Review: JUST WATCH WHERE YOU WALK!!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 25, 2013
Loved it!! Unfortunately my own children couldn't go barefooting outside because of the occasional snake in our country subdivision.They did shed their shoes as soon as they hit the door, just like I've always done.Beautiful pictures! Great rhymes !And I love that Mom is cooking. My children weren't reared on fast food. That's why they eat all kinds of veggies now.The only thing I don't like is the boy ignoring his mom when she calls him to help with the chores. That would earn some pretty serious punishment in my house, including no friend at dinner, no dessert, staying inside instead of playing outside, no TV, no video games, no music of any kind...You don't run away when Mom calls, or when Dad calls. And you always do your chores before playing.One of my children had ADD. I created a stack of file cards with all of his different chores on them and punched one hole in the left corner. Each day I would sort through and pull out the chores he needed to do that day and put them on a ring.If there was no school that day, I handed them to him after breakfast; if there was school, I gave them to him after school.The system worked for him. I can't take credit for it. It was in one of the many books I read about ADD. But if he had run away like the boy in the book, he would have been in just as much trouble as his siblings and he knew it.This book can be rewritten with (hopefully) very little trouble. My children were very small when I would dump a load of laundry on my bed and shout," Calling all Care Bears!"They would run to my room, pick out their clothes, and put the clothes in the right drawers.We're the clothes folded neatly? Of course not! But when Daddy came home I could brag that each of them had put their clothes away and they were so proud! Besides, the clothes in the drawers were only play clothes.I would put 5 minutes on the microwave and they would race against the clock to pick their toys up. Anything left on the floor belonged to me instead of them. Funny, they always got everything picked up.Children don't have to be older to help out!