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365 TV-Free Activities You Can Do With Your Child: Plus 50 All-New Bonus Activities
Now featuring more than four hundred entertaining ideas, this helpful guide for parents presents a wide array of craft projects, activities, and games that parents can share with their children, with helpful cross-references and indexes according to indoor and outdoor activities, age group, materials required, and more. Original.
- GenresParentingNonfiction
512 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2002
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November 5, 2008
I'm sure this is a good book for parents with plenty of time on their hands, desperate to get their kids away from the TV, and don't have any ideas about how to do that. I'm not one of those parents though.
David doesn't watch a lot of TV. He would if we let him, but we limit him and he finds other things to do. So right off, the book's not written for me, but its lack of usefulness is worsened because the suggestions in it are largely time-consuming and project-oriented. The title suggests a list of things you could spend a day doing (thus getting them all done in a year), but the activities I found in my flip-through were all more complicated than something you could do in even a whole afternoon.
On the other hand, if the book was marketed differently, I'd probably find it VERY useful. It's the implication behind the title that I find misleading, but if you replaced the word "activities" with "projects" and didn't highlight that the number of them equals the days in a year, you'd have a creative list of ways to spend some really good quality time with your kids.
David doesn't watch a lot of TV. He would if we let him, but we limit him and he finds other things to do. So right off, the book's not written for me, but its lack of usefulness is worsened because the suggestions in it are largely time-consuming and project-oriented. The title suggests a list of things you could spend a day doing (thus getting them all done in a year), but the activities I found in my flip-through were all more complicated than something you could do in even a whole afternoon.
On the other hand, if the book was marketed differently, I'd probably find it VERY useful. It's the implication behind the title that I find misleading, but if you replaced the word "activities" with "projects" and didn't highlight that the number of them equals the days in a year, you'd have a creative list of ways to spend some really good quality time with your kids.
July 20, 2020
I enjoy these types of books that give me new ideas of things to do with my kids.
I feel like the title is misleading for this book. To me, it seems like these should be activities that take the place of TV, so maybe a 15-30 min time frame? Some of these took 2 minutes and that was it. So really these aren't just things to do instead of TV, but rather all of their ideas do not involve watching television. I would change the title to be "Random Things To Do with Your Kids."
This book is a bit outdated. It has a lot of ideas involving encyclopedias.
We did all the ideas that were age appropriate for my son (4) and that we had the stuff for. Some ideas were better than others. I could always tell the good ones when my son asked to do it again later on. I'd say there were 40-50% of the ones we did he liked enough to ask again for them. A lot of them were a little dorky. And ideally this book is probably best for the average age of 8. There were a lot of things that my son wouldn't understand. And my guess is 12 year olds would think the ideas a little lame.
I feel like the title is misleading for this book. To me, it seems like these should be activities that take the place of TV, so maybe a 15-30 min time frame? Some of these took 2 minutes and that was it. So really these aren't just things to do instead of TV, but rather all of their ideas do not involve watching television. I would change the title to be "Random Things To Do with Your Kids."
This book is a bit outdated. It has a lot of ideas involving encyclopedias.
We did all the ideas that were age appropriate for my son (4) and that we had the stuff for. Some ideas were better than others. I could always tell the good ones when my son asked to do it again later on. I'd say there were 40-50% of the ones we did he liked enough to ask again for them. A lot of them were a little dorky. And ideally this book is probably best for the average age of 8. There were a lot of things that my son wouldn't understand. And my guess is 12 year olds would think the ideas a little lame.
May 19, 2008
Fun things to do with your kids.
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