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Parenting & play

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Magical Parent Magical Child: The Art of Joyful Parenting

This parenting guide presents seven principles for guiding and teaching children in today’s turbulent learning environment. It replaces traditional adult-child formulas, rewards, and punishments with playful interaction, creative intelligence, and insight.

Michael Mendizza, Joseph Chilton Pearce

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The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness: Five Steps to Help Kids Create and Sustain Lifelong Joy

Here, at last, is a book brimming with the good news of raising children—the basic reassuring news about happiness and unconditional love, about enduring family connections and kids who grow up right. Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.

Edward M. Hallowell

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Thriving with Autism: 90 Activities to Encourage Your Child’s Communication, Engagement, and Play

Help children with autism strengthen their connections―supportive strategies for ages 1 to 11 To guide your efforts to help your child flourish, this book has 90 playful, evidence-based activities.

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The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun: Activities for Kids with Sensory Processing Disorder (Revised Edition)

The first accessible guide to examine Sensory Processing Disorder, The Out-of-Sync Child touched the hearts and lives of thousands of families.

Carol Stock Kranowitz

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The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids

What makes Denmark the happiest country in the world—and how do Danish parents raise happy, confident, successful kids, year after year? This upbeat and practical book presents six essential principles, which spell out P-A-R-E-N-T: • Play is essential for development and well-being.

Jessica Joelle Alexander, Iben Sandahl

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Pretend Play Is Boring! How to Set Boundaries with Your Child Around Play (2020)

Listen, if you hate pretend play, then please know you’re not alone. This is probably the number one concern I hear from parents when it comes to play. In this video, I share some things to consider if you’re in this boat as well as practical tips on setting boundaries when it comes to play.

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Magical Child

Magical Child, a classic work, profoundly questioned the current thinking on childbirth practices, parenting, and educating our children. Now its daring ideas about how Western society is damaging our children, and how we can better nurture them and ourselves, ring truer than ever.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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There’s No Such Thing as Bad Weather: A Scandinavian Mom’s Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids (from Friluftsliv to Hygge)

Could the Scandinavian philosophy of “There’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes” hold the key to happier, healthier lives for American children? When Swedish-born Linda Åkeson McGurk moved to Indiana, she quickly learned that the nature-centric parenting philosophies of her...

Linda Åkeson McGurk

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Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

When award-winning journalist Brigid Schulte, a harried mother of two, realized she was living a life of all work and no play, she decided to find out why she felt so overwhelmed.

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Can We Play?

Play is essential to positive human development, but kids are playing less and less, says psychologist David Elkind. What can we do to build a new culture of play?

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