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About the Book
Book Synopsis
The "rules" in this book focus on the toddler and preschool years--an important time for laying the foundation for competent and compassionate older kids and then adults. Here are a few of the rules:
- It's OK if it's not hurting people or property
- Bombs, guns and bad guys allowed.
- Boys can wear tutus.
- Pictures don't have to be pretty.
- Paint off the paper!
- Sex ed starts in preschool
- Kids don't have to say "Sorry."
- Love your kid's lies.
IT'S OK NOT TO SHARE is an essential resource for any parent hoping to avoid PLAYDATEGATE (i.e. your child's behavior in a social interaction with another child clearly doesn't meet with another parent's approval)!
Review Quotes
An insightful, sensible and compassionate book full of downright revolutionary ideas.
-Salon.com
Brilliant. . . . It's OK Not to Share is an enlightening book that will make you take a second look at everything you believe.
-Parents.com
Did you read the title and think, what the heck? Me, too. Not only did I read it to figure out the title, I underlined about a third-it's that good.
-Melissa Taylor, ImaginationSoup.net
What an amazing book! [Shumaker] challenge[s] the parenting myths and fallacies that our society has embraced for so long.
-Provider Resource Organization
A breath of fresh air.
-Jane Pratt, founder of xoJane.com
These 'renegade rules' will resonate with what you know to be true, speak to what you want most for your children, and teach you how to achieve it. Don't let this one slip off your reading list.
-Dr. Becky Bailey, author of Conscious Discipline and Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline
This beautifully written book. . . provides immediate, sanity-saving answers to tough parenting questions. I highly recommend it.
-Michael Gurian, author of The Wonder of Boys and The Good Son
From 'Bombs, Guns, and Bad Guys Allowed' to 'I Hate You! Is Nothing Personal, ' the table of contents alone is music to my ears. Heather Shumaker is a healthy mom I can relate to-and I'll bet you will too, when you hear out her logic.
-Paula Spencer Scott, author of Momfidence!
A refreshing change from the usual admonitions. . . Shumaker's Renegade Rules are based on what children really need.
-Lawrence J. Cohen, author of Playful Parenting
Shumaker beautifully shows us why letting kids be kids may be the single most important thing we can do as parents.
-Anthony T. DeBenedet, M.D. coauthor of The Art of Roughhousing
A must-read for parents and teachers. This is a book you will want with you all the time.
-Daniel Hodgins, author of Boys: Changing the Classroom, Not the Child
A no-nonsense commonsense appraoch. . . As you read this book, you will begin to feel the stress of parenting melt away.
-Vivian Kirkfield, PositiveParentalParticipation.com
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