Unplug your kids Just at the age when the lure of screen-time gets strongest, here is genuinely fun, completely screen-free play for 6-10 year olds. Here are games to play alone and games to play with siblings and friends and parents. Games to play indoors and games for outside. There are craft projects, creative outdoor sports competitions, card games, and ideas for creative play that encourages daydreaming. Plus special occasion games, perfect for a group at a scout meeting or birthday party. These are the kinds of truly fun games and activities deliberately designed to stretch the imagination, spark creativity, build strong bodies, forge friendships, and explore the real world--the opposite of hunkering down in front of an addictive screen.
Originally published as a single, parent-friendly encyclopedia of more than 700 screen-free, no-batteries-needed games and activities, Unplugged Play is acclaimed as "A terrific prescription for much of what ails children and parents today" (Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods) and "Just plain fun . . . Will help parents give their children the kind of childhood that more and more children are missing" (Mary Pipher, PhD, author of Reviving Ophelia).
These new editions are brightly designed books targeted to a specific age group. And the need, of course, is even greater than when the book was originally published--screens are far more ubiquitous, causing parents even greater concern about their overuse--and these timeless, imaginative, easy-to-implement games are here to the rescue.