by Laurie Bluedorn | May 16, 2006 | Reading Aloud
I picked up the pamphlet that your son Nathaniel wrote entitled Hand That Rocks The Cradle. What a great blessing that little booklet has been! I have a 7 year old and a 3 year old, and they just love when mom reads to them. I know the time I have spent reading to my...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Apr 7, 2006 | Reading Aloud
I started reading aloud to my children in 1981 after the birth of our fourth child. Naturally, all along I had been reading the baby picture books so often read to little children, but it was in that year that I started with the harder chapter books. I believe that...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Apr 4, 2006 | History, Reading Aloud
Tomorrow is Booker T. Washington’s birthday, and La Shawn Barber writes a piece summarizing his life and accomplishments. One of the best books I ever read aloud to the kids was his autobiography Up From Slavery.
by Laurie Bluedorn | Feb 20, 2006 | Reading Aloud
There are going to be days when you aren’t able to do much reading aloud. Blackstone Audio offers homeschooling families a 50% discount on all their regularly priced audiobooks. We just purchased The Little Colonel by Johnston, Howard Pyle’s Book of...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Feb 2, 2006 | Raising Children, Reading Aloud
Dear Laurie, I am in the process of getting rid of many of my children’s books. As we read through them my son was either upset about these horrid stories or I was skipping over stories, meanwhile being barraged with questions why. However, I need something else...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Jan 29, 2006 | Reading Aloud
Hi Laurie~ Our children are ages 8 and 11. Thank you for the “What to do…before age 10” article. I am trying to adapt a more loose structure for our 8 yr old (but finding it difficult to break from the format of traditional schooling!). My question...
