free is good | $3.99 is almost free

Yesterday, nearly a thousand people in the U.S., Great Britain, Spain, Italy and France went to Amazon for a free download of Ten Things We Should Never Say to Kids.

Thanks to my friends who spread the word to their friends. We'll do it again soon.

Meanwhile, Ten Things We Should Never Say to Kids is available at the almost free price of $3.99 U.S.

So, help yourself (and maybe gift a copy for a friend).

Indiana: We Salute You!

Apparently Bill Stanczykiewicz, who directs the Indiana Youth Institute, is hot stuff. His Monday column from Indianapolis is creating a bit of heat here in sleepy Leucadia. Bill was very kind in his assessment of Ten Things We Should Never Say to Kids, which is free, and Raising Adults , which is cheap (but never tawdry).

[You may recognize the image above as coming from today's Gary, Indiana Post-Tribune — How you doing, Gary?]

So, thanks Bill!

Meanwhile, I've been quietly helping Mark Matlock develop Real World Parents to launch in 2009.

And did I mention Rich Van Pelt and I are doing a six-hour extravaganza at Youth Specialties' three National Youth Workers Conventions in Sacramento, Pittsburgh and Nashville this fall? Good times, and I'm not kidding.

Back to Indiana, I'm scheduled to present workshops — on crisis intervention and Ten Things We should Never Say to Kids — at the Indiana Youth Institute's 2008 Kids Count in Indiana Conference
 the first week of December.

Also, I had parents when I was younger, so...if that doesn't make me an expert, I don't know what would.

so it ain't Rolling Stone but still...

Look Ma, I made the papers. Are you proud of me?

book guy on the radio | Kids Count

Did I mention I was on the Kids Count Radio Show in Indianapolis last month? I was — talking mainly about Ten Things We Should Never Say to Kids, which is, for better or worse, free for the downloading. Help yourself and pass along the link.

Funny, people get riled up about the Thing 05 We Should Never Say to Kids: I'm proud of you. Really? Do you think that's an extremely subversive idea about parenting? I wonder if it's (a tiny bit) like the line from from G.K. Chesterton where he said Christianity hasn't been tried and found wanting; it's been found difficult and left untried...

Anyway, the radio program, while probably not my most lucid half hour ever, nonetheless includes a few nice moments. And, like Ten Things We Should Never Say to Kids, it's free.

props | ten things we should never say to kids

A generous review of Ten Things We Should Never Say to Kids from Nicole Avery, The Planning Queen in Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia.

Nicole writes about thoughtful parenting in her Planning with Kids blog (where she uses words like whilst and spells reorganising with an s.

I think the second best thing about Ten Things We Should Never Say to Kids is it's free. The best thing about it is what's inside.

You can download Ten Things We Should Never Say to Kids at thetinycompanycalledme.com

Ten Things We Should Never Say To Kids

UPDATE | 07 July 2008

[A smarter man than me would have refreshed this page some time ago, but that man was not available, so...]

The Tiny Company Called Me released Ten Things We Should Never Say To Kids as a free eBook. You can download it by chapters, no strings attached, right here.

Send chapters to anyone you please (but please don't alter, charge or take credit for them).

For the whole story on Ten Things We Should Never Say To Kids (well, most of it) check out the post called A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Bookstore .

So, read to your hearts content; be generous with your children + friends; and let me know what you think...