Category Archives: character development

Why Boredom is Good for Kids

If you enjoy what you read here at Child Perspective, please take a moment to share it with a friend. It's summer break here in the northern hemisphere and there is a barrage of articles on how to keep your kids entertained ...

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Never Play With Your Kids Again

Parents shouldn't play with their kids. Not ever. Kids should always play by themselves. Why? Well, parents have more important things to do. That seems to be what some readers over at parentdish thought that Lenore Skenazy meant in her recent post, Just Chute Me! A little background:  Lenore is the author of Free Range ...

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Bringing Meaning Back to Manners

The recent kerfuffle here at Child Perspective seems to beg for a discussion of manners. If you have been following along, you might think that I mean adults' manners. But for consistency sake, I'll stick to a discussion about kids. Although one could make the obvious (I hope) point that children learn from the adults ...

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Did I Get it Wrong?

A recent post titled, My Child Refused Her Gifts, has had a storm of viewings and comments. Some of the comments have been at Child Perspective, some on my personal Facebook page, and some on TwitterMoms. Since readers here at Child ...

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