While the kids are sprinkler-running and friend-playing, maybe I’ll be able to sneak in a few reading sessions… {?}
I did hear that kids need to see their parents reading to be encouraged to read. I’m pretty sure that’s necessary.
My list keeps growing and growing, really. I’m normally a novel reader. Give me a good novel and I’m happy, but this summer I think I’m in need of some definite non-fiction.
Finish:
- Beautiful Things Happen When a Woman Trusts God by Sheila Walsh
- Shepherding a Child’s Heart, Revised and Updated by Tedd Tripp
- Life’s Healing Choices by John Baker
- Platform by Michael Hyatt
- Pursuit of Proverbs 31 by Amy Bayliss
- Made to Crave by Lisa Terkeurst
Start:
- Real Moms… Real Jesus: Meet the Friend Who Understands by Jill Savage
- Educating the WholeHearted Child by Sally Clarkson
- The Well-Trained Mind by Susan Wise Bauer (do I really need to read this one? I’m undecided…)
To Break up the Thinking & Improving of Myself:
- the latest in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. I heart the Ladies’ Detective Agency. Really.
What will you be reading this summer?
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I really would like to read Educating the Wholehearted Child too! Right now I’m reading a couple of Kindle books I downloaded and also America’s Cheapest Family again.
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I haven’t heard of America’s Cheapest Family- sounds like something I would benefit from!
It’s by Steve and Annette Economides–I bought it on Amazon–and it’s a really good book on budgeting, being debt free and saving money in a variety of areas. They have a lot of ideas I hadn’t thought of and it’s very Biblically focused.
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Yes on Welltrained Mind, you don’t have to read the whole thing just the parts that pertain to your kids, most the book but not all of it:) Just if you love classical like I do
Love the Sally Clarkson one too, but haven’t finished it yet!
Okay, okay. I’ll add that to the list! I got a couple emails about it too…I think I’m just “educationed” out right now! But I do love to read up on it generally speaking.
I will check these links. Thanks for sharing it.
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Just finished Anything by Jennie Allen (so so good..you’d LOVE it).
Currently reading–
Amazing Dad (letters from Wilberforce to his children)–Stephanie Byrd
A Wrinkle in Time
The Explicit Gospel–Chandler
1000 Gifts (round 2 for a summer-book-bible-study)
Reading at nights as a family–
The Hiding Place
Hoping to read–
another Wendell Berry book
the books our big kids are reading this summer (Mrs. Frisby and Rats of NIHM, The Secret Garden, The Moffats, Calico Captive, Mandy, Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Westin Game…along those lines
I really appreciated Sally’s book…and Tripp’s book (if you haven’t read Paul Tripp’s–Forever (eternity amnesia)…it’s worth sticking on a mental “someday list”).
I want to hear if you think Hyatt’s book is worth reading…
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Kara, I’m enjoying Hyatt’s book – though it is a lot of what you and I probably already know, there are some good nuggets too.
I LOVED Mandy books when I was younger!
I’ve heard about “Anything” from a few places, might have to add that one too!