It's ok to go up the slide
Subtitle: renegade rules for raising confident and creative kids
By: Heather Shumaker
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9780399172007
Subjects: Confidence in children; Child development; Parent participation; Education; Child rearing; Parenting; Creative ability in children
Other titles: It is ok to go up the slide :; It's okay to go up the slide :; It is okay to go up the slide :; Renegade rules for raising confident and creative kids
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Risk and independence. Safety second ; It's OK not to kiss Grandma ; Model mistakes ; It's OK to talk to strangers; title: Navigating technology. Embrace Amish iPads ; Discipline your phone; title: Children's rights at school. Recess is a right ; Ban elementary homework ; Opt out of harmful homework ; Don't sign here; title: More rights at school. Reconfigure kindergarten ; Banish calendars at circle time ; Don't force participation; title: Sorrow, empathy, and disaster. Don't remove ogres from books ; Deal with news disasters ; Share unfair history; title: Mean words and princess power. Princesses are powerful ; Mean words matter ; Give whiners R-E-S-P-E-C-T; title: Renegade rules in the real world. Families are not entertainment centers ; Relax.