365-Day Parent-Child Game Treasury

Author: Shira Elson (USA)
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This is a parenting and play book for families in the United States. The games listed in the book are mostly demonstrated by adults for children first, then guided to play together, fostering wisdom, skills, and creativity. Many activities involve parents and children jointly searching for and collecting materials from their surroundings and nature to create scenarios, works, props, and games, while learning organization and storage. The book introduces homemade books such as alphabet books, fun books, books recorded on tapes, books where balls bounce on them, and books to read in the bathtub, etc. This is the crystallization of wisdom and emotions between parents and babies, a truly personalized book that cannot be bought in stores and is worth collecting. For babies, life is play. Every day you spend with your baby brings them new experiences and gives you new opportunities to share joy with them. Every page in this book offers a joyful and practical way to create and enrich every moment you spend with your baby.
For babies, life is play. Every day you spend with your baby brings them new experiences and gives you new opportunities to share joy with them. Every page in this book offers a joyful and practical way to create and enrich every moment you spend with your baby.
This book also advocates parents spontaneously organizing playgroups. When children play with peers, they can learn social communication skills such as sharing, empathy, and compromise. The book also reminds parents not to bring things children are reluctant to share to playgroups. In this setting, adults do not persuade children to part with their cherished possessions, thus preventing envy, comparison, and competition among peers, which are all very humanistic approaches.
The book lists various types of gatherings, providing children with many opportunities to make friends. In these interactions, children are respected as independent individuals. Many parents complain that their children are shy—shouldn’t we reflect on whether we have given them the chance to practice and grow?