Taking Back Childhood: A Proven Roadmap for Raising Confident,

Taking Back Childhood: A Proven Roadmap for Raising Confident, Creative, Compassionate Kids

An early childhood development expert shows how to craft a nurturing childhood for your sons and daughters, while minimizing negative societal influences.

Based on early-childhood development expert Nancy Carlsson-Paigeâ€™s thirty years of researching young children, this groundbreaking book helps parents navigate the cultural currents shaping, and too often harming, kids todayâ€”and restore childhood to the best of what it can be. As Carlsson-Paige explains, there are three attributes critical to kidsâ€™ healthy development: time and space for creative play, a feeling of safety in todayâ€™s often frightening world, and strong, meaningful relationships with both adults and other childrenâ€”attributes that we, as a society, are failing to protect and nurture. From advising parents on which toys foster creativity (and which stifle it) to guiding them in how to use â€œpower-sharingâ€ techniques to resolve conflicts and generate empathy, Carlsson-Paige offers hands-on steps parents can take to create a safe, open, and imaginative environment in which kids can relish childhood and flourish as human beings.

â€œDr. Carlsson-Paige explains the many ways our culture and media are threatening our childrenâ€™s healthy development. She gives adults concrete strategies for fighting back. Todayâ€™s parents need this book.â€â€”Marian Wright Edelman, Childrenâ€™s Defense Fund
Country USA
Brand Plume
Manufacturer Plume
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780452290099
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2009-02-24
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780452290099

Country	USA
Brand	Plume
Manufacturer	Plume
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780452290099
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2009-02-24
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780452290099

Taking Back Childhood: A Proven Roadmap for Raising Confident, Creative, Compassionate Kids