Why Can't We Just Play?: What I Did When I Realized My Kids Were Way Too Busy - Softcover

Lobley, Pam

 
9781942934578: Why Can't We Just Play?: What I Did When I Realized My Kids Were Way Too Busy
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1942934572 ISBN 13: 9781942934578
Verlag: Familius, 2016

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Facing summer with her two boys, ages ten and seven, Pam Lobley was sifting through signups for swim team, rec camp, night camp, scout camp, and enrichment classes. Overwhelmed at the choices, she asked her sons what they wanted to do during summer: “Soccer? Zoo School? Little Prodigy’s Art Club?”

“Why can’t we just play?” they asked.

A summer with no scheduled activities at all . . . The thought was tempting, but was it possible? It would be like something out of the 1950s. Could they really have a summer like that?

Juggling the expectations of her husband (“Are you going to wear garters?”), her son, Sam (“I’m bored!”), and her son, Jack (“Can I just stay in my pajamas?”), Pam sets out to give her kids an old-fashioned summer. During the shapeless days, she studies up on the myths and realities of the 1950s. With her trademark wit and candor, she reveals what we can learn from those long-ago families, why raising kids has changed so drastically, and most importantly, how to stop time once in a while and just play.

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Pam Lobley is a comedic writer of plays, columns, and books. Her memoir, Why Can't We Just Play? What I Did When I Realized My Kids Were Way Too Busy, details the year she let her stressed, over-scheduled children, take the summer off from their busy activities and “just” play. She lives in New Jersey with her husband—actor Bill Lobley—a dog, and an almost-empty nest.

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"Why Can't We Just Play is smart, funny, insightful, and refreshingly honest. You’d think that Pam Lobley and I would be opposites – tiger mom vs. play mom – but I loved and totally related to her determination to parent against the tide. Entertaining and endearing, this book reminds us that parenting can be at once the most absurd, the most humbling, and the mostly deeply rewarding thing any of us ever do."
— AMY CHUA, Yale Law Professor and author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America

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Verlag
Familius
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1942934572
ISBN 13 
9781942934578
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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