It's Ok to Go Up the Slide by Heather Shumaker

It's Ok to Go Up the Slide by Heather Shumaker

When it comes to parenting, sometimes you have to trust your gut.

With her first book, It's OK Not to Share, Heather Shumaker overturned all the conventional rules of parenting with her "renegade rules" for raising competent and compassionate kids. In It's Ok To Go Up the Slide, Shumaker takes on new hot-button issues with renegade rules such as:
 
- Recess Is A Right
- It's Ok Not To Kiss Grandma
- Ban Homework in Elementary School
- Safety Second
- Don't Force Participation
 
Shumaker also offers broader guidance on how parents can control their own fears and move from an overscheduled life to one of more free play. Parenting can too often be reduced to shuttling kids between enrichment classes, but Shumaker challenges parents to reevaluate how they're spending their precious family time. This book helps parents help their kids develop important life skills in an age-appropriate way. Most important, parents must model these skills, whether it's technology use, confronting conflict, or coping emotionally with setbacks. Sometimes being a good parent means breaking all the rules.

Heather Shumaker is a freelance journalist whose work has featured in publications such as Parents, Pregnancy, Organic Gardening, and others. She is a regular lecturer on parenting subjects and an advocate for unstructured play in homes and schools. She has a specific affinity for organizations, having worked for The Nature Conservancy, Audubon Society, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, and many others before turning to writing full-time. She has a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Institute for Environmental Studies and a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College. Heather lives with her husband, three chickens, and two children in northern Michigan.

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ISBN 13	9780399172007
ISBN 10	0399172009
Title	It's Ok to Go Up the Slide
Author	Heather Shumaker
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2016-03-08
Number of pages	384
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.