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See Account Overview. Your account has been created. Upload book purchases, access your personalized book recommendations, and more from here. GOT IT. Love Makes a Family Sophie Beer. Whether you have two mums, two dads, one parent, or one of each, there's one thing that makes a family a family More Details. Sophie Beer 37 books 14 followers. Search review text. Displaying 1 - 30 of 75 reviews. What is a family? A family is made up of individuals who love.
I liked how this book shows a variety of families from one parent to two-parents. The book expands to include two females, two males, older parents or grandparents, and an interracial couple. These parents along with their children are showing love as they celebrate a birthday, splash in rain puddles, have a tea party in tree house, and read books in a homemade tent on the floor some examples.
They are spending times together and enjoying each other's company. The illustrations are bright and colorful and the black text really stood out on this shiny board book.
I liked the illustrations as I felt that the colors really popped off the pages and I liked the different activities that each of the families were participating in. I think this is a good book that addresses families, diversity, and differences.
Each spread features a different family unit, including mom and dad, two moms, two dads, single parents, and grandparents. All are shown lovingly engaged with their children. Love the representations of different kinds of families and how they show love.
The illustrations are fun and bright, but the style wasn't great for me. They reminded me of a happier Chris Raschka. The main idea in this book was love.
It didn't matter what your family consisted of as long as the family is showing some act of love. At the kindergarten age they are so naive and the biggest idea I want to teach them is empathy and kindness. I want my students to realize that everyone is different, as well as, their families. That is what makes us special.
I always teach that if we were all the same it would be so boring. The same can go in with learning about families being different. I love how the author not only showcased LGBTQ families but also grandparents and different cultures in the book. In the Article, Beyond Mere Representation in the Classroom, it states, "Many early gay and lesbian texts, in order to get published, had to remain chaste and innocent, often focusing on same-sex adult couples with children who engage in typically heteronormative activities.
Unfortunately, I also think I have liked these books because it is easier for me to have in my classroom library and won't get as much push back as other LGBTQ books. This shouldn't be the case because we should be able to have other LGBTQ books in our classroom without getting controversy.
Students deserve windows, sliding doors, and mirrors in books. Age: Infant-Preschool Diverse family units bond together through playtime, exploration, and celebration. A wide variety of families are present--from skin color, to age, to sexual orientation--just like in the real world.
Love is love is love and these families are in the throws of it. Bright colors and bold illustrations make this particularly appealing for virtual and in-person storytime. A cute little board book about love and families. I like that it represents different types of families, but would be worried about reading this to a broad audience for fear of offending people who are still arriving at 'tolerance' and 'acceptance'.
I like this book. It is a great way to introduce your little one to families. Brooklyn Tayla. Family is love, inclusive to all. This book celebrates families of all kinds and how we all love. Review follows here When I think about the kids we're raising, as a whole right now, I'm so goddamn hopeful for the future that I can't even really express it, for fear of losing my "unaffected internet witch" cool points Note: I do not actually have any of those points.
But it's true: I have been a part of raising the children in my life for ish years now, and - as the aunt of two adult niblings, a couple of teenage ones, and a handful of under tens - I gotta say, that, for the most part, parents these days are hitting it out of the fucking park.
If you spend any time with the youngest of adults or teenagers kids born around the turn of the century , then you probably understand that it seems to be working, at least so far - These young people are self-aware, they're culturally aware, they're open and accepting as hell, and they don't give two shits about "Well, that's the way we've always done it", or "Well, society says it HAS to be XYZ not ZYX," particularly in terms of the -isms.
Kids seem less hateful towards each other, less understanding of the status quo, and more willing and able to see, create, and be the change so many of us have been working hard for. And yes, I'm going to give the parents and extended influences of those young people a lot of credit for that- Hello Millenials, Gen X-ers, the youngest of Boomers who somehow turned into hippie grandparent- because every parent or person I know who's got even a tiny part in raising some kids seems absolutely determined to "do a better job", whatever that might mean to them personally.
And both of those groups of people, once they started having children of their own, basically looked around at the expectations of society, and how they really got screwed because of them, and were like "Fuck this shit: I'm doing better by my kid s.
It's actions. Show kids what that means. Which is really the most startling part of the whole thing, if you think about it, because every group of parents WANTS to do better by their kids, but - as we so often find out in hindsight - they very often fall incredibly short of those goals. And I'm not saying that X-ers and Millenials have perfected parenting with their Zs and Alphas: We will, without a doubt, begin having the conversations about how we messed them up any day now or, if you're lucky enough to have a couple of early Z-ers, you've already started having these conversations, and wow: aren't they fun?
BUT, in a lot of ways, parents around my age and younger put in some real work. We did research We went to therapy We dealt with our own traumas, in order to break generational traumas I literally know of no parents my own age or younger, who haven't - at the very least - done a shitton of self reflection and tried a different way, when they realized something they were doing yelling, spanking, bribing, fawning, helicoptering, whatever wasn't giving them the results - attentive kids, better communication, clean bedrooms, less spoiled brat behavior, etc - they were hoping for.
And we can say a lot of good things about our parents - the Boomers and Hippies, a lot of whom tried to do better in their own ways too - but self-reflection and re-examining the roles we all play in society and within families was not their strongest suit.
Hell, depending on how old your parents were, you could've been raised with full on "emotions are evil, shut that shit down" Silent Generation-ers, and still you're out here attempting Gentle Parenting and letting your kid have a tantrum in the Target parking lot. I'm so proud of you! We saw that society expected us to be independent, but that, as we got older, intradependence is what saved us, so we started teaching empathy and community and communication, even though we had to learn it from scratch then too.
We continue to get slapped in the face with the ways in which inequality is a planned feature of our society, and so we taught our kids to recognize it from the beginning, to name it when they see it, to actively work against it. Love Makes A Family.
Book format is also like a large board book, so this is really a good "all ages" kind of book. And that is the tools we use to engage in responsive, responsible, effective parenting or teaching, or counselling, or interacting with children in any way , and how one of our best tools for that is books. Like many of my fellow Cannonballers, books are a vital thing in my life.
I am not exaggerating when I say I would not be alive without them, and so I don't tend to underestimate how important they can be, ever, but I often see them undervalued in the greater world, which is unfortunate.
Unfortunate because books can be one of an adults most essential tools for teaching - well, for teaching anything, but if we're talking about how we go about teaching our kids how to become good people? Want to teach small children going out to face the big bad world of preschool alone for the first time that it's ok to be scared or lonely? Want a picture book that tells your kid that being their 'best' means being themselves?
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Publisher: Dial Books. Author: Sophie Beer. Age Range: Baby - 3 Years. Book theme: Parents. Language: English. Street Date : February 10, TCIN : UPC : Origin : Made in the USA. Description About the Book Ideal for any occasion, this fun, inclusive, and exuberant board book celebrates the one thing that makes every family a family: love. Full color.
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