Books That Bring You Joy (with Liz Lantigua)

Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)

Danielle Bean

Religion & Spirituality, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Danielle Bean interviews Liz Lantigua, the founder of Good News Book Fair, a company that provides curated book fairs for schools. They discuss the importance of screening books for children, the impact of reading on a child's imagination, and ways to make reading fun during the summer. Liz shares her journey from being a news reporter to starting a book fair company and emphasizes the need for wholesome and engaging books for children. She also addresses the misconception of banned books and highlights the responsibility of parents and teachers in selecting appropriate books for children.

Takeaways

Screening books for children is important to ensure they are age-appropriate and align with family values.
Reading helps develop a child's imagination and an have a positive impact on their emotional well-being.
Making reading fun during the summer can help prevent the 'summer slide' and keep children engaged with books.
Good News Book Fair provides curated book fairs for schools, offering a wide selection of wholesome and engaging books for children.
The idea of banned books is a marketing ploy, and it is the responsibility of parents and teachers to select appropriate books for children.

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0:00.0	Girlfriends, Episode number 426. Books that Bring You Joy with Liz Lantigua.
0:05.6	Hello and welcome to Girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom and I'm on a mission to help you.
0:12.0	Know Your Worth is a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy and family living. This week, my special guest is Liz Lantigua, who has a book fair for the rest of us.
0:20.8	Can't wait to share this good news with you. Let's get started. Music is Liz Lantigua, who has a book fair for the rest of us.
0:22.8	Can't wait to share this good news with you.
0:23.8	Let's get started.
0:32.7	Hey, girlfriend, how are you?
0:37.1	So glad you're able to join me here for this special episode of the Girlfriend's Podcast where we're going to
0:38.0	talk with Liz La Antigua about books for your kids, ways we can screen books, the importance of screening
0:43.5	books. But before that, I just want to check in with you and see how your summer's going. We talked a
0:48.5	little bit about setting goals for the summer at the start of the season. And I know that's something that I like to do. But it's important
0:54.4	to have a check-in to. What are some of your goals for this summer season, either personally,
0:59.6	professionally, spiritually, as a family? And how are you doing with them? Because I know for me,
1:04.7	sometimes I can have these great plans for the ways things are going to go. And especially when
1:09.3	the kids were younger, they were all like school age. And it was like, school is out for the summer things are going to go. And especially when the kids were younger, they were all like school age and it was like school is out for the summer kind of mode and all routines would fall
1:16.0	apart. I'd find myself overwhelmed in the summertime. It felt like there were no routines. So that
1:22.3	meant nobody was doing chores except for me. I was like running around trying to keep up with everybody's
1:26.5	meals and messes and laundry and all the
1:28.9	mayhem, but also feeling like this should be fun. We should be having fun every moment and kind of feeling
1:33.5	this stress and the pressure of not getting to all of our summer things. And so one idea I wanted to share
1:38.3	with you before we go to Liz here is having a summer bucket list. And this doesn't mean the really
1:43.2	big things like jumping out of an airplane or whatever might be on your bucket list. And this doesn't mean the really big things like jumping out of an
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