Peaches, Popcorn and Me: A New Adventure

Peaches, Popcorn and Me: A New Adventure: When my daughters were younger, I would  snatch a few moments everyday to blog about our lives together . The older one, then in  preschoo...

Peaches, Popcorn and Me: In Which We Make Crafts from Mexico

Peaches, Popcorn and Me: In Which We Make Crafts from Mexico: My name is Popcorn and the lower butterfly is mine and in the old days the Maya people lived in Mexico and  the monarth butterflys. Hi ...

Peaches, Popcorn and Me: Harry Potter and Me

Peaches, Popcorn and Me: Harry Potter and Me: Hi! It's me again ,Peaches, and I'm here to tell you about how I got around to knowing and loving Harry Potter. I started readi...

Peaches, Popcorn and Me: All About Thailand

Peaches, Popcorn and Me: All About Thailand: Today I went to Thailand, (not really, it was a craft! ) and it was so cool!!  In Thailand, elephants are considered sacred. I went w...

Peaches, Popcorn and Me: Julie, Daisy and Cupcake

Peaches, Popcorn and Me: Julie, Daisy and Cupcake: Hi its Popcorn and first I have to tell you all about me.  I am a pink little sister and a bit of a pest  I have three little things...

Peaches, Popcorn and Me: Hi!it's me Peaches. Today we are traveling to I...

Peaches, Popcorn and Me:


Hi!it's me Peaches. Today we are traveling to I...: Hi!it's me Peaches. Today we are traveling to India! India is my home town and it is a very exciting place. In India, one of the f...

Bedtime Stories

Ever felt guilty about feeling too tired to read a bedtime story? Promising you will read it tomorrow or rushing through it as fast as you could? We have all been there and felt awful afterward. After all, we are supposed to read kids from infancy to enhance their development and make them smarter. Or so the research says.And all of us can remember that wondrous time as we discovered the world through the magical lens of children's stories and what a strong hold they had on our imagination.

This week in the Washington Post, Michael Dirda reviewed Maria Tatar's "Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood". Fairy tales enthrall, the author says, because they present gripping contrasts between good and evil, beauty and horror which impact the imagination. A bored child is distracted by curiosity and explores these tales. Curiosity then leads to a sense of wonder, a sense, as Dirda notes, that anything is possible. That is an invaluable gift. How many children, blind to this wonder, have grown up to be sad people who have no hope in their lives and can't bring any to others?

Tonight, all promises will be kept. Peaches and Popcorn will get the full set of Eloise's adventures and a bonus Angelina Ballerina!