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The Case For Make Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World

10 best books like The Case For Make Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World (Susan Linn): Teach Me to Do It Myself: Montessori Activities for You and Your Child, Playful Learning: Develop Your Child's Sense of Joy and Wonder, 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, Creative Play for Your Toddler: Steiner Waldorf Expertise and Toy Projects for 2 - 4s, Heaven on Earth: A Handbook for Parents of Young Children, Too Much of a Good Thing: Raising Children of Character in an Indulgent Age, Power of Play: How Spontaneous, Imaginative Activities Lead to Happier, Healthier Children, Redefining Girly: How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, from Birth to Tween

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...
Playful Learning: Develop Your Child's Sense of Joy and Wonder
AuthorMariah Bruehl
ISBN1590308190
Children are natural scientists, artists, mathematicians, authors, and scholars. From the time they are born they seek out information about the world around them in an effort to construct meaning and further their development. While children have an inherent drive to make sense of their reality,...
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...
Creative Play for Your Toddler: Steiner Waldorf Expertise and Toy Projects for 2 - 4s
AuthorChristopher Clouder
ISBN1856752860
Give your kids more than a diet of television and plastic toys with this inspiring course. Following hot on the heels of the hugely popular Creative Play for your Baby, this is the ideal resource for modern parents who want their children to expand their creativity and imagination through play. Discover...
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...
Too Much of a Good Thing: Raising Children of Character in an Indulgent Age
AuthorDan Kindlon
ISBN0786886242
This book reminds parents the real cost of living in an age of affluence . . . potential damage to your child's character. Though money can provide health care, enriching experiences and vacations, money can not buy character and can lead to "luxury fever". Kids that have too much often begin to feel entitled...
Power of Play: How Spontaneous, Imaginative Activities Lead to Happier, Healthier Children
AuthorDavid Elkind
ISBN0738210536
In modern childhood, free, unstructured play time is being replaced more and more by academics, lessons, competitive sports, and passive, electronic entertainment. While parents may worry that their children will be at a disadvantage if they are not engaged in constant, explicit learning or using...
Redefining Girly: How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, from Birth to Tween
AuthorMelissa Atkins Wardy
ISBN1613745524
Named one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2014
 All-pink aisles in toy stores, popular dolls that resemble pole dancers, ultra sexy Halloween costumes in tween sizes. Many parents are increasingly dismayed at how today’s media, marketers, and manufacturers are sexualizing and stereotyping...
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...
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...
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...
The Self-Esteem Trap: Raising Confident and Compassionate Kids in an Age of Self-Importance
AuthorPolly Young-Eisendrath
ISBN0316013110
I picked this book up because I was attracted to the subtitle: "Raising Confident and Compassionate Kids in an Age of Self-Importance." As a tail-end babyboomer who grew up during the 70s in California I technically don't fit the demo as far as the generations encompassed in "GenMe" as the author calls...
A Child's Work: The Importance of Fantasy Play
AuthorVivian Gussin Paley
ISBN0226644898
The buzz word in education today is accountability. But the federal mandate of "no child left behind" has come to mean curriculums driven by preparation for standardized tests and quantifiable learning results. Even for very young children, unstructured creative time in the classroom is waning...
Taking Back Childhood: Helping Your Kids Thrive in a Fast-Paced, Media-Saturated, Violence-Filled World
AuthorNancy Carlsson-Paige
ISBN1594630437
An innovative road map to help parents bring creative play, quality relationships, and a sense of confidence and personal safety back into their kids’ lives

One only need turn on the TV, stroll the aisles of any toy store, or visit any American elementary school to witness the formidable...
The Opposite of Worry: The Playful Parenting Approach to Childhood Anxieties and Fears
AuthorLawrence J. Cohen
ISBN0345539338
“The most helpful book on childhood anxiety I have ever read.”—Michael Thompson, Ph.D.
 
Whether it’s the monster in the closet or the fear that arises from new social situations, school, or sports, anxiety can be especially challenging and maddening for children. And since anxiety...
The Milk Memos: How Real Moms Learned to Mix Business with Babies-and How You Can, Too
AuthorCate Colburn-Smith
ISBN1585425443
This one-of-a-kind guide to balancing motherhood and work is based on actual journals kept by a group of IBM women during their visits to the company's employee lactation room.

It all began when IBM manager Cate Colburn-Smith sat down in the company's employee lactation room, shed a few silent...
Buy, Buy Baby: How Consumer Culture Manipulates Parents and Harms Young Minds
AuthorSusan Gregory Thomas
ISBN0618463518
An investigative journalist examines how marketers exploit infants and toddlers and the broad, often shocking impact of that exploitation on our society

It’s no secret that toy and media corporations manipulate the insecurities of parents to move their products, but Buy, Buy Baby unveils...
The Art of Roughhousing: Good Old-Fashioned Horseplay and Why Every Kid Needs It
AuthorAnthony T. DeBenedet
ISBN1594744874
Everywhere you look, physical play--what some might call "roughhousing"--is being marginalized. Gym classes are getting shorter. Recess periods are being eliminated. Some new schools don't even have playgrounds. Is it any wonder children retreat to "virtual horseplay" via video games?

But...
Beyond Ecophobia: Reclaiming the Heart in Nature Education (Nature Literacy Series, Vol. 1) (Nature Literacy)
AuthorDavid Sobel
ISBN0913098507
This is really more of an essay than a book (only 36 pages) but important nonetheless as it explores environmental education for children, connecting different types of activities to different ages. The basic message of the book is to not overburden very young children with the problems of the world...
Freeing Your Child from Negative Thinking: Powerful, Practical Strategies to Build a Lifetime of Resilience, Flexibility, and Happiness
AuthorTamar E. Chansky
ISBN0738211850
A leading clinical expert in the fields of child cognitive behavior therapy and anxiety disorders, Dr. Tamar Chansky frequently counsels children (and their parents) whose negative thinking creates chronic or occasional emotional hurdles and impedes optimism, flexibility, and happiness. Now,...
Tools of the Mind: The Vygotskian Approach to Early Childhood Education
AuthorElena Bodrova
ISBN0130278041
As the only text of its kind, this book provides in-depth information about Vygotsky's theories, neo-Vygotskians' findings, and concrete explanations and strategies that instruct teachers how to influence student learning and development. Key changes to this edition include a new chapter on...
Growing Up Brave: Expert Strategies for Helping Your Child Overcome Fear, Stress, and Anxiety
AuthorDonna B. Pincus
ISBN0316125601
When our children are born, we do everything we can to make sure they have love, food, clothing, and shelter. We read to them, play with them, and comfort them when they cry. But despite all this, one in five children today suffers from a diagnosed anxiety disorder, and countless others suffer from anxiety...
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