Rectangular Packages With Ribbons
Once they unwrap these, they'll put them on the coffee table or in the WC, and then they'll hug you!
By Sam Hurwitt, Fri., Dec. 13, 2002
Roll Over, Spock, & Tell T. Berry the News
If you're looking for child-rearing tips, a television personality probably isn't the first person to whom you should turn. But in addition to being TV's most reliable slow-change artist, Fred Rogers knows something about communicating with kids. More to the point, he's a really sweet guy, and if you've wondered how a really sweet person would go about raising children, he's prepared to let you in on the secret. The Mister Rogers' Parenting Book (Running Press, $12.95 paper) is a slim volume, written in prose so simple that a child could understand it, and it's less a how-to guide than a collection of hints to help you understand where your child is coming from when it comes to bedtime, potty-training, new siblings, learning, fears, and rebellion. It doesn't have all the answers (no book does), but its neighborly advice can help you start asking the right questions.
