Recommended reading material ..

We've been reading a few good books that some of you might be interested in with regard to children and behavior that are definitely a must read. The books are:

• Your Two-Year-Old: Terrible or Tender - Our friend Smita recommended this series just before we left. They do explain quite a bit of what your kid goes through and we think we have a slightly better understanding of them and their behavior at times.
• Your Three-Year-Old: Friend or Enemy - It just amazes me that the book can tell you exactly what your child is going through and why, and how similar all children are across countries / cultures etc ...
  
• Tartine - the cookbook from the famous San Francisco bakery. Mari has been baking quite a few yummy treats from this book. Tonite its time for the date tea cake :)
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond. Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished, Collapse uses the same factors to examine why ancient societies, including the Anasazi of the American Southwest and the Viking colonies of Greenland, as well as modern ones such as Rwanda, have fallen apart. (taken from Amazon.com)