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Eat Nap Play Review and Giveaway

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If you are a mom or dad that has your fundar on you will love the book Eat, Nap, and Play by Robyn Spizman and Evelyn Sacks. What is fundar? The authors define it as unexpected fun. They challenged the readers of this book to plan fun at times and be ready to enjoy it when it spontaneously comes up. The book is loaded with great ideas for all kinds of fun.

The chapters run the gambit from “Spend More Time and Less Money” to “Mommy I’m (Still!) Bored!” to “Swap, Shop, Barter Share”, and seven more really fun topics. Each has easy to put together activities and or tips.

The chapter on “Spend More Time and Less Money” has several great tips on games to play at the grocery store. I loved the game that asks you to think about what you could buy in this aisle if we had an all dessert menu tonight. The Shoe To Do Box is also a great game and learning tool. All it involves putting together is a box of treasures. Children can select five and make up a play using them, play a memory game, or just enjoy playing with the treasures.
I love the marking time travel tip from the “Mommy I’m (Still!) Bored” chapter of the book. All you have to do is to select animal or character your child loves, print out a coloring page for it, and color in a section of the picture at intervals during the trip. Children see that time is passing and they are getting closer to their destination as the picture is filled in.

The book is filled with ideas like the ones above. This review could go on and on. Eat, Nap, and Plays is an amazing resource. It is one to add to your parenting library. When you buy it or win it, please take a look at the Proud of You Plate. It is really wonderful idea.

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Thanks to Lisa at TLC Book Tours, I have a copy of Eat, Nap, Play to giveaway.

 

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That is 10 ways to win. The winner will be chosen by using the random number generator at http://www.random.org/. )

This giveaway begins April 27th and ends May 6th.

Disclaimer: I was sent a copy of this book to review. The comments in the review are my own.

 

 

 

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Comments

  1. Sounds like a great book! Does bribing count!? We have a nap chart and my daughter gets a frown on it if she acts out at naptime or doesn’t nap! Doesnt always work.

  2. My kids are not big eaters, but they love pancakes and bacon. Sometimes we have breakfast for dinner and they love it.

  7. I read mine his favorite story to help him sleep, it seems to work everytime!
    Great giveaway!
    Thanks!
    baileybobby6(at)hotmail.com

  8. I joined Mom Loop, looks like a nice community of friends! angiee
    baileybobby6@hotmail(dot)com

  9. We have a routine for naptime and bedtime to help the kids. Sometimes I make up songs to make the routine more exciting (like singing about putting toys away or brushing teeth.)

    khmorgan_00 [at] yahoo [dot] com

  13. I don’t have any trouble getting my child to eat or nap, but sometimes I have to prod her to play because she likes the tv a little too much. I get her to play by starting to play with her toys myself and acting like I’m just having soooo much fun without and then she gets really interested and comes over to play with me.
    glass.stephanie(at)gmail(dot)com

  16. My son and my husband have a race to see who can eat whatever my son does not particularly want to eat the fastest… one bite at a time… works on almost everything.

    a_faith_stewart at yahoo dot com

  21. Hi there…just wanted to stop by and say hi. Since my kids are out of this age, if I am picked to win…please give it to ilovepink1078 (above me)! I appreciate your faithful following and I just wanted to tell you that! Have a great day! 🙂

  23. Sounds like a great book! To get my son (2 1/2 years old) to eat better, he helps me cook. He stands at the end of the counter and will basically eat anything I put on his plate as long as he’s “helping”.

  24. we try to make meal time fun by making faces and such out of things the kids don’t care for.

  25. I tell my three year old that he can have a choice 1. nap and story OR 2. nap and no stories.
    Either way, he still has to nap so he chooses to listen to a book and a nap every time!
    winnieayala at yahoo dot com

  26. Thanks for the comment and love your blog! Never seen it before, but see we follow a lot of the same blogs. I LOVE the fact that you write posts about great posts you’ve come across that week! Cool! 🙂 Thanks again, cat (iblogmoore.blogspot.com)

  28. My favorite way to get my kids to play is to put some music on…it always gets them grooving!!

  30. We have fun by going on a spontaneous walk around the neighborhood to pet the doggies and kitties.
    rbjj32825[at]lycos[dot]com

  46. To eat, we pit them against each other–he’s going to beat you! or she had more peas than you did!

    amanda.townsend2 at gmail dot com

  47. I would love to win this book…to get my little one to sleep i got to keep saying ” you are a good girl” in a singsong voice …..

  48. Sometimes children can be very picky eaters so you need to make meal time fun! What we do at our household is create creatures, cars, boats, etc with our food to make it more fun!

    ashleydmoya@hotmail.com

  54. We have a timer that we bought and I let my daughter set the timer to see if she can be done eating by the time it goes off…makes eating fun for her

    tbarrettno1 at gmail dot com

  62. Stick to the same routine for naps…we always sing the same two songs just before laying them down so that they know that is what happens next.
    lil.blessing at gmail dot com

  67. We have a routine for bedtime where first we read a story and then I sing three songs, hum the last one again, and then just rock back and forth. He usually goes right down after that.

    haarde@hotmail.com

  71. I am a grandmother now. I’m not real sure how my daughter-in-law gets our grandsons to eat. One is a great eater while the other is very picky. I remember it was a challenge to get them to eat the right foods for nutrition. Thanks for the wonderful giveaway.

    dianad8008 AT gmail DOT com

  72. i get the kids to nap by getting them tired, we play outside and then take a nap!

  81. I’m sorry I”m so late getting over here to comment, but thank you for this terrific review! We really appreciate you being on this tour. I love that coloring in one section idea for car trips.. very easy, and such a nice visual for kids!

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