It's ok not to share And other renegade rules for raising competent and compassionate kids
Book - 2012
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- Published
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New York :
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
[2012]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 378 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781585429363
- Introduction
- Section I. Reviving Free Play
- Rule 1. Don't Steal Play
- Rule 2. It's OK if it's Not Hurting People or Property
- Rule 3. Kids Need Conflict
- Section II. Wild Emotions
- Rule 4. All Feelings are OK. All Behavior isn't
- Rule 5. Let Kids Hit and Kick
- Rule 6. "I Hate You!" is Nothing Personal
- Rule 7. Take Dictation from Your Tot
- Rule 8. Go Ahead: Let Him Hate the Baby!
- Section III. Sharing people and Toys
- Rule 9. It's OK Not to Share
- Rule 10. Let Her Hog That Toy All Day!
- Rule 11. We're Not All Friends Here
- Rule 12. You Can't Play = A-OK
- Rule 13. Hang Up a "No Girls" Sign
- Rule 14. Take Rejection in Stride
- Section IV. Running Room: Kids, Power and Action
- Rule 15. Ban Chairs-Not Tag
- Rule 16. Give Kids Power
- Rule 17. Only Punch Friends
- Rule 18. Bombs, Guns and Bad Guys Allowed
- Rule 19. Boys Can Wear Tutus
- Section V. Creativity, Persistence and Empty Praise
- Rule 20. Pictures Don't Have to Be Pretty
- Rule 21. Paint off the Paper
- Rule 22. Stop Saying "Good Job!"
- Section VI. Bad words, Polite Words and Lies
- Rule 23. Kids Don't Have to Say "Sorry"
- Rule 24. Let Your Kid Swear
- Rule 25. Love Your Kid's Lies
- Section VII. Sensitive Subjects
- Rule 26. Sex Ed Starts in Preschool
- Rule 27. Be Buddies with Dead Birds
- Section III. Renegade Rules in the Real World
- Rule 28. Make Some Enemies at the Playground
- Rule 29. Goof Up
- Appendix
- Acknowledgments