Recommended readings

The Magic Recipe Book is a beautiful book about healthy and fun eating for kids that I want to teach you, written and illustrated by a mother. Desiree Arancibia is an entrepreneurial mother who chose to stop working when her daughter was born, and decided to create a homemade recipe book to show that children can enjoy eating healthy.

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A year ago we told you the appearance of a series of books for small travelers with the signature of the prestigious Lonely Planet. Today we announce the edition of two new travel guides for children, those dedicated to China and the United States. The book about the United States tells exciting stories about the Wild West, cockroach races, a huge cannon and weddings in Las Vegas.

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According to figures from the International Labor Organization (ILO) about 215 million children and adolescents worldwide work. Of these, 14 million make it in Latin America, a reality that captured a group of photographers who traveled to those lands. This is where "La hora de rereo" was born, a book that shows the need to eradicate child labor in Latin America.

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This book “Where is God, Dad?” Will help give those answers in a rational, scientific and understandable way to all atheist parents when their children ask them about this fascinating Universe in which we live. Children, logically, ask themselves many questions about the causes of things, including about the Universe, its own existence, life and death, evil or suffering.

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In Babies and more we often bring you ideas to enjoy with the children, and if you want more proposals, even one for each day of the year, we propose the book “365 experiences with your children”, whose subtitle clarifies what we will find: “Original plans to enjoy in Spain”. If you like to enjoy original and fun adventures with your children, here you will have many proposals, from being a pastor, beekeeper, magician or chef for a day, going to a children's music festival, sleeping in a circus caravan or with sharks, to bathe with sea lions, build an igloo ... It is a work of Mavi Villatoro and Sarah Lages, creators of the Mammaproof mother and father blog.

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Recently, World Breast Cancer Day has been celebrated, whose motto this year was "Súmate al rosa". This disease is suffered by approximately 20,000 women in our country, and thanks to all the advances, breast cancer survival has increased significantly. But there is something that will always be difficult, and it is telling your children (and more if they are small), what is happening to you.

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What is behind the desire to be a mother? What awaits women who decide to start fertility treatment? How many fertility treatments are there? What happens if the treatment does not reach the expected success? What if the baby finally arrives? To all these questions answers the book "The desire to be a mother", a work that delves into fertility treatments.

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A book has just gone on sale that I will strongly advise you. I think it can be definitive for Spanish society to understand and accept homeschooling and prepare to ensure that families who decide to educate at home can do so normally. The book is "Answers and reflections of a homeschooler mother" and its author is Azucena Caballero, whom we have recently interviewed.

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On different occasions we have talked to you about those childhood fears that make children suffer and that they are different at each age. A formula to help children dissipate their fears is children's stories, because they rationalize the feeling and try to give explanation. There are stories like "Blue Beard" or "Juan Without Fear", traditional stories explicitly related to fear, but most stories arise from that attempt to explain what is evil, darkness, monsters, ignorance, madness … The Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Foundation has an interesting publication that can be read online and that constitutes a reflection on fear in children's stories and a practical bibliographical selection of stories classified by themes.

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A new book on homeschooling entitled "Educate as a family" has just been published and will be officially presented at Biocultura de Barcelona on May 6. It is also the first book on home education written in Catalan. The author, Anna Ferrer Burriel, has extensive experience in family education, since she started doing it 35 years ago and has followed this model with her 15 children.

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I present today a book that I discovered recently: "Dad, I don't want to go to school. I get bored!", And I have to forcefully recommend it to you. Each word in the book demonstrates how obsolete the education system is and proposes viable solutions to improve it. I try to keep up with all the movements and works that appear around the need for a change in the educational model to modernize it, making it more respectful of the needs of children and more coherent with the advances in neuroscience.

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Some children have a hard time brushing their teeth, but if we get used to it, it will be easier. Also if we make brushing our teeth something fun, to which this book we can see or download online, "The book of clean teeth" can contribute. The book is part of a collection of the Difrax childcare brand prepared by different medical experts such as a pediatrician, a child dentist or a food consultant.

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For parents who want to know another way to introduce solids in infant feeding I recommend a good book on baby-led weaning that I just read entitled 'The child already eats alone'. It has come to light a couple of months ago and is the Spanish translation of the book 'Baby led weaning' by Gill Rapley, which explains the ABC of this form of food also known in Spanish as ACS method (learn to eat alone ).

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With 'What do we do today? The 100 best plans to enjoy Madrid as a family 'there is no excuse not to enjoy with the kids in the city. It is a leisure guide for family in Madrid full of ideas, tips and sites that you can visit with children. Whether you live in Madrid or if you are visiting for a few days, the guide will help you plan interesting outings with the children.

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It is worth making a parenthesis to look towards one of the continents where it is more difficult to have childhood. I want to introduce you 'Seeds of words', a solidarity book designed to help children in Africa through the Foundation for the Rights of Children and International Cooperation.

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"To be more it costs you less." The Spanish Federation of Large Families (FEFN) has a new edition of the Advantages Guide for its members, which contains discounts and advantages on products and services of companies that operate nationwide (in Spain) and have decided to support families numerous, facilitating access to certain assets.

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Enrique Blay has a degree in Psychology from Bircham University and a therapist, a man passionate about the knowledge of the emotions of babies and children. Working with adults he came to realize how important emotional life is in pregnancy, childbirth and childhood of human beings so that they can then develop as happy and self-esteem people.

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This week the International Day of the child with cancer has been celebrated, and we have talked to you several times about the subject. Although the date has passed, it never hurts to recommend interesting resources for affected families, such as this book "Nutrition for children and young cancer" that we can find online.

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I want to recommend today a book taught by our fellow kitchens of Direct to the Palate. This is My Baby Recipe Book, by Jenny Carenco, a compilation of dishes that we can prepare for the little ones, but that is more than just a recipe book. It contains 113 recipes for babies from the first scoop to three years of age, when they practically eat everything.

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