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Japanese kids carry their own handkerchiefs

Primary education - a funny book from 1920
Blue's Clues
Doro dango

Pool opening ceremony Japan
Japanese- My first Errand
Forest kindergarten
pg-153 children learn by making and breaking their own rules.

Alice in the wonderland goes high school

Growing up, we enjoyed an ad for oil where a puri (fried/puffed mini tortilla) rolls down a heap, and a kid has to watch out for that. It was a feast on the table, but the change in the perspective like from the 'Honey, I shrunk the kids', awakens us to our surroundings.
Lenny, the son of scientists is in love with a girl and he's about to change her mind about him at the molecular level. With the power vested in sciences - physics, microbiology, he finds his way into his girl's blood and is hitch hiking to her brain. All the friends (Astrocyte) and foes, he meets on the way of crossing Blood brain barrier make up for a great imagination in progress. To learn and remember the stuff like Perforin in here would take a long time and wouldn't last long in the head if we were to do it from a science textbook. I am taken by the technical in the book. But there's a play going on. You know how it is, when a play is to happen in high school. Drama.
The book alternates with chapters from 3 different point of views. Dan Brown style going on in terms of the frenzy shift.
It reminded me of the 'natural history of things' by Diane Ackerman and 'stiff' by Mary Roach. While these books are static knowledge, the middles schoolers like some action with their vitamin K. If you like knowing things in general and insides of human body in particular, you are in for a read. Watch out for those NKs (natural Killers).
There's a reference to Lunching with sharks.

anti-war poetry and the oxymoron of liberal fathers

Project Muse

How to get a pet or more? Crazy plots from Emma.

In the slow first half, the children in the family set stage for their demands of pets. Plotting for pets is such a hot topic. The kids pick a lesson from their parents life and use it to for their demands too. The book has tiny plots patched together, which dont work. Soccer Nanny has nothing to do with soccer. And most of the book is about how to get pets. Nanny is just a mediator into the adult world for Emma to get her way.

Wish Emma wasnt so possessive about the Nanny who seems to be her helpline for all her friend problems. The Nanny has never been to camping before. So the camping Nanny is a novice. If you have to buy an Emma Dilemma book then the soccer Nanny is better than this. 
personal journal class.

Culture points

Everyday life

Why we greet? celf Center of Everyday lives for families studies the significance of such things that we take for granted.

Cherish life with your children

Having read `Cooking for Gracie' and ` How to cook like a man' I wanted to see how the hunter feels at home.
While authors and musicians can decrease the stress of parenting, the author with an idea of the parent he wanted to be, didn't mind climbing over the parental gender gap. It is not a blow by blow of everyday parenting but the big picture of how parenting changes the perception of a parent. The author uses anecdotes from his and his wife's experiences to make his point in the story of great parenting of understanding your childhood/self through your children.
His parenting story takes an extraordinary turn with his daughter's type I diabetes requiring regular monitoring of insulin.
The language is simple. The book operates at an emotional level. The author's lessons can be extended to how to enjoy life itself and not just parenting, by being there.
Little incidents like storing practice home run balls, letting his child shop for the doll he wants long enough to see the achievement of picking the most wanted illuminate how life can be saved in our memory as a sweet memento.

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