{"id":193,"date":"2009-07-19T05:35:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T11:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/?p=193"},"modified":"2009-07-19T05:48:19","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T11:48:19","slug":"summer-reading-lifelong-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/summer-reading-lifelong-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reading &#8212; Lifelong Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do I use a library?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I first locate the children&#8217;s section followed by the &#8220;NEW&#8221; non-fiction books.\u00a0 Hopefully, they are in a close proximity of each other so that I can keep an eye on my children and browse the new books at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Although this is my method whenever I go to any library; this summer, I came to the realization that I am really a lifelong learner.\u00a0\u00a0 I pick books on topics I am familiar with &#8212; but want to know the latest tidbits about.\u00a0 I also pick books that just sound interesting to expand my horizons.<\/p>\n<p>These are my first two selections of the summer:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=petals-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=1590304713&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In her book, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Creative Family<\/span>, <a title=\"Soule Mama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.soulemama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda Soule<\/a> takes us back to basics with our children as &#8220;less is more.&#8221;\u00a0 Her many ideas spark even more for her readers.\u00a0 Some of my favorites include:\u00a0 having kids transfer a favorite drawing to fabric to embroider, the idea wire, using good art supplies for family drawing time, stenciling a T-shirt.\u00a0 I have tried some of her ideas, and many more are on my list to pull out on a rainy day.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=petals-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B002BLZ6H8&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My second selection, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Staging Your Comeback<\/span>, was a bit more of an educational stretch for me.\u00a0 I consider myself rather casual in the beauty area &#8212; don&#8217;t wear much makeup, simple clothes.\u00a0 In this book, though, Christopher Hopkins tagged me as a &#8220;Classic,&#8221; and taught me a few tricks that I have already incorporated.\u00a0 The big point here is you can be comfortable without looking &#8220;dumpy,&#8221;\u00a0 and that it doesn&#8217;t take a whole lot of time or money to do so.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend both for a great summer read!<code><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I use a library? Well, I first locate the children&#8217;s section followed by the &#8220;NEW&#8221; non-fiction books.\u00a0 Hopefully, they are in a close proximity of each other so that I can keep an eye on my children and browse the new books at the same time. Although this is my method whenever I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,10,19,18],"tags":[37,38,39,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}