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Raising children ranks as one of life’s most rewardingadventures. Yet between Mom and Dad working full-time jobs, endlesscarpooling of overscheduled youngsters, and the never-endingpressures to buy and consume, family life can beincredibly—needlessly—complex. What if you could find a way tospend more time with your children, replace unnecessary activitieswith meaningful ones, and teach your children an invaluable lifelesson in the process? Living Simply with Children offers arealistic blueprint for zeroing in on the pleasures of familylife: ? How (and why) to live simply and find more time to be with yourchildren ? Activities and rituals that bring out the best in every familymember ? Realistic ways to reclaim your children from corporateAmerica ? Helping children of any age deal with peer pressure ? Raising kids who care about people and the planet ? How to focus on the “good stuff” . . . with less stuff Including sections on limiting television, env
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Walking his two young children to school every morning, ThadCarhart passes an unassuming little storefront in his Parisneighborhood. Intrigued by its simple sign—Desforges Pianos—heenters, only to have his way barred by the shop’s imperious owner.Unable to stifle his curiosity, he finally lands the properintroduction, and a world previously hidden is brought into view.Luc, the atelier’s master, proves an indispensable guide to thehistory and art of the piano. Intertwined with the story of amusical friendship are reflections on how pianos work, theirglorious history, and stories of the people who care for them, fromamateur pianists to the craftsmen who make the mechanism sing. ThePiano Shop on the Left Bank is at once a beguiling portrait of aParis not found on any map and a tender account of the awakening ofa lost childhood passion.
Since it was first introuduced over a hundred years ago in the book The Wonderful Wizard of OZ.L.Frank Baum's world of Oz has becone one of the most beloved creations in children's literature and film.But who was the creator? Born in 1856 in upstate New york,Baum was a chassic "late bloomer"who tried acting ,selling and editing.Finally,in his late 30s,he took the advice of his mother-in-law,suffragist leader Matilda Geage,and Truned his attention to selling the stories he'd been telling to his sons and their frends.After a few books were published with varying success.The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was released in 1900.It quickly became a bestseller and has remained so ever since. When Oz was transformed into a "traveling musical extravaganza"that earned raves across America,Baum became rich and famous for the first timew in his life,inspiring him to embark on myriad theatrical ventures theat almost bankrupted this family on several occasions.Fourtnately.wife maud's business acumen saved the day,leavi
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