Artscroll’s cookbook sale ends on May 11th – and there’s never been a better time to start making all those recipes you’ve always wanted to try. If your home is like many of ours, dinner seems to be a bigger production nowadays. The family is finally sitting around the table together, we’re meal planning better…
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13 Books and Series Your Child Will Enjoy
We can all use some good new books for our kids these days. Chavie Bruk shares some of her favorites with all of you!
A Curated List of Wholesome Pre-1990 Secular Books
It’s hard to find kosher books among the secular books written today. But it wasn’t like that when we were kids. These are the books you might have read when you were young…and that your child might enjoy today. We’re usually very hesitant to share secular books on Between Carpools since everyone has different standards…
12 Book Series for Your Elementary Age Child
Book series are great because they keep a child busy for a long, long time. We’ve made recommendations and provided the information on each series listed below on kosherbooks.org to let you, the parent, make the choice. When we first set out to give our kids pre-checked, appropriate reading material, we focused on the most…
Should You Censor Your Teen’s Book? (+ Book Recommendations)
As kids get older, it becomes harder to find them appropriate reading material. So what’s a mom of an avid reader to do? To edit or not to edit our children’s reading material. While in the secular world the “c” word is an anathema to many, we in the frum community are caught in a…
Is Laura Doyle’s Book Consistent with Jewish Values?
So many have improved their marriages by using the Laura Doyle techniques. But are these techniques in line with what the Torah would advise us? By a BCP Reader We recently received this letter from a BCP reader after we published the post Are You Married to a Figment of Your Imagination? by Laura Doyle…
Mom, Wish There Was an Online Book Store Full of Vetted Secular Books? There Is!
Encourage a love of reading (or feed a voracious reader) at Menucha Classrooms – the online bookstore with a huge selection of vetted secular books (and Jewish books too of course!). What’s a mom of a voracious reader to do? My kids always want to read the latest, but the content in many popular books…
10 Timeless Books That You Can Share With Your Own Kids
Some kids need endless amounts of reading material. But how do you know what’s kosher or not? We’ve read all the books so you don’t have to. They say a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. When my friend and I started pre-reading our children’s books 20 years ago, we never…
5 Activities Parents Can Do to Improve Their Children’s Reading Skills Over the Summer
Don’t let your primary and first-grade children lose the reading skills they gained over the school year during the summertime. As a busy reading specialist in Lakewood, I often hear the following from parents: “My child made so much progress in her reading abilities during the school year; I’m worried that now she will lose…
4 Good Books To Guide You To a Healthier Weight
These books don’t tell you to eat something different. They teach you to train the way you think. I always had an issue with body image. It’s something I struggled with my whole life. I had come to a place where I was just so sick and tired of dieting. I started Weight Watchers at…