Piggyback Rides and Slippery Slides - How to have fun raising first-rate children - Softcover

Lynnae W. Allred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1599550539 ISBN 13: 9781599550534

Publisher: Cedar Fort, 2007

Synopsis

We are busy. Our children: busy. Our grandchildren: busy. We are busy providing our offspring with comfort, experience, and social and academic skills - and yet many parents still fail to provide their children with the most important asset of all: play. Piggyback Rides and Slippery Slides calls for loving caregivers everywhere to improve the well-being of children through the simple art of play. As you create memories with your children, you will provide them with the skills they need to succeed in life - skills like empathy, problem solving, impulse regulation, assertiveness, and creativity. As research demonstrates, children who have learned how to play are better prepared academically, socially, and emotionally than their busier, "more accomplished" peers. And as you spend time playing with your children, you will discover that spending time together is the magic ingredient to trust, even if that time is spent just feeding ducks, flying a kite, or enjoying blueberry pancakes on a lazy Saturday morning. Lynnae W. Allred received her BA in humanities from Brigham Young University. For the past twenty years, her career has been motherhood. She and her husband, Garth, have five children. She has served in local and council PTA leadership positions, and received the District Award of Merit for her service to the Boy Scouts of America. Her volunteer work with children also includes many years of service in ecclesiastical assignments for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where she recently served as Stake Primary president (the Church's auxiliary organization for children).

About this title

About the Author

Lynnae W. Allred was born to two fun-loving parents who raised her in an era when seasonal work for children included tasks like building snowmen, making flower leis out of Catalpa Tree blossoms, playing Kick the Can in the backyard, and eating homemade doughnuts and caramel apples. It has been her life's work to give the same kind of childhood to her five children. She has yet to serve on the board of directors for a powerful corporation, but she has developed expertise in decorating birthday cakes using Cheetos, building pinewood derby cars, writing obituaries for pet fish, negotiating with toddlers who want ice cream at 3:00 a.m., repairing "backed over " tricycles, editing student body campaign videos, and creating sculptures out of chicken wire, smashed aluminum cans, and papier mache. Her personal interests include writing, needlework, photography, camping, music, reading, biking, and skiing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cedar Fort
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1599550539
• ISBN 13: 9781599550534
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240