Let Them Be Kids: Adventure, Boredom, Innocence, and Other Gifts Children Need   Import  Single ASIN  Import  Muleiple ASIN

5 reviews for Let Them Be Kids: Adventure, Boredom, Innocence, and Other Gifts Children Need   Import  Single ASIN  Import  Muleiple ASIN

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   Amazon Customer – 14 April 2023

   Good tips
   Good practical advice. Wish I had other mom friends like Jessica!

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   J.Jordan – 10 August 2020

   Great for young moms!
   This book was refreshing, challenging, humorous, inspiring, and empowering. As a mom of younger children, it helped me to be forward thinking about intentionally shaping my children’s childhoods. I hadn’t thought about many of the upcoming issues of middle to older childhood in their entirety and the author guided us through those well. She was quick to offer her own experiences as a child and mother and her own perspective, but also left it open to readers to make choices regarding the various aspects of raising children in this age. She was truth telling, yet humble. She made you laugh out loud and also addressed some serious aspects of the transition from childhood to becoming teenagers.I recently watched A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, where Tom Hanks played Mister Rogers, and it was so evident that Fred Rogers loved children, childhood, and valuing children in general. It is also clear that the author of Let Them Be Kids loves kids as well and values childhood. She greatly desires it to be a life-giving time for children and parents as well.I am glad she wrote this book and that I read it as a young mom.

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   Rated 3 out of 5

   Annie Murphy – 22 August 2021

   Girl wash your face and raise your kid right
   I remember reading somewhere after Girl Stop Apologizing came out – that it was white girl privilege stopped in a bottle. I never read that book after seeing that one reviewer had mentioned that the author’s concession to enduring adversity included having a root canal once.This book had over 200 reviews and close to 5 stars – so it must be amazing. Well it’s okay. There are definitely some nuggets that I felt were true and I think rather than being prescriptive this book probably should have stayed on the side of being descriptive instead.In a time post (mid?) COVID when ALL parents have become homeschool advisors with unfettered access to technology the last thing we want to hear is that we are rotting our kids’ brains and setting them all up for suicide and addiction.When she observes a clutch of 8th graders waiting for the bus all on their phones she assumes they aren’t being creative. Not thinking that perhaps they’re looking up YouTube videos together or TikTok and that those who ARE friends are actually sharing and giggling together and those who would prefer NOT to have to be social at 7am have a convenient escape. It might actually be that kid’s “space” they are seeking.Kids need to be heard and have a real connection. If you care about your kid, you will figure out what works for them and balance how much rigor you will need to inject into their routine versus how much will need to be removed. Some kids love following every single page of a Lego set instruction book while others have already dismissed that activity and has decided to go finger paint instead.The book is well organized into chapters that have key “gifts” that we can work to bestow our kids. Including things like Adventure, Boredom, Manners, Grit…. and several others. I like all of these, just not her anecdotes.I had to laugh about her way of exposing her kids at diversity when she had invited a Chinese woman to the pancake breakfast. (We are a multiracial family here, so every hour we are navigating a blending of cultures but I do understand that not every part of America will necessarily have access to inclusion and diversity by nature of geography/class/COVID stay at home orders). It would have been better to generalize the need to provide children a diverse set of experiences to expand their minds and their imagination. Which I believe the author and I would both agree.I am keeping the book as a reference for the framework laid out but not so much for the examples provided. I would love to see an updated edition where she collaborates with other families (kids that have special needs, kids that were adopted, parents who are unemployed, single parent households – unmarried parents, homosexual parents).This book is good as long as you have a balanced library with books like All Joy and No Fun, Nurture Shock, and Making of the Mind.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   Leticia Azevedo – 18 February 2022

   Amazing Book!
   I loved this book! The way she writes is so funny and light! I loved every page and exemple!It’s like she was reading my mind!You are not alone if you want to rase kids with less screen and more reality!Love it ❤️❤️❤️

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   MomOfThree – 17 June 2020

   Highly recommend!!
   I felt extremely motivated both during and after reading this book. Motivated & inspired to be more engaged, aware, proactive, creative, protective but also adventurous with my kids. It was a strong reminder that their time under our roof is so short but incredibly important. And during these impressionable years we can model and encourage healthy habits, behaviors and skills that will only better equip them to be higher functioning members of society as adults one day. Jessica approaches this book with a tone of humility & humor. I felt I could relate to her on a lot of different levels. I highly recommend this book to any parent!