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Great audiobook! Informative. Good real world examples. Good explanation. Good recommendations for Thank you PRHAudio for the complimentary audiobook!
Great audiobook! Informative. Good real world examples. Good explanation. Good recommendations for schools, institutions, and home life. A good wakeup call for anyone who use tablets for free babysitting services.
My son's private school brought this book to my attention recently. I'm glad the school is taking active action due to this book. The school's principal and middle school director read it and will be hosting a meeting for parents next week to educate us about how important this book is for us all. I couldn't help myself but listen to an audiobook and I wholeheartedly approve of the school's action to change, keeping a screen-free school to encourage kids' social presence.
This book, informed me that I should keep my children away from smartphones and social media. It's been researched that smartphones kept kids away from real life activities and instead pulled their attention to the activities in the metaverse and in turn causing an increase in mental health illness. Increase in screen time for boys and girls are harmful. Girls not feeling happy with themselves when looking at other girls on social media and starting self harm. Boys having free unlimited access to X rated videos and multiplayer games alone in their room causing violence tendencies externally. Generation Z for anyone born after 1995 grew up with smartphones, social media, instant access to friends and strangers' happenings is keeping kids from living their life in the present. The pressure to keep up, to have what others have, etc. Kids are more miserable and depressed than before, more suicidal than before.
It's a full time job keeping up with social media and the lives of others in the metaverse. Kids are having sleep deprivation and social deprivation. Addiction to smartphones and tablets is keeping them from playing in-person activities and trying new things. Me too as an adult. I spend a lot of time on instagram. Some on Facebook, Tiktok, X, YouTube, and Goodreads. The time spent here are free but cost me money because I could be able to get a second job and earn money with that time. Kids shouldn't juggle screen time with school time giving them no time to play in the playgrounds or running around the blocks....more
Read this book for my toddler as a story time. In this book, we learned about this little bird called Swift! This bird is amazing! It can fly from AfrRead this book for my toddler as a story time. In this book, we learned about this little bird called Swift! This bird is amazing! It can fly from Africa all the way to Northern Europe and can stay on the air for 4 years.. It sleeps while it fly with half of a brain being active and then switch over to the other half of the brain later. It eats and groom itself while flying. It can withstand the heat of the Sahara Desert and fly through it without resting at the oasis. Love learning about this bird reading this book! Also, readers will learn about different topics like what is the Congo, what is it when the Swifts has a gathering and how they live especially how high they can fly as well as the different types of Swift. Excellent children's book and great illustrations!
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My 4 year old loved working on this workbook! The shapes are fun especially in the shapes of a donut, presents, hearts, a mouse, xylophone, and more. My 4 year old loved working on this workbook! The shapes are fun especially in the shapes of a donut, presents, hearts, a mouse, xylophone, and more. She also learned the names of shapes like hexagon which she didn't know before and a review of circles, triangles, squares and other shapes she already knew. The lines were presented in different forms that were fun to draw like zigzags in the mouth of an alligator. Diagonal lines to make a spider web. This activity book is excellent for kids! My toddler loved it. This is the second workbook from the author that my toddler worked on and loved. I highly recommend this workbook for all kids before attending kindergarten!
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This workbook is excellent. My toddler enjoyed it so much! I love the variety of activities. Makes learning so much fun. She did a few pages a day. SiThis workbook is excellent. My toddler enjoyed it so much! I love the variety of activities. Makes learning so much fun. She did a few pages a day. Since she can't read yet, I sit with her to read out the directions. It's easy to follow. There is an answer key at the end of the workbook but we didn't have to use it. She's excited to start another workbook soon! I highly recommend this workbook for all toddlers getting ready for kindergarten!
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Read this book of famous quotes. Useful and thought provoking quotes to apply for yourself. This book also accompany the author's questions about you Read this book of famous quotes. Useful and thought provoking quotes to apply for yourself. This book also accompany the author's questions about you and how you will apply the quotes for yourself. Example: "If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely." Roald Dahl accompanied by "what are three thoughts that made you smile today?" And "I Am Not Afraid, I Was Born to Do This" Joan of Arc accompanied with "What is your greatest motivation in life?" This book is great! It gives you the opportunity to think about yourself and improve yourself and understand yourself better. This book is organized in different fonts and colors so it looks nice. Some loopy fonts are a bit harder to read than others for me anyhow but I like the different shapes and sizes.
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Interesting read and audiobook. It's good to know more about the end of Twitter. This book talks about Elon Musk's willingness and unwillingness exchaInteresting read and audiobook. It's good to know more about the end of Twitter. This book talks about Elon Musk's willingness and unwillingness exchanges before, during, and after takeover and the Twitter employees fighting for their jobs. It also talks about the owners before Elon and the ex-CEO. It talks about employees working at all hours to keep Twitter afloat and the demanding of Elon's projects. This book mentioned the mass layoffs, sell off of Twitter furniture and decorations, and the tweets. Elon's tweets. Everyone's tweets. A strong focus on Esther, the employee who slept at work during the transition period to keep up with the demand of the new Twitter owner. Her pessimistic attitude was a bit annoying at times. It's interesting that she would want to tell Elon what to do. He paid so much money for Twitter, he should do as he pleases. There's the harassment on the employee who quit. I googled that he was the one who banned Trump.
I was familiar with the heated battle surrounding Twitter but didn't follow closely. This book gives a good glimpse into what went on at work for Elon and employees. Employees getting locked out of their work laptop as a way to know that they have been fired was interesting. I now know what is needed to build Twitter aka X... Engineers! I enjoyed the audiobook and I have since started posting more books on X.
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Read for my toddler's bedtime. Great story! We have read this book a few times and loved it every time. My toddler and I had fun looking through the iRead for my toddler's bedtime. Great story! We have read this book a few times and loved it every time. My toddler and I had fun looking through the illustrations and finding hidden creatures hiding through camouflage in their habitat. This book, we learned of many animals such as flower mantis, buff-tipped moth, African Gaboon viper, frilled lizard, and more. They camouflaged themselves to the surrounding so well that it's hard to spot them. There are examples of harmless animals that looked similar to deadly animals that the harmless ones took advantage to stay safe. An example is the scarlet king snake vs the coral snake.
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This audiobook was a great listen. A few times, I thought it would have been amazing to have Britney's music playing in the background but I guess it'This audiobook was a great listen. A few times, I thought it would have been amazing to have Britney's music playing in the background but I guess it's not possible. I can't imagine what Britney went through being talented and popular as she was then. I loved her music growing up. I listened to her songs all the time. I still kept her CD even until today. It's definitely sad that her family treated her that way. I have never read her mom's book or her sister's book. Thank goodness for that. I'm so glad she finally tell her side of the story. I get teary eyed to know what she went through. And I dislike how people take advantage of a woman through her kids. It's hard to believe that family is the ones who are supposed to love you but chose to hurt you instead. I'm glad she has her freedom now.
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Read this book for my toddler's bedtime. Excellent facts about each planet in our solar system. Written for kids so it's easier to read and understandRead this book for my toddler's bedtime. Excellent facts about each planet in our solar system. Written for kids so it's easier to read and understand. There are definitions within the story for big words but there is a glossary at the end of the book if readers want to know more. There are information about the moon, asteroids, and dwarf planets. There is information about the sun and which planet we can see with our eyes. My toddler and I enjoyed this book greatly.
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Read this book for my toddler's bedtime. Great book told by a caterpillar in a rhyming way. The caterpillar introduced each bug and there are facts abRead this book for my toddler's bedtime. Great book told by a caterpillar in a rhyming way. The caterpillar introduced each bug and there are facts about each of them. I love the ending of this picture book because it gave young readers hand on activity pages to work on. There are mazes where the honeybees travel to a flower and my toddler got to draw a line around the maze. There are matching games where my toddler drew a line from word to bug and from bug shapes to bug. There are bug pattern games. There's the bug hide and seek for my toddler to find hidden in the leaves. My toddler loved this book! She got to learn about spider, honeybees, ladybug, caterpillar, and many more!
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Read this book for my toddler's bedtime. A fascinating story even though it makes me feel like the woman without a husband is too gullible to know howRead this book for my toddler's bedtime. A fascinating story even though it makes me feel like the woman without a husband is too gullible to know how to take care of her money.
I love reading nonfiction picture books for my toddler. True story with illustrations. The best of both worlds. In this story, readers learned about Idaho in the 1870s and how people search for gold and silver. The land that had silver was owned by Minnie Moore who found some silver by accident before it was sold and the new owner who found some more. The new owner got married and later had a son. Somehow he died early and his wife was tricked so she lost her savings. She had to make a living so she decided to raised pigs but where she was living was not an ideal place to raised pigs so she moved.. not just moving herself and her son but also her home. The idea of moving her mom is one I haven't thought of before!
Definitely an interesting story I haven't heard of before. I enjoyed the illustrations. The dogs and pigs had fun expressions on their faces. My toddler asked why the lady had a net on her head. An interesting customs of the 1870s funeral maybe! Excellent book!
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Read this book for my toddler's bedtime over a couple of nights. We loved learning about animals and their help during the war. It's awesome that manyRead this book for my toddler's bedtime over a couple of nights. We loved learning about animals and their help during the war. It's awesome that many of these military animals received awards for their services. It reminds us to think of them more than just animals because they are smart and helpful. Even on a daily basis, there are dogs that police help to sniff out drugs. I love those birds who delivered messages. I also love the military horse as well as dogs. An excellent read for all ages!
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Thank you PRHAudio for the complimentary audiobook! Thank you Doubleday Books for the opportunity to read and review!
This story is narrated by the autThank you PRHAudio for the complimentary audiobook! Thank you Doubleday Books for the opportunity to read and review!
This story is narrated by the author. It's great! I enjoyed it. Good humor. The book discusses about variety of different topics and tips. The start of the story is about snoring husband and the author's friends' common agreement with their husbands snoring too and on sleep arrangements so that the couple can still have a good night sleep. All of the things Helen mentioned, I have done them: kick the husband to stop him from snoring and then pretending to sleep ...more
Read for my toddler's bedtime. A fun read with educated explanations.. makes the kids smart to hear scientific explanations of words like first law ofRead for my toddler's bedtime. A fun read with educated explanations.. makes the kids smart to hear scientific explanations of words like first law of motion, gravity, density, etc.. The fun part my toddler enjoyed are the fun ways kids have fun in the bath like playing with bubbles, splash, bath toys, and more. Great kids book!
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Read for my toddler's bedtime except after a few words in she stopped me and said she already knows them! So we went through this book with her namingRead for my toddler's bedtime except after a few words in she stopped me and said she already knows them! So we went through this book with her naming the items. I only teach her the ones she doesn't know like Trowel, Shed, Flowerpot, Badger, and more. This book is excellent for toddlers! The illustrations are cute and so many variety of words: sandcastle, boat, lighthouse, mushroom, pine cone, ranger and his binoculars, and so many more! I love the flaps to lift up and see another picture and words. My toddler enjoyed this book and I can see we will be reading it over and over again! This book is intended for readers ages 0 to 3.
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Read this book for my toddler as a story time. Fascinating book with quick facts about the great white sharks and an easy to understand read. Young reRead this book for my toddler as a story time. Fascinating book with quick facts about the great white sharks and an easy to understand read. Young readers will learn about how many baby sharks which are called pups are born or inside their mother's tummy at a time, how tall the adult sharks is and comparable to an animal they are sure to recognize. Beautiful illustrations of the underwater! Readers will learn how sharks eat and the surprise facts about their scary serrated teeth! I loved learning about great white sharks and I have read this book a few times for my toddler.
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Read for my toddler's bedtime. Multiple times! Amazing book about trees! The see-through pages is awesome! Illustrations is excellent. I love the viewRead for my toddler's bedtime. Multiple times! Amazing book about trees! The see-through pages is awesome! Illustrations is excellent. I love the view of the roots and what's going on with the tree underground. The view of animals nesting near the roots in the dirt underground is good info for readers. How trees are homes to many animals above ground and underground as well as providing fruits and oxygen for humans is interesting.
This book explains what is a tree and the different parts of it. There's info of it from the seed. There are info of flowers and pollen, leaves and photosynthesis, fruits and seeds, insects hurting the trees and how it protects itself against those insects eating the trees as well as those eating the trees' roots. This book is a favorite read and learn for my toddler and I.
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This book is awesome! I just read through it to know what types of prompts there are. I'm liking them. Just wish I can draw though! I'm afraid to ruinThis book is awesome! I just read through it to know what types of prompts there are. I'm liking them. Just wish I can draw though! I'm afraid to ruin such a pretty book with my bad drawings haha.. but it's definitely something peaceful to do on a quiet day or rainy day or sunny day. I would love to sit under a shaded tree and look at the distance and draw! That's one of the prompts in this book to draw by the way! Specifically "Look into the distance" and "Draw something in the foreground that you can see" and "Draw something in the foreground that you can't see" Some other prompts are "Draw five things you saw today" or "A sky full of raindrops or teardrops" or "Draw the sky from a dream" or "Draw and notice the patterns of seashells" and so many more! Great illustrations!
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Read for my toddler's bedtime. Not sure if it's a kids book with all those scientific explanations of hypothesis and solid matter.. but a quick read wRead for my toddler's bedtime. Not sure if it's a kids book with all those scientific explanations of hypothesis and solid matter.. but a quick read with kids on high chairs eating messily! My toddler likes seeing the babies' eating pictures.
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