Book Description
Best-selling author and distinguished professor, David Elkind provides parents with an understanding of and appreciation for the powerful role of "play" in healthy emotional and academic development
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 the latest "educational" games, David Elkind's The Power of Play reassures us that unscheduled imaginative play goes far in preparing children for academic and social success. Through expert analysis of the research and powerful situational examples, Elkind shows that, indeed, creative spontaneous activity best sets the stage for academic learning in the first place: Children learn mutual respect and cooperation through role-playing and the negotiation of rules, which in turn prepare them for successful classroom learning; in simply playing with rocks, for example, a child could discover properties of counting and shapes that are the underpinnings of math; even a toddler's babbling is a necessary precursor to the acquisition of language.
An important contribution to the literature about how children learn, The Power of Play suggests ways to restore play's respected place in children's lives, at home, at school, and in the larger community. In defense of unstructured "down time," it encourages parents to trust their instincts and resist the promise of the wide and dubious array of educational products on the market geared to youngsters.
Customer Reviews:
Good start..textbook finish.......2007-07-05
I couldn't agree more with Elkind that play is important. As a parent myself I hear others concerned that their children aren't getting enough "education," even at tiny toddler ages. Many parents get stressed and competative over academic issues before their children are even school age. And, if you are a parent who does not enroll your children in this and that, you are looked at as neglectful...or unconcerned about your children's futures. A current concern I have is the push for all day kindergarten (not mentioned in this book) but I fear it will overtake our half day programs here in MN in just a few years. While these programs may benefit some children, they are certainly not beneficial to all, and I'd even argue they are not beneficial to the majority of children.
The problem I had with Elkind's book is not the message, but rather the delivery of the message. While the first 4 chapters were enjoyble, the rest of the book reminded me of a college textbook. I didn't really enjoy reading it and most of it was repetative as I went to college for el. ed. and took several ed. psych. courses. Now, if you have not heard all these things before, you may be more interested in this book. Personally, as a parent, I found John Rosemond's A Family of Value (read chapters on toys) to be a much more interesting in presentation. Be prepared, however, with Rosemond because he is much more strongly opposed to screen time than Elkind appears to be. Regardless, both books relay a valuable message.
Interesting book...........2007-05-09
I enjoyed this book very much and found it refreshing compared to a lot of the alternatives on the shelves...but, if you are an outdoorsy, no TV, stay at home and look after your child, play, kind of person, I didn't gain a lot from it!
Not the book this important topic deserves.......2007-04-11
I firmly believe in the importance of free play. Essentially, I was looking for a book that would reinforce that belief. Instead, I found myself annoyed by the poor reasoning this book employs. In brief, the author seems to argue that things are different from the way he played as a boy and, therefore, they are worse. Different=worse is not a logical or valid argument.
For example, choosing teams the way they did when he was a boy and was always the last boy chosen made him feel ostracized. But it also prepared him for the real world. Electronic games deprive children of this sense of ostracization. Hmmm... I'm no fan of computer games for young children, but at this point in the book I'm feeling an urge to go out and buy some software for my little ones!
Aaahhh, the good old days when children were allowed to build campfires without supervision! So what if they got burned occasionally? It taught them to handle risk! The idea that there might be other forms of play that teach risk in a more constructive way is not addressed, and I wish it had been.
His argument is needlessly complicated. For example, he discusses the idea of hot and cool media, which is a powerful theoretical construct and which could have been very helpful in this book. (Hot media encourages passivity; cool media engages the child's thought and emotions). But his supporting examples entirely miss the mark. For example, he discusses a study which compared children who watched hot media (e.g., action shows) with those who watched cool media (i.e., educational shows) and found that those who watched hot media were less educationally gifted later on. Therefore, hot media is bad, and cool media is good. Ummmm... Did it never occur to him that maybe the children's educational achievements were related to the educational content they viewed and might have had nothing to do with the warmth of the media? That seems a far simpler and more parsimonious interpretation.
I expected a better quality of reasoning and more depth in this book. The only reason I'm not giving it one star is that it doesn't seem to be actively injurious. Unless, of course, some parent is swayed to let the children build a bonfire unsupervised after reading it...
Possibilities of Play.......2007-03-15
Elkind is my kind of guy. In this book he talks about balance, balance, balance. His book addresses play in children infancy thru the elementary years, for the most part. He talks about what play does exactly for children's intellect, social skills and imagination. I would suggest this book to parents of kids ages 0-7. Educators and the late elemantary set will get something from this book, but not as much as folks parenting and working with younger children.
What I have enjoyed so much about this book is that he is not extreme in his ideas. He endorses tv and video games mildly, and then leads parents into selecting the right kind of show or game. He talks about the pros and cons of these entertainment modes.
He talks about the balance of planned sports/activities, and free, individually motivated play. He offers some guidelines in this area.
He addresses his ideas developmentally, and explains each developmental stage. He will talk about kids in the "concrete operational stage" which usually happens around the age of 6, but sometimes sooner, sometimes later.
I think the American Public cannot read enough about the importance of play for children of all ages.In an age where recess is being eliminated from schools in order to raise test scores, we need work like Elkind's to remind us of the importance of not overscheduling our children.
This read, where I enjoyed it, isn't my favorite book. But I like the info within, I like how it is organized, and believe whole-heartedly in the point that David Elkind is making. It is an intelligent book, and doesn't "dummy-down" to the parent. I learned quite a bit, and as a mother and and educator appreciated that most of all.
The Most Important Thing in Your Life.......2007-02-17
The essense of this book can be stated pretty quickly.
Turn off the television.
Play games with the kid.
Encourage her to play with other kids.
Don't schedule every evening.
Carefully select toys/gifts.
Now all you have to do is understand each of these points and put them into practice.
Perhaps few points should leave you with a few questions like:
what kind of games to play?
What kinds of gifts/toys?
But I'm scheduling educational things?
Of course, reading this book will explain all these points and more. This book comes right after a major report on the importance of play by the American Academy of Pediatrics. It reflects on and expands the report to give specific suggestions, and explains why those suggestions are so important.
And I'm going to add one more of my own. Spend every moment you can with them. We have them for such a short time before they are gone off to live their own lives.
Book Description
More than 65 delightful games and activities to jump-start your baby's amazing brainpower
Can simply singing a song or blowing a dandelion under a toddler's nose help her mind to blossom? Can your baby count, remember events, and solve problems even before he can talk? The exciting answer to both questions is yes!
Breakthrough research is revealing the extraordinary inborn abilities of infants.
It is also showing how experiences during the first years of life profoundly
influence intelligence, creativity, language development-and even later
reading and math skills.
Now two psychologists and child development experts-authors of the bestselling Baby Signs-have created a delightful guide for parents based on the most up-to-date knowledge of how babies discover the world. You'll learn how to:
_ Create a homemade mobile to stimulate your three-month-old's delight in solving problems
_ Play a patty-cake game to help your two-year-old
make logical connections
_ Initiate bedtime conversations that build your child's memory and sense of personal history
_ Develop "Baby Signs" to help your toddler communicate before he or she can talk
_ Stimulate your child's natural number skills with puppets and counting games
_ Use nursery rhymes and special read-aloud techniques to foster reading readiness
_ Nurture budding creativity with humor and fantasy play
_ And much more!
Baby Minds is not another program for creating "super babies." Instead it
builds on activities that babies instinctively love to develop their unique abilities and make your daily interactions full of the joy of discovery-for both of you.
Customer Reviews:
Fabulous book - every parent should have!.......2007-08-01
I read this book and then bought a copy so I could keep it as a reference. Full of fascinating information about baby development that every parent should know -- I was surprised to learn just how advanced babies' minds are as soon as they are born, how they are much more aware of the world around them than previously thought. This book has many ideas of how to capitalize on your baby's brain development as s/he grows. Simple and fun games to play and ways to interact with your child. I love this book and have used many of the ideas already with my 8-month-old daughter.
Focusing Mr. Live Wire.......2007-05-13
Our first and only grandchild has the typical inquisitive mind of a toddler. This book helps us to offer additional play that will encourage the mind. It is the small things that have influenced him the most.
Great info on baby's brains!.......2007-03-28
Sort of a review of "Early Childhood Development" courses. With reference to Skinner and Vygotsky's work. Very interesting and a fast, easy read.
Interesting but wordy.......2006-11-04
This is an interesting book and it goes into detail about little minds, but some of it may be too technical for parents who just want to learn the games and not why or how they stimulate. Some parents might not have time to read all the background info and would like to just get down to the fun part, which is a little bit difficult with this book. Still, if you have the time to devote to this book, it really is interesting and enlightening and may encourage you to try to develop even more games to stimulate your child's growing mind which is certainly a good thing!
prefer Perlmutter's Raise a Smarter Child by Kindergarten.......2006-10-24
If you are looking for more activities / games to play with your child, there are over 30 in chapter 3 of David Perlmutter's book, Raise A Smarter Child by Kindergarten.
Book Description
Now Available in Paperback!In this book two highly credentialed child psychologists offer a compelling indictment of the growing trend toward accelerated learning. It's a message that stressed-out parents are craving to hear: Letting tots learn through play is not only okay-it's better than drilling academics!Drawing on overwhelming scientific evidence from their own studies and the collective research results of child development experts, and addressing the key areas of development-math, reading, verbal communication, science, self-awareness, and social skills-the authors explain the process of learning from a child's point of view. They then offer parents 40 age-appropriate games for creative play. These simple, fun--yet powerful exercises work as well or better than expensive high-tech gadgets to teach a child what his ever-active, playful mind is craving to learn.
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Absolute must-read to understand how children learn.......2007-10-13
If you wish to better understand how children learn to use language and number and how the learning process works in children in general, this book provides priceless answers. It has saved my family much money, which might have been wasted on "child learning tools" promoted by marketing slogans and not substantiated by research. I also heartily recommend Magic Years by Selma H. Fraiberg and Betweeen Parent and Child by Haim G Ginott.
Sucked.......2007-09-12
I love the "gentle revolution" books and thought that I would get an opposing opinion from this book. The "GV" books tell you numerous times that all of the flash cards and other activities must be fun for the babies, else don't do them. Anyone who reads this book should also read some of the "GV" books to get another opinion. Good luck,
Beyond Excellent. You won't panic while reading this book!.......2007-08-06
You know how it goes. You hear another mommy in the playgroup or a mutual friend talk about how they are teaching their one-year-old to read or how their toddler just got in to the spanish immersion pre-school and you feel that twinge of guilty panic, wondering if you're doing what is right to make your child as smart as possible. This book is INCREDIBLE and will calm you down and help you realize what is truly important: children do not learn from boring drill-and-kill experiences. They learn from play and enjoyable reading.
My favorite quote from this book is "Put away your credit card and get out your library card". That is the theme of the whole book. The authors explian why most expensive "educational" toys MAKE your children play with them a certain way and don't allow for creativity so they should not be the only toys your child has. (You can have them! They simply suggest you also have creative toys like dolls, blocks, dress up, kitchen & tool sets or Legos.) They go on to explain that access to toys like these encourage unstructured, imaginative play that help children learn about numbers, physics, geometry, the world and their feelings.
This book tackles our most pressing questions, like how we will teach our children to read before pre-school and how we will teach them the concept of number symbols standing for actual quantities of items. Moreso, they explain to parents exactly how children learn and that parents are not the sole architects of the perfect baby brain. Mother nature has already created a brain that loves to learn and drilling children with flash cards or worksheets can kill a love for learning that is naturally there.
As you can tell from the title of the book, flash cards and demanding, there's-only-one-right-answer educational toys are a fairly new trend but geniuses have always existed. Most intelligent people in the past were allowed to play and leisure read freely - and experiment with things around them - which contributed to their intelligence the most. Parents reading to children and free play are a must! (By the way, I have a psychology degree and I learned in college that children under 1 cannot really see words well unless the letters are FOUR INCHES TALL! Even better if the words are red, not black, to attract the eye to focus. No flash cards look like this! Two year olds still need three inch letters. Adult print is simply too small for their developing visual pathways to read! How bored and agitated would you be looking at small, blurry letters all day? It's like a constant eye-chart test set at 20/10!)
I loved this book and nearly every paragraph is supported by research completed all over the world on child development. The back of the book organized the cites and references by chapter so you can look in to the research if you want to arm yourself with facts! In fact, I have talked so positively about this book, my friends are lining up to borrow it and I'm encouraging everyone to buy their own copy because you will want to keep this one on-hand. I'm buying one for the gal that lives up the street that just won't quit talking about how "smart" and "advanced" her one year old is because she buys educational toys exclusively!
Honestly, you're going to find the answers you are looking for about how to both encourage creativity and teach the fundamentals your children need for Kindergarten. If nothing else, it will assure you that a relaxed, unstructured play day at home is one of the best things you can do for your child!
Play!.......2007-07-03
I am an Early Childhood Educator and read this book because it showed up in a research article I read. This book has a lot of awesome and powerful information for parents and educators. I highly recommend this book to any parent who does not have a backgroud in child development or in early childhood. It's an easy read, and leaves you with a renewed passion towards the simple things in childhood.
Great Read for all parents.......2007-06-27
This book is so encouraging! I am so frustrated with parents that believe that their children need to be involved in everything. The book is packed full of research that shows just the opposite. Children need to play and they learn best through play. It is so important that we spend quality time with our children and the authors reinforce this throughout the book. This book educates parents with the ways to go about helping our children and debunking the myths and lies such as purchasing certain products like flashcards, classical music at an early age, and certain toys make our children smarter.
Average customer rating:
- Great for moms new to the game
- Great book!
- if you have any parental intuition, you're doing fine and don't need this book.
- NO New ideas in this book-only buy if u have not bought ANY baby items.
- Contains the activies I'd thought of, and more
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Baby Play (Gymboree)
Wendy S Masi ,
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Direct babies with interactive activities that are easy, skill building, and fun! Over 100 activities for babies 0 - 12 months. A variety of activities organized by appropriatemess for each month of life. Developed in consultation with the play experts at Gymboree.
Customer Reviews:
Great for moms new to the game.......2007-10-12
If you are someone who has not worked with children or been around children for an extended period of time this book would be very helpful. It has creative and fun ideas for playtime with the ones under 6 months that my husband found very useful. I recommend it for husbands, grandparents and new moms.
Great book!.......2007-09-28
I love this book! It is filled with great ideas, and organized by age range. The pictures are large and very helpful along with the descriptions of the activities. Even if you think you may have thought of some of these ideas on your own, it's hard to know when to introduce each activity and what specific skills it is building. This book is a great resource.
if you have any parental intuition, you're doing fine and don't need this book........2007-09-18
i found the activities in this book uninspiring. i was already implementing 99% of them just in my everyday interactions with my infant. i was hoping for something that would further enhance the development of my child, but it turns out the things that naturally occur to a parent are just fine. my baby is only 3 months, so perhaps the activites for older babies will be more interesting. the play for newborns was a disappointment.
NO New ideas in this book-only buy if u have not bought ANY baby items........2007-08-13
This book is very good and give you a lot of ways to interact with your infant and to help his development. However, a lot of the things are things child development books tell you to do and include things that are products on the market.
For example, the book has how to make tummy rolls from towels but, i had already purchased the boppy tummy time mat for this. If i had known or even thought about this towel method before I bought and opened the package then I would not have purchased the boppy.
A couple other examples are the play mat and mobile. This book tell you how to make them with things you already have in the home. Not much use if you have already assembled the baby's room and used the play mat. This is pretty much how things in the book are. There are no NEW ideas in this book.
Contains the activies I'd thought of, and more.......2007-07-23
Thanks to other reviewers, I found this book to be exactly what I wanted!
I use this book to vary the activities I do with my daughter and ensure I am working on varied developmental milestones. I particularly love the airplane exercise that has enabled me to work with my daughter on neck and abdomen physical development despite her reflux problem.
Pros
Broken down by age
Explains what's being developed in your child by the activity
Great for a first time parent
Cons
A couple of the activities seemed dangerous to me, so I skipped them
If you have a strong imagination, then maybe you don't need the book
Book Description
This kit includes:
• The Sign, Sing, and Play! Book
• Flash Cards for Signing and Games
• The “Songs for Little Hands” CD, with
Signing Melodies and Activity Guide
When it comes to signing with babies, the secret to success is to make signing fun!
Using signs in playful and engaging ways gets babies’ attention and stimulates their interest in signing like nothing else.
The Sign, Sing, and Play Kit contains everything you need to have the most fun ever with signing—
Sign along with the flashcards as you make up a story about the pictures,
Sing and sign a song along with the “Songs for Little Hands” music CD
by award-winning singer/songwriter Susan Z (an illustrated Sing-and-Sign guide is included),
Play a game with your baby from Sign, Sing, and Play, a book of signing games and activities for at home and on the go!
Get ready to have fun and watch your baby’s signing really take off!
Customer Reviews:
Great kit for beginners!.......2007-07-14
I love this kit. My baby just turned 6 months old, and we are beginning to sign to her (she already recognizes milk). The flash cards are very easy to understand. My 10 year old memorized all the signs from the flash cards in a day, and loves teaching them to us. The CD is great, too. The music is very enjoyable, and the songs are simple, but very catchy; you won't get bored after listening to them several times. I love the songbook, too. It makes it SO easy to sign during the songs because you're not signing every single word. The sturdy cardboard box is a plus. The only reason I gave four stars instead of 5 is that there are two songs with "Mommy and Daddy" in them, and we all know there are many "non-traditional" families out there, and it would have been nice (and pretty easy, I think) to have words that include all children's families. Other than that, it's wonderful.
LOVE THIS KIT!.......2007-07-05
I have been signing with my kids for 5 years now--and my kids now are 5, 3, and 1. I was looking for songs to use with signing besides the basic basics..and this book has it all. My 5 and 3 year old LOVE singing and signing the songs with me, and my 1 year old tries to sign along. My 3 year old will just start singing the songs on the cd so I see the songs as easy to remember, fun and appealing to kids. I see this as a GREAT activity to do in the car on trips and a wonderful way have fun together as a family. We have gotten through half the songs and I am saving the rest for our next trip! The signs are easy to figure out from the pictures and its just fabulous! I listened to Monta speak once and she is fabulous too! Definitely a great kit for moms that want to sign with their babies and toddlers. The cd is the best as well to add the music and fun into the whole experience! Definitely a great buy!
A Multi-wonderful product!.......2007-06-05
First of all, this kit is so complete. It's fun and easy to use. It comes with a great CD with beautiful and easy songs to pick up and sign to. It has a book of signs just for the songs. Then, it has great flash cards that are really easy to understand. And finally, it contains a main book of all kinds of signs which I've misplaced do to a move, but of what I remember, it was loaded with info and easy to decipher. I use the signs all the time and sing the songs and she always smiles in reconition when I do. She hasn't signed back yet, but hopefully one day I'll get my reward. If you want to teach your child to sign, this is a fun and easy place to start. It also has a great free website in it that you can refer to. I really enjoy using the kit and would give it a higher rating, but I misplaced the main book before I could use it and so I can't properly rate the entire kit, plus I don't know yet if it works.
excellent baby sign language kit!.......2007-02-06
This kit is great!!! It comes with a song book thats shows the signs and words to the accompanying Music cd. And it has an activty book that gives tons of simple games and activities for mom & baby. There is also a set of flashcard/picures with a picture of a real object on one side and the sign on the other side. All of this comes in a sturdy storage box. I can't wait to give this as a baby gift!
One kit does it all.......2007-01-29
This kit is fabulous. There is a song book that goes with the CD so you don't have to flip through the bigger book to find the words and signs. The larger book is a great reference for signs and activities to remember them. The flashcards are awesome, they have a color picture of the object on one side and then the word and sign on the other. The child learns sign language and how to read at the same time. Everyone in my sign language play group wants one after I brought it to play group last week. The other moms quickly picked up the songs and we were having a ball in no time with our infants.
Book Description
For children, anytime is playtime. "Wonderplay" is a parent's guide to active child's play. With more than 200 activities--games, craft projects, cooking, music, dancing, and more--this wonderful book offers many ways to have fun with children and encourage them to learn and grow.
Customer Reviews:
Pretty but empty of substance.......2007-09-26
This is a great book to look at. It scream's GIFT ME! But if you look inside this book, you will find that you could do better with any number of game and craft resources. It is not useful if you have any other busy books.
Neat book!.......2007-02-03
I like this book for the simple fact that once you've tried everything you can think of to entertain your toddler, ALAS, comes this book through the mail. There's really neat activities, recipes , and crafts. It goes from infant to preschooler..so you'll get good use out of it. I would recommend this book to any mother.
a little disappointing.......2007-01-12
i really decided to buy this book because i wanted to find some activities i could do with my child that would help his development. but i was disappointed to find out that there was like 3 pages of stuff for children ages 0 to 6 months. this book was advertised as having stuff from birth to toddler, it shouldn't have misled people about what was in the book. i mean all there is for under 6 months is some rhymes and a couple of activities. i thought there was going to be some stuff about activities to help them reach their developmental milestones. i mean their are probably not many people that don't know the few rhymes and games that are in the book.
A staple if you have children.......2006-12-24
Engaging activities--simple and creative. Years of fun, playing, exploring, and learning. Easy to understand and do. We have loved it and given it as a gift to new parents, too. Wonderful!
A great resource idea book!.......2005-09-27
I get a TON of ideas from Wonderplay by Fretta Reitzes. I'm a home daycare provider and I'm always looking for ideas to do with my daycare kids. I don't know what I would do with out this book. It'a MUST have for home daycare providers and parents of small kids
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This comprehensive guide provides information on planning programs with a play-based, developmental curriculum for children from birth to five years of age and covers basic principles and current research in early childhood curricula. The book is unique in that it discusses the creative play model for use with children from infancy through preschool by presenting an integrated, individualized curricular approach that helps teachers to be sensitive to and to plan for young children with a variety of developmental and cultural backgrounds. For teachers and future teachers specializing in Early Childhood Education.
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- mother of three little girls
- Not What I Hoped For.
- Dont forget your childhood!
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Imaginative play is more vital for a child's future than many parents and educators realize. The more they are allowed to be absorbed in their play, the more fully and effectively they will later take their place in the community of adults.
Drawing on her experiences as a mother and as a proponent of Rudolf Steiner's Waldorf system of education, author Heidi Britz-Crecelius emphasizes the different qualities of play that may extend through more than one phase of childhood. She focuses on natural materials and recommends specific games, toys, and art supplies that further the mobility of the mind and the powers of expression without the burden that premature schooling can place on children.
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Customer Reviews:
Disappointing.......2007-04-30
This book would have been better as an article.
At times, she was all over the place.
Some interesting points, but a lot of fluff.
mother of three little girls.......2005-08-16
i checked out and read the older edition of this book titled 'children at play, preparation for life', and i found it quite touching. the author speaks alot of her experience growing up in post war germany. the information she gives was like talking to the grandmother i never had. i admit to wet eyes a few times.... i could imagine what a child's play life was like before our t.v. babysitting days and logoed toys eliminated much of our creativity. she discusses how children get what they need from simple things that are part of our natural surroundings and our lives. she explains how through play, children can deal with the different aspects of becoming a human being.
alot of what she explained is typical steiner/waldorf philosophy, which is beautiful if you want to take the time to understand it properly, (and btw the philosophy certainly won't hurt you if you don't want to take that time).
it is a simple, flowing, and instinctual philosophy that is truly empowering and peaceful. i thought this book was really precious and i will buy it to add to my library, future gifts for my own daughters.
Not What I Hoped For........2004-11-20
Since I am new to Waldorf ideas, I was hoping for a few more clearly-stated Waldorf principles and ways to apply them. This book wanders quite a lot. Although I agree with the main point of the book, that children need to play, some of the research the author presents and then the jumps to conclusion that follow are a bit far-fetched. I guess I'll move on to some other books.
Dont forget your childhood!.......2004-10-27
This book wasn't what I expected. I guess I was looking for a more practical guide-type book, but instead it read like an inspiring essay, reminding me of the places ansd people I created in my childhood. Ok, maybe that sounds weird, but I remember so foundly the days spent running in the woods, creating forts and making dolls out of anything I could find. Oh, I had Barbie dolls galore, but, as this book reminds us- the richest play times are the imaginative ones- with out todays fabricated props that dont allow our childrens minds to create.
Not just for Waldorfians.......2002-03-12
I have dusted the cobwebs off of so many forgotten childhood memories since reading this book. This book has also been excellent for encouraging me to play more imaginatively with my kids. Children At Play is an unexpected life altering book.
Book Description
This text introduces the early childhood student to the essential aspects of the early childhood curriculum: intelligence and potential, developmentally appropriate practice, healthy relationships, play, values, assessment, and planning. It allows the student to recall, interpret, summarize, associate, relate, apply, create, design, assess, and discriminate the information presented through intriguing journal questions and activities. Curriculum in early childhood education. Early Childhood Curriculum.
Book Description
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 as teachers and administrators are under growing pressures to measure school readiness through rote learning and increased homework. In her new book, Vivian Gussin Paley decries this rapid disappearance of creative time and makes the case for the critical role of fantasy play in the psychological, intellectual, and social development of young children.
A Child's Work goes inside classrooms around the globe to explore the stunningly original language of children in their role-playing and storytelling. Drawing from their own words, Paley examines how this natural mode of learning allows children to construct meaning in their worlds, meaning that carries through into their adult lives. Proof that play is the work of children, this compelling and enchanting book will inspire and instruct teachers and parents as well as point to a fundamental misdirection in today's educational programs and strategies.
Customer Reviews:
geting in touch with your childhood.......2007-08-29
Vivian Gussen Paley is one of the best advocates for children baing allowed to learn through play. She reminds us of how we used to learn, how we used fantasy play to calm our anxieties, and also the need for us to stop and really listen to what children are talking about. This book is a must have for parents, and teachers of children aged 0ne to eight, it offers an insight to the value of children learning to learn. Fantasy play encompasses every aspect of the curricullum and the value that should be placed in this type of play.
Dramatic play book!.......2007-05-06
Used this in a college class about play! Paley's book meets and exceeds my expecations! Wonderful ideas about capturing and documenting children's dramatic play
A Child's Work: The Importance of Fantasy Play.......2005-10-03
I enjoy all of Vivian Paley's books, but this one is especially timely and pertinent since I am part of a kindergarten readiness transition team for a school district in Pennsylvania. Ms. Paley is very clear about the importance of play during the early childhood years and brings her beliefs across in a simple and convincing format. I bought a copy for each member of our team with the hope that it will illicit thoughtful discussion and lead us toward some needed changes in our views of what is significant in our relationships, interactions and guidance of young children as we make policies, and set out to prepare children for elementary school and beyond.
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