Why This Book?

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Books Help To Establish Bonding With Your Children

Some children read a book, sometimes even two, a day, and to them a trip to the bookstore seems as exciting as a trip to the candy store. This is no accident. If you want to foster your child’s interest in reading and writing it’s important to build associations between books and things that already have positive connotations: spending time with family, attention, adventure, ownership, and freedom.

Set aside a good chunk of time for a trip to the bookstore; when a visit to the bookstore becomes an expedition instead of an errand it offers a great opportunity for family bonding.

If your child chooses a book, talk to them about it, pay attention, let them feel that their tastes and interests are important to you. Learning to choose good books is a skill that can only be developed through a process of trial-and-error. But even if your child occasionally ends up with a book they don’t like, don’t think of it as wasted money. Even complaining about why they don’t like a book gives children a valuable chance to learn to differentiate between styles, and to think about what makes the difference between dull and interesting content. These skills will be invaluable when they begin writing more themselves. Instead of just paying for what they choose, give them an allotted allowance to spend. This will give them experience with budgeting, while at the same time building their mental association between books, freedom, and independence.

Feel like you don’t have time for all of this? Think of it as investing in the future. The time you take to foster your child’s love for books will pay off ten-fold not only in their quality of life, but in yours. Kids who spend a couple of hours a day reading spend a couple of hours a day less getting into mischief. But you may have to field some surprising questions.

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Do you know a child between the ages of 4 and 11?

Chances are you do; and chances are that he or she probably fits in to one of the alarming statistics listed below:

• 54% of small children, if given the choice would rather watch TV than spend time with their fathers.

• Parents only spend an average of 38.5 minutes per week engaging in meaningful conversation with their children.

• National Center for Health Statistics states that 15% of America’s children are obese.

• Children spend more hours each year watching TV than they spend in a classroom.

hTrae Kids (www.htraekids.com) is committed to reversing these trends.  The best-selling children’s book “hTrae’s Big Book of Magical Formulas” provides hours of violence free family oriented entertainment that helps parents to teach their child(ren) the positive aspects of life.  With step-by-step instructions, families can make toys out of common household products.  These 25 formulas will provide quality parent/child interaction for days (not hours, or minutes).  Complete with over five areas of fun, it can well be called the “World’s First Entertainment Center for Kids in a Book.”

Here are the five areas of fun:

1. Twenty Five non violent, fun, educational, exciting and family oriented projects where kids make their own toys from common household products.
2. For each toy there is a coloring page of 1 or more of the characters playing with the toy
3. It’s a story/reading book. For each coloring page there is a story line
4. Eight travel games that kids (and adults, but not the driver) can play while traveling in a car, bus, plane or other vehicle. Includes character drawings.
5. A teaching aid that helps kids learn all about the positive aspects of life in a fun and entertaining way.

Here are what your kids will do and learn:

• Dexterity – making toys from scratch
• Imagination Skills – different ways to play with the toys they make
• Coordination
• Self Esteem – accomplishing the creation of their own toy
• Creativity
• Social Skills How to share – working with other kids and adults to accomplish a finished product
• Learning Skills – many and various learning skills are developed by using this best selling book

Every child you know deserves quality time with the adults in their life, to get started click here now.