A Conscious Parent’s Resource Guide to Slow Parenting and the Gift of a Slow Childhood
Related Posts on this Blog
In Defense of a Slow Childhood
Children’s Books & Media that Support a Slow Childhood
Books
- Sleepy Boy by Polly Kanevsky
- Horse by Malachy Doyle
- Cow by Malachy Doyle
- All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon
- Fairy Houses by Tracy Kane
Slow Childhood Activities
- Build a Fairy House, or Caterpillar House (as my sister and I called them when we were little)
- Take a Nature Challenge (links to a blog with wonderful ideas for nature immersion). Here is the link for getting out with young children.
- Make a fort out of sheets or a huge box
- Plant a garden
- Break down and examine a broken piece of electronics (DVD player, radio, etc)
- Practice skipping stones
General Resources
- Simplicity Parenting
- The Simplicity Parenting Blog
- Slow Family Living
- What is Slow Parenting? – the Motherlode Blog @ NYTimes
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