The Mother-Daughter Book Club Rev Ed.: How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together to Talk, Laugh, and Learn Through Their Love of Reading
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (706 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060890347 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Mother Daughter Book Club: One of My Favorites C. Samuels This warm, inspiring book offers perhaps one of the best ideas ever - creating a mother-daughter book club for preteens in the service of building a communication network for those tough adolescent years. In the process the growth among both moms and daughters is lovely and the suggested books on the money. It suddenly occurs to me that it's kind of a predecessor to Reading Lolita In Tehran in that it is structured around meetings of the group over the years. I've given away countless copies.. One Persons Journey Through A World of Books Thoughts: Style 1: Mother: "I have an idea, let's start a mother daughter book club. We can assign books that are better literature than those books you read all the time. It will give us a chance to talk about the really important issues of life. And when you hear the other mothers opinions you will see I am not the only one who thinks like I do". I can hear the footsteps fade as she runs the other direction. Style 2: Mother: "What would you think about inviting a group of your friends over and their moms to read books and then have a get together with refreshments where you girls would get to relax and we'd all get to share what we thought of th
It's about communicating values to children in ways that work. It will help mothers and daughters connect in new ways and save many Ophelias from drowning."--Mary Pipher, author of "Reviving Ophelia""The Mother-Daughter Book Club is an idea that is so wonderful, so full of commonsense goodness, why has it taken so long for it to be born? This could easily be the catalyst for a national movement."--Jim Trelease, author of "The Read-Aloud Handbook . "This is a book that was waiting to be born, and angel book sent to give mothers and
Her second book, One Hundred Books for Girls to Grow On, offers a selection of both new and classic titles, and it serves as a companion to The Mother-Daughter Book Club. Department of State. Shireen Dodson is Special Assistant to the Director, Office of Civil Rights attaché U.S. She lives in Washington, D.C., and is the mother of three children.
But it is also a practical step-by-step guide—filled with stories, anecdotes, and reading lists—that will inspire parents to start reading clubs of their own.Shireen Dodson's message is a powerful one: Reading, learning, and sharing ideas can help nourish a daughter's confidence, strength, spirit, and independence. The Mother-Daughter Book Club is not merely about books. A reading club offers a mother the opportunity to enjoy her daughter's burgeoning mind as she moves toward womanhood. Newly r