An early childhood development expert shows how to craft a nurturing childhood for your sons and daughters, while minimizing negative societal influences. Based on early-childhood development expert Nancy Carlsson-Paige’s thirty years of researching young children, this groundbreaking book helps parents navigate the cultural currents shaping, and too often harming, kids today—and restore childhood to the best of what it can be. As Carlsson-Paige explains, there are three attributes critical to kids’ healthy development: time and space for creative play, a feeling of safety in today’s often frightening world, and strong, meaningful relationships with both adults and other children—attributes that we, as a society, are failing to protect and nurture. From advising parents on which toys foster creativity (and which stifle it) to guiding them in how to use “power-sharing” techniques to resolve conflicts and generate empathy, Carlsson-Paige offers hands-on steps parents can take to create a safe, open, and imaginative environment in which kids can relish childhood and flourish as human beings. “Dr. Carlsson-Paige explains the many ways our culture and media are threatening our children’s healthy development. She gives adults concrete strategies for fighting back. Today’s parents need this book.”—Marian Wright Edelman, Children’s Defense Fund

Taking Back Childhood: A Proven Roadmap for Raising Confident, Creative, Compassionate Kids

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Carlsson-Paige, Nancy

Psychology & Counseling

Plume

The War Play Dilemma : Balancing Needs and Values in the Early Childhood Classroom (Early Childhood Education Series)

Levin, Diane, E.

Reference

Teachers' College Press

As violence in the media and media-linked toys increases, parents and teachers are also seeing an increase in children’s war play. The authors have revised this popular text to provide more practical guidance for working with children to promote creative play, and for positively influencing the lessons about violence children are learning. 
Using a developmental and sociopolitical viewpoint, the authors examine five possible strategies for resolving the war play dilemma and show which best satisfy both points of view: banning war play; taking a laissez-faire approach; allowing war play with specified limits; actively facilitating war play; and limiting war play while providing alternative ways to work on the issues. 
New for the Second Edition:
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<li> More anecdotal material about adults’ and children’s experiences with war play, including examples from both home and school settings.</li>
<li> Greater emphasis on the impact of media and commercialization on children’s war play, including recent trends in media, programming, marketing, and war toys.</li>
<li> Expanded discussion about the importance of the distinction between imitative and creative war play.</li>
<li> Summary boxes of key points directed at teachers or parents.</li>
<li> New information about violent video games, media cross feeding, and gender development and sex-role stereotyping.</li>
<li> A more extensive list of resources and further reading for adults and children.</li>
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Praise for the First Edition!
“Powerful…A wealth of practical suggestions for parents and teachers.”;
―Young Children
“Comprehensive and useful…Educators who read this book and implement its suggestions will be making an important contribution to a peaceful future for their young students.”
―Teachers College Record

The War Play Dilemma: What Every Parent and Teacher Needs to Know (Early Childhood Education Series)

Humor & Entertainment

Book by Carlsson-Paige, Nancy, Levin, Diane E.

Who's Calling the Shots?: How to Respond Effectively to Children's Fascination with War Play, War Toys and Violent TV

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

New Society Publishers

Helping Young Children Understand Peace, War and Nuclear Threat

Natl Assn for the Education

Book by Carlsson-Paige, Nancy, Levin, Diane

Helping Young Children Understand Peace, War, and the Nuclear Threat

Levin, Diane

Arguing that today's culture is fraught with elements that are eroding the quality of kids' lives, a guide for parents offers advice on how to protect their children from harmful trends by providing quality creative play time, enabling security, and forging healthy bonds between children and other adults and kids. 25,000 first printing.

Taking Back Childhood: Helping Your Kids Thrive in a Fast-Paced, Media-Saturated, Violence-Filled World

Hudson Street Press

Because Calvin wants to play pirates and Angela wants to play store with an old card table which they found in the trash, they must find a way to resolve their conflict.

Best Day of the Week

Children's Books

Henriquez, Celeste

Literature & Fiction

Redleaf Press

In a violent society where there are so few models for positive conflict resolution, teachers can help children learn the skills that they will need to communicate, negotiate, and resolve their conflicts with others. By using the childrens book Best Day of the Week as a starting point, Before Push Comes to Shove shows how teachers of young children can begin to build conflict resolution skills with young children in ways that are meaningful to them and embedded in their everyday school experiences. Nine comprehensive chapters address topics ranging from the basis of conflict resolution education to how to develop a specific curriculum. The last chapter gives helpful resource information.

Before Push Comes to Shove: Building Conflict Resolution Skills with Children

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