Taking Back Childhood by Nancy Carlsson-Paige

Taking Back Childhood by Nancy Carlsson-Paige

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-Paige's thirty years of researching young children, this groundbreaking book helps parents navigate the cultural currents shaping, and too often harming, kids today--and restore childhood to the best of what it can be. As Carlsson-Paige explains, there are three attributes critical to kids' healthy development: time and space for creative play, a feeling of safety in today's often frightening world, and strong, meaningful relationships with both adults and other children--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 power-sharing 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.

Dr. Carlsson-Paige explains the many ways our culture and media are threatening our children's healthy development. She gives adults concrete strategies for fighting back. Today's parents need this book.--Marian Wright Edelman, Children's Defense Fund

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ISBN 13	9781594630439
ISBN 10	1594630437
Title	Taking Back Childhood
Author	Nancy Carlsson-Paige
Condition	Unavailable
Publisher	Hudson Street Press
Year published	2008-04-01
Number of pages	282
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