The Book of Doing by Allison Arden

The Book of Doing: Everyday Activities to Unlock Your Creativity and Joy by Allison Arden is one book which Monkey boy loved reading and doing. This book is unlike any other book which I had reviewed. It is filled with many different activities and ideas which one can carry out.

He couldn’t put the book down when he got his hands on the book and I had to literally pry it away from him in order to get a look.

Allison Arden had never really intended on writing such a book. After her 40th birthday she decided that she needed to do something to get back the passion in her life. It can be said that she had an “aha moment in her life” and decided to start living life rather then just going through the motions.

From that day onwards she started doing activities which she did incorporating her love for arts and crafts. She experience immense joy and freedom in her new found approach to living and this let her to write the fully illustrated and designed THE BOOK OF DOING.

There are 94 fun activities such as Draw yourself as a cartoon character and filling out my wish for the year 2012 which Monkey boy really enjoyed doing. You just have to flip the pages and I’m certain that you will find activities which appeal to you.

My thoughts on the book.

Monkey boy and I really enjoy doing some of the activities listed in the book and this book certainly does help give us ideas on how to engage in interesting task throughout the summer vacations. It is a great book if you are looking for some inspiration to spark off the passion inside you. I like the idea that it makes you think outside the box and encourages curiosity and creativity.

If you are interested to own a copy of this book you can purchase this book on Amazon

Disclaimer: I was given a copy of The Book of Doing: Everyday Activities to Unlock Your Creativity and Joy for review purposes. All opinions are 100% my own. This post has a compensation level of 3. For more information visit our Disclosure Policy

June 14, 2012

Writer’s Workshop: Darling Daddy

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R and the kids

Being a dad has been one of R’s roles since 9 years ago. It has been a learning journey for him being a father. He has been growing and learning more about fatherhood and has become more experienced through the years. Being steadily promoted from a father of one to now a father of three he has been actively engaging with the caring of the kids.

He handles the cleaning/ bathing of the kids since they were newborns and still does bath and feed Tiger girl when I’m engaged with her older brothers. I guess that practice makes perfect and with experience comes ease in handling of the kids physical needs.

He is the more relax parent compared to me. Maybe it’s because he gets more of the fun jobs of playing with the kids and bringing them out for fun instead on focusing on academics and discipline. Even though he and me don’t see eye to eye on certain issues regarding the kids we both agree that we need to co-ordinate our efforts in educating them.

I have learned from him not to be so uptight with the boys when they really drive me up the wall.He is really patient with the kids and has a really high tolerance to all their monkey antics. He will reason out with them before delivering any punishments if it is deemed necessary.

Tolerance is a virtue which I have cultivate throughout the years under his guidance. Although at times I still do snap at the kids when they drive me mad but it hasn’t been as often as before.

I guess that we do learn a lot from our spouse about how to improve on our parenting skills.