Encouraging our daughters to develop a love of reading has thankfully been quite easy for us; developing reading interests beyond "Princess Books" has been the big hurdle. You know the books I'm talking about here - the pink, the frilly, the 'life is sweet' type that sometimes offer a free tiara and the like. At an education conference this month, popular children's author Lauren Child said that "as a child she felt like a sponge, absorbing information from everywhere". Our daughters' preoccupation at a very young age with 'all things princess' left me wondering if they really were absorbing from... Read more →