Remote Control: Play While You Work
The only tool you’ll need for this game is a real (or pretend) remote control. It’s a fun one for the child who is balking at helping with his household chores. You can start with almost any activity that requires physical motion: Dancing, cleaning a bedroom together, jumping rope, bouncing a ball, doing the dishes […]
Great Gifts: How to Pick the Perfect Toy
Over the years, in my effort to purchase the perfect toy, I’ve inadvertently paid good money for a few lemons. One year, I succumbed to a six-year-old’s heartfelt plea that the only thing he really wanted for Christmas was a $250 toy robot. Imagine my dismay when I learned that I had spent a substantial […]
Mudluscious and Puddle-Wonderful
If you’re one of those stuffy old adults who constantly worries about things like freshly-mopped kitchen floors and clean carpets, there is a cure for you. It is called springtime. And as any child can tell you, one of spring’s most decadent pleasures awaits you in plentiful supply if you’ll only give yourself permission to […]
Play Manifesto – It’s Time To Play!
Fred Rogers said it best when he said, “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.” Mr. Rogers dedicated much of his life to the belief that children learn critical life skills through the medium […]