It's OK to Go Up the Slide: Renegade Rules for Raising Confident and Creative Kids - Softcover

Shumaker, Heather

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0399172009 ISBN 13: 9780399172007

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2016

Synopsis

In this sequel to It s OK Not to Share, Heather Shumaker continues to overturn all the conventional rules of parenting.

Heather Shumaker has sparked much discussion with her renegade rules for raising competent and compassionate kids. In this follow-up book, she takes on new hot-button issues like banning homework, technology use, and skipping kindergarten. Shumaker also offers broader guidance on how parents can control their own anger 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 related to money management, nutrition, housekeeping, developing charitable habits, or coping emotionally with setbacks. Sometimes being a good parent means breaking the rules.

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Review:

Praise for "It's OK Not to Share"
"Rarely do parenting books trigger in me an exhale. But the title alone for Heather Shumaker's new book came like that rare August breeze." --"The Washington Post" "On Parenting"
"A refreshing change from the usual admonitions, Shumaker's Renegade Rules are based on what children really need." --Lawrence J. Cohen, author of "Playful Parenting"

"In her thought-provoking new book, Shumaker challenges some of our assumptions as parents and teachers. She shows us clearly and candidly what kids truly need. This is a helpful and inspiring read for anyone concerned with raising the next generation of healthy children."
Michael Gurian, author of "The Wonder of Boys" and "The Wonder of Girls"
"Heather Shumaker, the agent-provocateur of the young childhood set, is back in fine form with "It's OK to Go Up the Slide." By refusing to accept received wisdom without questioning it, Shumaker makes the reader think about what children really need when it comes to safety, homework, technology, and interpersonal interactions. She'll provoke you to think afresh in places where you didn't even think there was a choice."
Lawrence J. Cohen, PhD, author of "Playful Parenting"
"The fact that Heather Shumaker stops to re-examine almost all the conventional wisdom about childhood to figure out which of it is based on anything other than, 'That's just how it's done' makes her my hero."
Lenore Skenazy, author of "Free-Range Kids: How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts with Worry)
""Sensible and provocative. This book will turn notions about kids, families, and schools upside down. From homework to strangers to technology, Shumaker tackles all the big topics facing the preschool to elementary set.Do your family or classroom a favor and grab this book. "
" Amy McCready, author of" The "Me, Me, Me" Epidemic "and" If I Have to Tell You One More Time...
""Once again, Heather Shumaker challenges our unquestioned assumptions about child-raising with such clarity that you ll wonder why her points weren t glaringly obvious to you before reading her book. Addressing the issues of middle childhood, Shumaker makes a convincing case on issues from 'safety first' (which poses a greater danger to your child than healthy risk) to kindergarten (your child may do better to skip it). Parents will especially love the 'cheat sheets' where Shumaker gives suggested words to use to implement these renegade rules in real life.""
" Dr. Laura Markham, author of ""Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids
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"""Heather Shumaker s comprehensive and courageous on-target book emanates common sense grounded in solid research. For parents desiring the best for their children, it can serve as a practical guide to responsible resistance to unsound current educational/parental dogmas."
Stuart Brown, M.D., founder and president of The National Institute for Play""
"""The norms of parenting today with their over-concern for safety and promotion of continuous surveillance and control are stifling our children. In this delightful book, Heather Shumaker teaches us how to be renegade parents, willing and able to flout the norms in order to promote the long-term mental and physical health of our kids. I recommend it not just to parents, but to anyone involved with the lives of young children."
Peter Gray, research professor of psychology at Boston College and author of"""Free to Learn"
"""This book is chock full of reasons for joining the renegade army! In a gentle, yet direct fashion, Heather encourages us to remove our adult lenses and take a hard look at how some of our own actions lead to many of our family s stressors.She leaves us with supportive next steps and a powerful sense of 'I can do this!'"
--Lisa Murphy, M.Ed., early childhood specialist and cofounder of Ooey Gooey, Inc."""
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About the Author:

Heather Shumakeris a national speaker on parenting and early childhood topics, and is the author of "It's OK Not to Share."An advocate for free, unstructured play in homes and schools, she lives in northern Michigan with her family."

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0399172009
• ISBN 13: 9780399172007
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384