Learning to Play, Playing to Learn : Games and Activities to Teach Sharing, Caring, and Compromise

by Charlie Steffens, Spencer Gorin

The innovative and creative games in Learning to Play, Playing to Learn foster social skills to help young people deal with conflict without resorting to violence. It guides parents and educators in helping children identify their own set of values and feelings while playing with others. It also discusses several ways to modify popular games to encourage fairness and trust in children and encourages the use of healthy play techniques to increase self-esteem, cooperation, personal responsibility, and emotional and physical health.

256 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1997

Reviews

[Jey · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is really awesome. I would like to purchase a copy of it. It talks about using play (recess type activities) to teach kids to get along. At the school I taught at we were trying to implement something like this at recess. Here it is already thought through and ready to go. I would love to know this backwards and forwards so I could direct my neighborhood kids when they are playing.