....Being the perfect parent

now I know that that is a touchy phrase to use. I am no where near a "perfect parent". My 3yr old stays up late, doesn't eat her veggies/fruits at every meal, may go a day without brushing her teeth, etc so this year, as part of my 50 Book Challenge I am reading parenting books. Most of what I've read have been good. Good pointers that I hadn't thought of, different ways to approach things, stuff like that. (If you look over in my sidebar you will see some of the books I've read so far.) I think it had a lot to do with the parenting class I took last year. It was only a 6 week thing, not really official, just a positive parenting class. Most of the books I have were mentioned in the class so that's where I got my start. I've been looking for the Love and Logic books but just haven't found the one for kids, not teens.

I've read "How To Talk......" which was really good, that one was in the class and was worth buying. I plan on passing it on to a mom I know who is having problems withe her son, so I think it will be a good one for her. I went to a Walden books store that was closing in Tucson and spent $100 on books!!!! That's right, One Hundred Dollars, but in my defense they were not all for me. I got one bag of books for me and one for Savie. And of course since it was just days before the store was to close there wasn't much of a selection but as you can see, I did just fine.

Anyways I had bought "Queen Bee Mom's", "How to Behave" and a couple of other books but these two are squeals and once I found that out I had to go buy the first ones so I could understand what is going on in these.

But this book, Positive Discipline, this one I can't read. I got 4 pages into it and came across a paragraph that just turned me completely off of the book. I don't know if I can post it here but it's about "controlling" mom and losing "control" of the kids. The way it's worded is just wrong. And then on top of that it also talks about the civil rights movement has messed with parenting and that was it. I couldn't read anymore. I may just try and take this book back and get my money. I have no problem with books, or rather the author, telling me what I should or shouldn't be doing with my child but to tell me that because "Dad lost control of Mom, they lost control of the kids" just rubs me raw. Maybe it's just me but I don't think so. Please tell me I'm right about the wording.

50 Book Challenge

Ok I know some of you are hoping that I have finished another book but I have hit a little snag. I am reading "Queen Bee Moms & King Pin Dads" but it's a little hard to follow since she keeps referring to her first book "Queen Bee's and WannaBee's" so I am going to put this one on hold until I can get that book. Luckily I have another book that I've started already, "The Cursed" and it's a good read. Good thing I bought a lot of books when I went to the store closing in Tucson a couple of weeks ago.

50 Book Challenge

Well I finished another book. Yeah!!!!! and it didn't even take me a whole month to do. This time around I read "How to talk so your kids will listen......" It was a good read. I took a positive parenting class a few weeks ago, before Christmas and this was one of the books that we used. There was a lot of good stuff in there and I will definitely be passing in on to another parent.

50 Book Challenge

Well I finally did it. I finished a book. That's right a book. From the way things go I might not get a full 50 book read this year but we will see. I finally finished reading "For the Love of Money" by Omar Tyree. It's the sequel to Flyy Girl and that was a good book but for some reason this was just slow to read. I'm hoping that my next one, The Cursed by L A Banks, will go by faster. I love her books.

50 Book challenege

Well I'm not as far along as I was hoping to be but I will stick to this. I have 12 books read so it's no that bad i was hoping that by summer I would be at a halway point but we'll see how the rest of the year goes.

Book #7

The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner is a great book. Now I really have to see the movie. It's not the book I thought it would be, there's a lot of background to it, but that's a good thing. It took me a little longer to read than I thought it would but I think that's mainly because I was working on a crochet project as well. Now on to one of the two books I have, lol.

50 Book Challenge

Book #7


Red Hat Society's Domestic Goddess by Regina Hale Sutherland. This was another book I got from one of the mommy's from my playgroup. It was good. I was very surprised but I think I've getting pretty close to my limit of books that are out of the ordinary for me, lol.

Book #6

A lot of post today, lol

Finished another book today, this was a little quick. Good read. Don't have much more to say about it. "On Tall Pine Lake" by Dorothy Garlock. It's got a little romance, a little mystery.

Book #5

I just finished reading "The Santa Cruise". It was ok not something I would have read on my own but it was a book another mom gave me. Sorry I don't have more to say about it.

50 Book Challenge

Well another book in the books, sorry for the pun, but I finished this one a lot faster than I thought I would. Finished "The last White Knight" by Tami Hoag in a day, I haven't done that in a long time but with no computer to play on and still waiting for my yarn to get here I can start on my crochet project so I had nothing to do but read. It was not what I was expecting mostly because I don't read romance anymore but this was ok.

50 Book Challenge~~book #3

I just started this and know that I can read 50 books in a year. Mom you know I can do this right? wink wink. I am a confirmed book-aholic. I have to have something to read and reading a magazine doesn't count for me, I need a novel, something that's over 300 pages preferably but I will read just about anything. The challenge for me is to read authors that I normally wouldn't. I'm pretty sure this will happen since my library doesn't have a big selection of the books I would normally read, i.e. Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Ann Rice, and they haven't written anything new in awhile except for Koontz. So now I have to either buy new books or try new authors.
The thing that I've noticed that I do is read everything that one author had written and then try to find something similar that's how I started with Dean Koontz. But this is suppose to be a book review so let me get to it.

I just finished "The Buffalo Soldier" by Chris Bohjalian. I didn't remember this author but I've read one of his other books, "The Midwives". I loved this book it was a great look at a family trying hard to stay together thru the death of their children, adopting another, and an affair. You see everything from a different persons perceptive and also gets snippets of the buffalo soldiers. Some may find it confusing but I liked the way it was written. (I was never good at giving book reports in school so forgive me if this sounds boring, ha.) I definitely recommend this book to others.