What are you reading now?

[Michele]

I just ordered Molokai, which is my book club's pick of the month.

I read it a few years ago. The one that follows a girl? I really enjoyed it.

[TulipsAndSunscreen]

What's Nuture Shock about?

[ladymoreta]

It's a collection of studies about parenting habits and the unexpected results of the common things parents today do. One example is over-praising, and how it ultimately makes them less successful with lower self-esteem.

[diggitydot]

It's a collection of studies about parenting habits and the unexpected results of the common things parents today do. One example is over-praising, and how it ultimately makes them less successful with lower self-esteem.

Absolutely fascinating. I would LOVE to read it...

[weeniegeniewife]

I'm on the look out for some good nonfiction. I like the pop culture non fiction stuff like Freakonomics, Post American World, Nurture Shock, The Black Swan, Outliers.

I loved Outliers!

[ladymoreta]

Absolutely fascinating. I would LOVE to read it...

I'm loving it. The chapter I'm on now is about bullying. It also addresses things like IQ testing, lying, racism, vocabulary/speech, etc.

[TulipsAndSunscreen]

I'm on the look out for some good nonfiction. I like the pop culture non fiction stuff like Freakonomics, Post American World, Nurture Shock, The Black Swan, Outliers. Anyone reading anything thought provoking like this?
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You'd like the Breast book I mentioned earlier. It's in the same vein. Have you read anything by Atul Gawande? Love him and it's great non-fiction!

[ladymoreta]

For nonfiction, I just finished Bringing Up Bébé, about French parenting, and I've downloaded a sample of How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm, about parenting in lots of different cultures around the world. I just started reading the sample, and I think I'll end up buying it.

[GrayMatterWife]

For nonfiction, I just finished Bringing Up Bébé, about French parenting.

I LOVED THIS BOOK! I completely changed the way I present food at the table. No more "keeping it kid friendly"--I serve eggplant parm last night, and the kids gobbled it. If I serve something they don't like, they can politely not eat it (albeit and be hungry) and I will present it to them again later. And it works!! Eventually, they get used to it!

[diggitydot]

Totally didn't know that was a thing. I've always figured if my kids were hungry enough, they'd eat what I cooked. Granted, our kids are older and don't have any GI issues, but when DD2 started becoming really picky and demanding with food (toddler years), she learned very quickly that she wasn't going to get whatever she wanted.

[ladymoreta]

I LOVED THIS BOOK!

Me too! I've wanted to read it since it was mentioned in that thread awhile back. It was really interesting and helped to smooth out some parenting strategies I already sort of used.

[oceanchild]

I read it a few years ago. The one that follows a girl? I really enjoyed it.

Yeah, a young girl sent to the leper colony. It sounds good! Too bad I'm probably going to miss this month's book club meeting.

[SoonerTexan]

Okay, Gone Girl is really good. I'm hooked. I've missed getting really into a book.

[MrsK]

K1 took this off the shelf at the library and insisted I bring it home: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/193365...dir_mdp_mobile. It is a classroom guide for working with children who are "extra busy and kinesthetically natured."

[DCJenn]

Walden- for book group but it's been a while and I'd forgotten how profound it is.

I'm still reading Nuture Shock. I'm halfway though Explosive Eighteen- the next in the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. Totally predictable but fun brain candy. I asked for Mother's Day (and got) the newest David McCullough book The Greater Journey which is about Americans living in Paris in from 1830-1920s. I love all of his books- Kelly, if you like non-fiction that tells a story check out his John Adams or 1776 books. The one on the Johnstown Flood should be required reading for urban planning schools.

J.