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Every Child Is a Genius : 365 Fun and Easy Ways to Develop Your Child's Gifts |
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This easy-to-read, homey guide on how to have low-cost fun with your kids is packed with creative ideas that should have parents thumbing through its chapters on a regular basis. Each of the short tips, grouped by age under topics such as reading, math, science, and computers, has an educational benefit--evidence of author Elise M. Griffith's background as a homeschooler. But this is a book written for all parents, not just those teaching their children at home full-time. Many of the activities may bring back childhood memories of planting seeds in egg cartons or casting handprints in flour plaster molds. Some are age-old and just plain commonsense. Practically every card and board game imaginable is listed. And while some tips are repetitive, many are clever. Griffith suggests, for example, showing kids how to write with "invisible" ink made of lemon juice, which magically appears when the paper is warmed in a 200-degree oven. The project turns into a science moment; parents can explain that the letters materialize because sugar in the juice carbonizes and turns brown from the heat. She also recommends turning on the closed captioning on your TV to encourage the Saturday cartoon crowd to read. And she provides hordes of homemade recipes for herbal soaps, sourdough starter, and soap bubbles, among other projects. Griffith writes in the beginning that she will consider the book successful if it becomes covered with food stains, its pages dog-eared. She will likely get her wish. --Jodi Mailander Farrell
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