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Nancy Carlsson-Paige, author of Taking Back Childhood, our guest blogger for the week of 2/23

Tue, 02/24/2009

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Nancy Carlsson-Paige is our guest blogger during the week of February 23th. If you have any questions for Nancy Carlsson-Paige, add a comment to any of her posts.

Here is some more information about Taking Back Childhood:

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.

About Nancy Carlsson-Paige:

NANCY CARLSSON-PAIGE, ED.D., is a professor of early-childhood education and conflict resolution at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and an active public speaker. Her work has been featured in Time, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and on NPR, CBS, and ABC.