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The second edition of the Mother-daughter book club newsletter will be on the way in just a few days. There’s still time to sign up and receive the latest issue.

This month I’ll be featuring a review of Frank Cottrell Boyce’s new book Cosmic, and The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson. There’s also an interview with Heather Vogel Frederick, author of The Mother-Daughter Book Club, and a profile a the book club I’m in with my youngest daughter, Catherine.

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Family Fun Magazine’s A Great Resource

I only make recommendations on this site for media that I believe can be truly helpful to your book club group and for parenting in general. Here’s a magazine I use for ideas about things to cook and activities to do with your child or your book club. It’s called Family Fun, and its Web site, familyfun.com is a good companion. It’s great for recipes, and over the years I’ve cooked many selections from the magazine’s pages then served them to my book club members. Shepherd’s pie, bread popovers, broccoli cheese soup…they were all hits. And they’re usually easy to prepare too, since directions are written to make it easy for kids to help out.

My youngest daughter always checks the Family Fun pages and the Web site when she’s trying to decide on a Halloween costume. And I get quite a few helpful ideas that have been submitted by readers, too.

Check it out the next time you need a boost in creativity.

Daughters - Great Parenting Newsletter

 

Featured in a recent e-mail announcement from Daughters newsletter was this comment about MotherDaughterBookClub.com: “…find loads of guidance at the Mother Daughter Book Club site for starting a tandem club (and dads, no reason you couldn’t do a Dad-Daughter club, too)˜founder Cindy Hudson, mom of two girls, will be giving details in an upcoming Daughters.”

I’ve been a subscriber to Daughters for years, and I’ve always gotten tons of very usable advice for raising my own daughters in each issue. I love the format too. At only 16 pages bi-monthly, it’s something I can easily read in the bits and pieces of time I have between working, volunteering and keeping my household running. And amazingly, it comes without advertising. I even save the back issues to reference later when I’m actually facing an issue with my daughters that was written about in the newsletter.

In the current issue I particularly liked the articles on girls and economic self-sufficiency and raising a daughter to be optimistic and resilient. So I’m very excited to be adding my name to the list of contributers to this publication I’ve gotten so much from through the years. Check out Daughters and see if you like it as much as I do by signing up for a free issue.