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Playful Learning: Develop Your Child's Sense of Joy and Wonder

10 best books like Playful Learning: Develop Your Child's Sense of Joy and Wonder (Mariah Bruehl): Project-Based Homeschooling: Mentoring Self-Directed Learners, Free Range Learning How Homeschooling Changes Everything, How To Raise An Amazing Child the Montessori Way, Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School, Teach Me to Do It Myself: Montessori Activities for You and Your Child, Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs, The Case For Make Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World, Sharing Nature with Children: The Classic Parents' & Teachers' Nature Awareness Guidebook, The Creative Family: How to Encourage Imagination and Nurture Family Connections, I Love Dirt!: 52 Activities to Help You and Your Kids Discover the Wonders of Nature

Project-Based Homeschooling: Mentoring Self-Directed Learners
AuthorLori McWilliam Pickert
ISBN1475239068
Project-based homeschooling combines children’s interests with long-term, deep, complex learning. This is an essential experience for children: to spend time working on something that matters to them, with the support of a dedicated mentor. This book is an introduction and guide to creating...
Free Range Learning How Homeschooling Changes Everything
AuthorLaura Grace Weldon
Free Range Learning presents eye-opening data about the meaning and importance of natural learning. This data-from neurologists, child development specialists, anthropologists, educators, historians and business innovators-turns many current assumptions about school-based education...
How To Raise An Amazing Child the Montessori Way
AuthorTim Seldin
A parent's guide to building independence, creativity, and confidence in their children using Montessori learning techniques, written by Montessori president Tim Seldin.

An international bestseller, How to Raise an Amazing Child the Montessori Way adapts Montessori teachings for...
Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School
AuthorGrace Llewellyn
ISBN0471349607
GUERRILLA LEARNING IS CREATING A HOME ENVIRONMENT THAT FILLS YOUR CHILD WITH THE JOY OF LEARNING

Let your daughter read her library books instead of finishing her homework . Ask your eleven-year-old's beloved third grade teacher to comment on his poetry. Invite a massage therapist to dinner...
Teach Me to Do It Myself: Montessori Activities for You and Your Child
AuthorMaja Pitamic
ISBN0764127896
Based on the key Montessori principle that children learn best through active experience, Teach Me to Do It Myself presents simple activities through which children explore and develop their skills. These skill areas include sensory perceptions, body coordination, language, understanding of...
Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs
AuthorEllen Galinsky
“Ellen Galinsky—already the go-to person on interaction between families and the workplace—draws on fresh research to explain what we ought to be teaching our children. This is must-reading for everyone who cares about America’s fate in the 21st century.”
— Judy Woodruff, Senior...
The Case For Make Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World
AuthorSusan Linn
ISBN1565849701
In The Case for Make Believe, Harvard child psychologist Susan Linn tells the alarming story of childhood under siege in a commercialized and technology-saturated world. Although play is essential to human development and children are born with an innate capacity for make believe, Linn argues that,...
Sharing Nature with Children: The Classic Parents' & Teachers' Nature Awareness Guidebook
AuthorJoseph Bharat Cornell
ISBN1883220734
When Joseph Cornell's classic book reached its 20th anniversary, Cornell drew upon a wealth of experience in nature education to significantly revise and expand his book. New nature games--favorites from the field--and Cornell's typically insightful commentary make the second edition of this...
The Creative Family: How to Encourage Imagination and Nurture Family Connections
AuthorAmanda Blake Soule
ISBN1590304713
When you learn to awaken your family’s creativity, wonderful things will happen: you’ll make meaningful connections with your children in large and small ways; your children will more often engage in their own creative discoveries; and your family will embrace new ways to relax, play, and grow...
I Love Dirt!: 52 Activities to Help You and Your Kids Discover the Wonders of Nature
AuthorJennifer Ward
ISBN1590305353
I Love Dirt! presents 52 open-ended activities to help you engage your child in the outdoors. No matter what your location—from a small patch of green in the city to the wide-open meadows of the country—each activity is meant to promote exploration, stimulate imagination, and heighten a child's...
Calm and Compassionate Children: A Handbook
AuthorSusan Usha Dermond
ISBN1587612763
Building on such inherent qualities as openheartedness and trust, parents and teachers can help children develop empathy and integrity as they grow and mature. From nature activities to conscious quiet time to tips on daily routines, CALM AND COMPASSIONATE CHILDREN provides practical guidance...
Heaven on Earth: A Handbook for Parents of Young Children
AuthorSharifa Oppenheimer
ISBN0880105666
As we see a shift of old forms that were once the foundations of our daily lives, parents--who must prepare the next generation to meet the changing world--have more questions today than ever before. Although our cultural values and family structures may change, it is the atmosphere in the home that...
Respectful Parents, Respectful Kids: 7 Keys to Turn Family Conflict into Cooperation
AuthorSura Hart
ISBN1892005220
More than a tool to correct bad behavior, this handbook urges parents to move beyond typical discipline techniques by creating an environment based on mutual respect, emotional safety, and positive, open communication. The seven outlined principles redefine the parent-dominated family by...
What to Read When: The Books and Stories to Read with Your Child--and All the Best Times to Read Them
AuthorPam Allyn
ISBN1583333347
Read Pam Allyn's posts on the Penguin Blog

The books to read aloud to children at the important moments in their lives.

In What to Read When, award-winning educator Pam Allyn celebrates the power of reading aloud with children. In many ways, books provide the first opportunity for...
Fun on the Run
AuthorCynthia L. Copeland
ISBN0761134484
There are many game ideas in here, some are variation of common games like Simmon says, and some other ones I never thought about. Towards the end it also has a shorter chapter on games to play with babies. Reading through feels warm, because i have played some of these games as a child before. I think this...
Smart Parenting for Smart Kids: Nurturing Your Child's True Potential
AuthorEileen Kennedy-Moore
ISBN0470640057
Practical, research-based parenting tips to help children develop essential social-emotional skills. Chapters include: Tempering Perfectionism, Building Connection, Developing Motivation, Finding Joy.
A literal Godsend. Parents will find great wisdom in its pages.
– Stephen...
Show Me a Story: 40 Craft Projects and Activities to Spark Children's Storytelling
AuthorEmily K. Neuburger
ISBN1603429883
Encouraging children to let their imagination run wild, Emily K. Neuburger offers 40 inventive projects and activities that will inspire kids ages 5 to 12 to express themselves through storytelling. Younger children will love making story stones and a storytelling jar, while older kids will open...
Fifteen Minutes Outside: 365 Ways to Get Out of the House and Connect with Your Kids
AuthorRebecca P. Cohen
ISBN1402254369
"Every family will LOVE getting outside every day with the fun & easy tips in this book!" -- Whitney Ferre, author of 33 Things to Know About Raising Creative Kids

In just 15 minutes your kids can be unplugged from their screens and outside on an adventure, all thanks to the ultimate parenting...
The Write Start: A Guide to Nurturing Writing at Every Stage, from Scribbling to Forming Letters and Writing Stories
AuthorJennifer Hallissy
ISBN1590308379
How do you raise children who love to write? Jennifer Hallissy believes that if you give children a solid foundation of writing basics, they will develop a love of writing that lasts a lifetime. In this book, she shares the secrets for supporting young writers, from the smallest of scribblers to middle-schoolers...
The Artful Parent: Simple Ways to Fill Your Family's Life with Art and Creativity--Includes over 60 Art Projects for Children Ages 1 to 8
AuthorJean Van't Hul
ISBN1590309642

Bring out your children’s creativity and imagination with more than 60 kids' art activities from the creator of www.ArtfulParent.com. 

Art making is a wonderfully fun way for young children to tap into their imagination, deepen their creativity, and explore new materials, all...
First Art: Art Experiences for Toddlers and Twos
AuthorMaryAnn F. Kohl
ISBN0876592221
Jump right in—doing art with toddlers and twos is fun, rewarding, and a wonderful learning experience. Children discover their world as they explore the 75 fun-filled art adventures in First Art. They will joyfully squeeze a rainbow, make their own (safe) beads to string, and create their very own...
Different Learners: Identifying, Preventing, and Treating Your Child's Learning Problems
AuthorJane M. Healy
ISBN1439170207
"My child is having trouble in school. What should I do?" When parents are told that their child is having difficulty in school, they often don’t know where to turn for reliable information and advice. They may be confused by conflicting claims of "cures" or may mistakenly think that, because some...
Einstein Never Used Flashcards: How Our Children Really Learn--and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less
AuthorKathy Hirsh-Pasek
ISBN1594860688
Now Available in Paperback!

In Einstein Never Used Flashcards highly credentialed child psychologists, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Ph.D., and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Ph.D., with Diane Eyer, Ph.D., offer a compelling indictment of the growing trend toward accelerated learning. It's a message...
Tinkerlab: A Hands-On Guide for Little Inventors
AuthorRachelle Doorley
55 playful experiments that encourage tinkering, curiosity, and creative thinking from the creator of Tinkerlab.com—hands-on activities that explore art, science, and more.  For children two and up.

Kids are natural tinkerers. They experiment, explore, test, and play, and they...
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