 I recently finished reading The Way of Play: Using Little Moments of Big Connection to Raise Calm and Confident Kids by Tina Payne Bryson and Georgie Wisen-Vincent. I had listened to a live lecture by the author who visited a local school and heard about the book on a podcast as well. I had read some of her other books and learned a lot from them, and I'm always interested in learning how to "play" better so this book was fun for me to read.
I liked the approach it described and the many concrete suggestions and example scenarios. I also liked the comics and cheat sheet/guide that came with the book. I definitely recommend it to any parent who wants to leverage play even more in daily life. Below are my main notes and takeaways.
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 A fellow parent recommended to me the book Growing Up In Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World by Devorah Heitner, which I recently finished. It was a good complement to The Anxious Generation, which I had read previously. Heitner's book went into a lot more depth about the dangers of social media and the pitfalls of tracking technology and classroom grading apps (which I didn't have experience with).
I liked its concrete suggestions of how to talk about these topics with kids and how to teach real-world skills so kids can thrive as adults. Below are my main notes and takeaways. This is a very helpful book for any parent of growing adolescents/tweens/teens.  A school faculty member a while back recommended to me the book Living with Intensity: Understanding the Sensitivity, Excitability, and Emotional Development of Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Adults by Susan Daniels and Michael M. Piechowski. I recently finished reading it and learned a lot. It seemed to be geared towards professionals like therapists and educators but was still accessible and useful to parents.
I've definitely witnessed a lot of the intensities/overexcitabilities mentioned in the book, and I was relieved to hear about the wide ranges of these behaviors and how to cope with/support them best as parents. The theory and research portions were also interesting, even if less tangibly useful. This book is great for any parent of a gifted child or someone who works with gifted kids who are sometimes a "handful" to deal with. Below are my main notes and takeaways. |
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