Picture-books and child rearing
Difficult conversations are an inevitable part of child rearing. While I often turn to parenting books and websites to guide me through some of life's thornier moments, more often than not, it's been a picture-book that has come to my rescue. When our beloved family dog, Zev, died last fall, it was Judith Viorst's The Tenth Good Thing About Barney that gave me words when I had none. When my older daughter began to as…