Your Active Child: How to Boost Physical, Emotional, and Cognitive Development through Age-Appropriate Activity

by Rae Pica

A guide to protecting children under eight years old from becoming either lethargic or high-strung Today, many children fall into one of two categories, neither of which is one group is almost entirely inactive, and the other spends most of their "free" time in highly structured, overly stressful competitive sports that are age-inappropriate. As an expert on children's movement and development, and as a consultant to the Children's Television Workshop, Gymboree, YMCA of the USA, and other groups, Rae Pica shows how the right kinds of activities increase children's enjoyment of physical activity for a lifetime. With straight talk on what works, what doesn't, and why, Pica teaches

Genres: Parenting

302 pages, Paperback

First published May 9, 2003

Reviews

[Karla · Rating 4 out of 5]

wonderful resource for families and schools
recommended

[Erica · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is completely misrepresented by way of the title and the "what this book covers" section on the back. It gives maybe 3 pages of helpful information for the description given (i.e. age-appropriate games, toys, and activities for children birth to 8 years old), and spends the majority of the pages denouncing competition (even going so far as to blame competition for the bankruptcy and divorce(s) of Dorothy Hamill) and encouraging parents to become active in advocating PE and recess at their children's schools and day-care centers. At the very least, the title and description need to be changed. I never would have picked it out if it had been appropriately labelled. Maybe I'll be able to salvage the time wasted by checking out some of the books listed in the "Resources" section, though if they were written by anyone the author quoted or by anyone who gave "Advance praise" I might seriously re-think that too.