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Interview with Book Author Jenna McCarthy

On todays show we welcomed back the always funny Jenna McCarthy to our show! Jenna was here to talk to us about her latest book that was just released a couple of weeks ago titled “Cheers to the New Mom/Cheers to the New Dad!: Tips and Tricks to Help You Ace the Frist Months of Parenthood“. This book is a flip book meaning you read one side of the book and it has tips for Moms and then you flip the book over and now it is Dad’s tips on that side.

Jenna is always one of our favorite guests with her funny wit and her tendacy to leave us speechless and laughing at the same time, and she didn’t disappoint us this time either. Jenna explanied that they wanted a fun and easy to read book that shares all those tips and tricks that maybe people don’t want to tell you when you are becoming a first time parent. Everything from how to keep your new baby happy and healthy, how to deal with well intentioned inlawas, how to keep the Father involved in caring for the new baby, how parents can still have time for themselves and their marriage. Of course this is written with Jenna’s brutal and funny way that not only helps to provide you with great information, but also leaves you with a aching stomach from laughing. We encourage you to sit back and enjoy this great interview! Also if you did not get a chance to listen to our interview with Jenna in February talking about her other book Parent Trip just do a search on our site to find the old interview. Also find below links to both of her books that you can purchase easily by just clicking on the Amazon links below.

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Guest Speaker Wendy- From Mobi Stories

We were so pleased last Tuesday to have with us Wendy from Mobi Stories. Mobi Stories is an wonderful site for both parents and children alike, offering digital  reading books for your children. This site offers wonderful stories that are animated with wonderful music and storytelling that you purchase the digital files and download them to your computer. This way your children can enjoy these stories for years to come. With our lives turning to the digital wave of our future Mobi Stories has also jumped on this bandwagon trying to promote literacy to our children by providing these wonderfully interactive digital stories for your children.

Wendy worked with her husband and other great individuals to bring you Mobi Stories to your children. One of the neatest features of their digital download books is all the diffrent formats they offer from applications for your computer or Mac, to applications for your IPod or your Iphone so your children can take their books on the run, which is a wonderful asset with today’s busy schedules.

Mobi Stories has also expanded to offering their digital stories in several libraries around the country including the New York Public Libary. On the site Mobi Stories they offer a FREE Digital book that you can view and try out to get the feel of what their digital books are all about. As a consumer you get a chance to see these wonderful books brought to life with wonderfully whimiscal music, someone acting out the story, beautifully colorful illustrations, and the kids also get to watch the pages flipping automatically. Not only does Mobi Stories bring the love of reading and literacy back to your children’s life, but the offer this in a fun and easy to go format that you can bring the love of reading with you anywhere you go. All of their digital books are very affordable from $2.99 a book and up. A very inexpensive price to be able to keep the digital books on your computers or ipods or iphones for future use.

Mobi Stories has become such a wonderful site that they are even partnering with well known author’s to help bring their books to life. If you are looking for a wonderful site to help promote literacy and reading in a child’s life we all highly recommend checking out Mobi Stories and please do not forget to listen to our interview with Karen by clicking here.

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Our Interview with Jenna McCarthy Book Author

We we so thrilled to have with us today Book Author Jenna McCarthy. Jenna was such a warm and inviting and FUNNY lady to chat with this morning it was a geat interview. This was probably the funniest interview I have given over my last three years, Jenna was a down to earth lady who talk about the joys of motherhood in the funniest way. Before becoming a renowned book author Jenna started her career writing for large magazine publications like Mademoiselle and Shape just to name a few.

Also during her career she was a Morning Deejay on a popular Early Show where nothing was NO HOLD bar, she talked about her marriage and her kids and it was huge hit. After writing all of her columns for her magazines and realizing that there wasnt any books out there that just told it like it is about being a mother and her pregnancy, she decided to write her book “The Parent Trip”.  Jenna shared with us how there are many baby experts out there telling you to raise your child a certain way, and her philopsy is that every child is diffrent and every Mom has their own parenting techiques. And whatever works for each individual Mom is great!

Jenna ’s book “The Parent Trip-From High Heels and Parties to Highchairs and Potties” is an honest and funny look at the trials and tribulations alot of Mothers go through that you are likely NOT to find in another book. The way Jenna uses humor to talk about such delicate subjects as giving birth is hysterical.  Listed below are just some of these chapters from inside the book:

• Anyone Seen My Maternal Instincts?
• 287 Days is a Really, Really Really Long Time
• This Just In: They Don’t Call It Labor For Nothing
• So That’s What They’re For!

Here is an excerpt from the first book that is so funny it literally sets the tone for this hysterical book.

I was Twelve the first time I had the dream. Maybe the health class I was taking at the time put the idea in my head: perhaps it was the litter of kittens our family cat had recently delivered. It certainly wasnt because I was worried about getting knocked up. That would be at least another four and half years.

Be sure to grab yourself your favorite cup of tea or coffee and sit back and plan on laughing hysterically as we interview the funny and sweet Jenna McCarthy! Also her latest book was just released on Amazon called “Cheers to the New Mom!/Cheers to the New Dad! Tips and Tricks to Help You Ace the First Months of Parenthood” You can purchase both of these books by using our links below and purchasing through Amazon!

Also if you would like to win a FREE Copy of “The Parent Trip” all you need to do is listen to our interview and tell us your favorite part and be sure to include your email address and we will draw a winner in a couple of days! And Don’t forget to stop by Jenna’s site to learn all about this funny lady and to keep updated on her latests books coming out!

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Kids and Books…Read Read Read!!!

We recently went out with some very dear friends, and the discussion turned to their 1st grader. They told us he is doing good in school, and got really happy when they told us he is one of the top readers in his class. They said he didn’t used to be, but recently there was a reading challenge given to his class. As with most classrooms, there is a boy in his class who is somewhat of a nemesis on certain things. During one of the classroom reading minute updates, our friends’ son saw this other boy had a lot more minutes read. That’s all it took…he went home, told his parents about it, and told his parents he was going to get more reading minutes than the other boy. That night he began reading more than ever before!

Not only did he win the reading challenge, he greatly improved his reading skills, and was recently given the only speaking part from his class at a recent school event! I could just feel the pride as his parents told us this story

For anyone who knows us, books have always been a large part of our lives. Our kids have always had books to read. The only downside is we have a hard time getting rid of them…still need to get some book shelves *sigh*

Some of our favorite places to get books:

• Barnes and Noble: we purchase the annual membership, and easily save more than that with the books and items we purchase both in store and online. I really, really love using the online site, especially at Christmas when our DD puts together her book wish list.
• Garage Sales: Another fantastic idea is to look for books at garage sales…summer is coming and there are sure to be many sales with books for all ages! I found many books this way for my kids when they were younger. And it was even more fun when the kids found them themselves…it was like they had found a secret treasure LOL
• Libraries: Many school libraries do a turnover once every 2-3 years and will have a book sale. The prices here are super on these books, and there is normally a large variety to chose from.

Don’t forget that books make wonderful gifts as well. No child is too young to have a book — I even give them for Baby Shower Gifts. Hey, Dr Seuss will never be out of style