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Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids
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November 10, 2014
Just finished this for the second time and I loved it just as much as the first time. I bought my own copy this time so I could highlight, which I did like crazy. Will read again!
September 8, 2012
Outstanding! This book covers four areas for simplifying home and family.
1. Environment.
The average American child receives 70 toys a year. "Kids don't need many toys to play, or any particular one. What they need most of all is unstructured time."
2. Rhythm:
"A ten year study found that the less often a family eats together, the more likely the television will be on during dinner, the less healthy the food, and, as rated by participants, the more meager the talk and less satisfying, overall, the experience is likely to be." The author also talks in detail about the importance of a regular bedtime, bedtime rituals, reading, and eating real food.
3. Schedules:
"The over-scheduled child is like soil that has been constantly and exclusively cropped. Without rest and replenishment, without the deep roots of legumes to aerate and pull nutrients down into the soil, it becomes compacted, a dust bowl."
"The ordinary allows for the exceptional, but not the reverse. Given ordinary opportunities and encouragement, a truly exceptional talent with surface. But interests, even strong interests and abilities often burn out when they're pushed too hard, too fast, too young."
4. Filtering out the adult world:
"Television viewing hurts the development of children under three years old and poses a certain number of risks, encouraging passivity, slow language acquisition, over-excitedness, troubles with sleep and concentration, as well as dependence on screens."
"Multiple studies have now concluded that watching television, even such educational programming as Sesame Street, actually delays rather than promotes language development."
"As distractions fall away, a sense of ease stakes hold and expands. There's more time for connection, room for contemplation and play. Boredom, once feared and banished from the home, will be allowed in again, appreciated for how often it precedes inspiration. Contrary to what you might think, regularity is more liberating than "boring" to most children. Rituals that can be counted on throughout the day and week act as powerful affirmations."
Just finished this for the second time and I loved it just as much as the first time. I bought my own copy this time so I could highlight, which I did like crazy. Will read again!
September 8, 2012
Outstanding! This book covers four areas for simplifying home and family.
1. Environment.
The average American child receives 70 toys a year. "Kids don't need many toys to play, or any particular one. What they need most of all is unstructured time."
2. Rhythm:
"A ten year study found that the less often a family eats together, the more likely the television will be on during dinner, the less healthy the food, and, as rated by participants, the more meager the talk and less satisfying, overall, the experience is likely to be." The author also talks in detail about the importance of a regular bedtime, bedtime rituals, reading, and eating real food.
3. Schedules:
"The over-scheduled child is like soil that has been constantly and exclusively cropped. Without rest and replenishment, without the deep roots of legumes to aerate and pull nutrients down into the soil, it becomes compacted, a dust bowl."
"The ordinary allows for the exceptional, but not the reverse. Given ordinary opportunities and encouragement, a truly exceptional talent with surface. But interests, even strong interests and abilities often burn out when they're pushed too hard, too fast, too young."
4. Filtering out the adult world:
"Television viewing hurts the development of children under three years old and poses a certain number of risks, encouraging passivity, slow language acquisition, over-excitedness, troubles with sleep and concentration, as well as dependence on screens."
"Multiple studies have now concluded that watching television, even such educational programming as Sesame Street, actually delays rather than promotes language development."
"As distractions fall away, a sense of ease stakes hold and expands. There's more time for connection, room for contemplation and play. Boredom, once feared and banished from the home, will be allowed in again, appreciated for how often it precedes inspiration. Contrary to what you might think, regularity is more liberating than "boring" to most children. Rituals that can be counted on throughout the day and week act as powerful affirmations."
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September 8, 2012
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November 10, 2014
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