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Playful Parenting - by Lawrence Cohen | Derek Sivers
Playful Parenting: An Exciting New Approach to Raising Children That Will Help You Nurture Close Connections, Solve Behavior Problems, and Encourage Confidence
Playful Parenting helps with the toughest aspects of parenting: tantruming toddlers, biting preschoolers, anxious third-graders, out-of-control preteens. Playfulness resolves our battles over getting dressed and ready in the morning, soothes our frazzled nerves at the end of a long day, and restores family harmony. Playful Parenting offers a hand e
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Playful parenting is so much more than just getting down on the floor and ‘playing’; it’s an approach to everyday interactions with children which can help with the hardest parts of parenting — arguments, big emotions, anxiety — and bring more joy into every part of our life. It can help us to reconsider what it means to be a parent, and allow us t
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Just as Playful Parenting provides the key for helping children unlock the tower of isolation, engaging playfully with children also helps them build the confidence it takes to step out of the tower of powerlessness.
from Playful Parenting: An Exciting New Approach to Raising Children That Will Help You Nurture Close Connections, Solve Behavior Problems, and Encourage Confidence by Lawrence J. Cohen PhD
- The most creative (when in this mood) as being childlike. For they were able to play with ideas… to explore them… not for any immediate practical purpose but just for enjoyment. Play for its own sake.
from "Creativity in Management" by JamesClear.com
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How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 (The How To Talk Series)
by Julie King
- Children actively interpret and try to understand both what people do and why they do it.
Children actually learn more from the unconscious details of what caregivers do than from any of the conscious manipulations of parenting.
Children learn by watching and imitating the people around them.
And they learn by listening to what other people say about ... See morefrom The Gardener and the Carpenter - by Alison Gopnik | Derek Sivers by Derek Sivers
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- The three keys to peaceful parenting:
- Regulate your own emotions:“Our ability to self-regulate might have the biggest impact on who our child turns out to be compared to anything else we do”
- Connect with your kids
- Coach instead of punishing
from Dr. Laura Markham: Peaceful Parenting [The Knowledge Project Ep. #52] by Farnam Street
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