Reading With Your Kids Podcast

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Reading With Your Kids - The Sex Decision Sep 12, 2017

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Jedlie's nationally acclaimed school assembly program gives students information they need to make healthy choices for their lives. To find out more please visit www.jedlie.com

Ellen Piano is here today to talk about her book The Sex Decision. As the title implies the book deals with a decision all teens face, whether or not to have sex. The book also many other issues facing teens today. While our conversation today is dealing with mature subject matter there is no graphic content.

Find Ellen's book on Amazon here

Reading With Your Kids - The Cat's Pajamas Sep 10, 2017

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Inspire students to work cooperatively to build a bully free school. Please visit our web site www.jedlie.com

Our guest today is Sojourner McConnell. Sojourner McConnell is grandmother to thirteen grandchildren. With all those grandchildren, she has crafted her storytelling skills. Sojourner's new book is a children's chapter book, Who's That in the Cat Pajamas which is available on Amazon now.

Please click here to find Sojourner on Amazon

Reading With Your Kids - Let's Go To The Moon Sep 09, 2017

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Jedlie's fantastic picture book The Great Maritini is a fun & funny book that teaches kids kindness. Click here to get your copy today.

We love authors who inspire kids to learn about STEM, especially authors looking to inspire girls to look into Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathmatics. Our guest today, Carmela Dutra, has created a wonderful book that inspires all kids to reach for the stars, and the moon. Little Katie Goes To The Moon is a book you will want in your child's library

Click here to get your copy of Little Katie Goes To The Moon

Reading With Your Kids - Beagles Invade Sep 07, 2017

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The Great Maritini is a fun story that teaches kids to be kind. Get your copy here today.

Today our guest is Rosie Russell, the author of the wonderful kids book Beasley's Journey and many others. Rosie studied Early Childhood Education and taught students in elementary and middle school for fifteen years in the Midwest. Rosie now writes and illustrates full time and is looking forward to sharing her books with students, encouraging them to write and illustrate their own stories.

Click here to visit Rosie's Amazon page

Reading With Your Kids - Escape From Cuba Sep 05, 2017

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Jedlie's We Choose Respect School Assembly program inspires kids to choose to be respectful to everybody, everyday, everywhere. To find out more please visit www.jedlie.com

Lizette Lantigua is here to tell us about her thrilling Mission Libertad. This work of fiction is based on many true stories of people escaping persecution in Cuba. Lizette also talks to us about her Good News Book Fairs which are very popular among Catholic schools and churches

Click here to visit Liz's Good News Book Fair page

Reading With Your Kids - Kindergarten Chronicles Sep 03, 2017

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The Great Maritini is a fun and well written morale story. A wonderful retelling of the parable of the Good Samaritan in a modern and inclusive non-religious way. Get your copy or read for free at Amazon

Veteran educator Dr Terance Shipman is here to tell us about his fun time as a kindergarten teacher & about the value of having males teach younger kids. He is also here to invite us to be a part of his kickstarter campaign to make Mr Shipman's Kindergarten Chronicles come to life.

Click here to visit Dr Terance Shipman's web site

Reading With Your Kids Legends of Erin Sep 02, 2017

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The Great Maritini inspires kids to be kind and caring. Get your copy or read for free here at Amazon

Its time to celebrate. The Reading With Your Kids podcast is 100 episodes old. We have had some fantastic guests, and our 100th guest is no exception. Meadow Griffin, author of Legends of Erin, joins us for a really fun chat about fantasy and the true nature of leprechauns

Click here to find Meadow's books on Amazon

Reading With Your Kids - The Gerbs Are Coming Aug 31, 2017

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Jedlie Is Coming - The new school year has begun, and Jedlie is on the road inspiring students to transform caring into action. To find out how you can bring this incredible school assembly to your area please visit www.jedlie.com

Oh you are in for a treat. Today's guest Lydia Lukidis is full of energy and lots and lots of fun, just like her books. Today we learn about her amazingly fun picture books Gerbs in the House and Melvin and the Madcap Musical.

Click here to find Lydia's books on Amazon

Reading With Your Kids - Please Wait Mommy's Working Aug 29, 2017

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Don't wait! Available dates to bring Jedlie's nationally acclaimed school assembly programs are filling fast. Find out how Jedlie can inspire your community to be caring and respectful. Please visit www.jedlie.com

Today we are joined by mom, baker extroidinaire and author Shennice Cleckley. She is here to celebrate being a mom, and to tell us about her wonderful Mommy & Lewis picture book series.

You can find Shennice's books here on Amazon

Reading With Your Kids, Power Down, Parent Up Part 2 Aug 27, 2017

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The Great Maritini is a wonderful and amusing story about a magician for whom things have a tendency to go wrong from time to time. Beautifully written with a nice message at the end. Click here to get your copy.

We take a bit of a departure from our typical format. Our guest today is Recovery expert and therapist Holli Kenley. Holli has recently released her latest book for parents Power Down, Parent Up. In this decade, our digital world has grown exponentially as has the degree of time both adults and children are spending on their screens. Not surprisingly, researchers are discovering a myriad of unhealthy behaviors associated with excessive screen time. In "Power Down & Parent Up", Kenley expands on her groundbreaking book Cyber Bullying No More, giving parents/guardians effective strategies to integrate into their lives and their children's. How can we navigate a tech-driven world and raise tech-healthy children? This interview was so filled with important information we couldn't fit it all into just one episode.

Find your copy of Holli's Power Down, Parent Up here