack and Jill.  The lyrics go like this:

Janck and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water.
A man there said, "If you drink this, You'll still be thirsty after."

"But there is water Jesus gives, so won't you ask Him first,
to give you Living Water so that you will never thirst."

Up Jack got and home did trot, a whole mile and a quarter,
To tell the Good News to his friends, about God's Living Water.

The book is written by Marjorie Ainsborough Decker and illustrated by Sarah Gibb.