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Why Can't We Just Play?
- What I Did When I Realized My Kids Were Way Too Busy
- Narrated by: AJ Ferraro
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Facing summer with her two boys, ages 10 and seven, Pam Lobley was sifting through signups for swim team, rec camp, night camp, scout camp, and enrichment classes. Overwhelmed at the choices, she asked her sons what they wanted to do during summer: "Soccer? Zoo School? Little Prodigy's Art Club?"
"Why can't we just play?" they asked.
A summer with no scheduled activities at all. The thought was tempting, but was it possible? It would be like something out of the 1950s. Could they really have a summer like that?
Juggling the expectations of her husband ("Are you going to wear garters?"), her son Sam ("I'm bored!"), and her other son, Jack ("Can I just stay in my pajamas?"), Pam sets out to give her kids an old-fashioned summer. During the shapeless days, she studies up on the myths and realities of the 1950s. With her trademark wit and candor, she reveals what we can learn from those long-ago families, why raising kids has changed so drastically, and most importantly, how to stop time once in a while and just play.
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- Grace Kemp
- 16-02-2023
Bland and Unhelpful
Such a bland book that goes over and over the same idea so many times. I really felt like it was going to go somewhere, but it didn’t. She talks about wanting a 1950’s summer so her kids aren’t signed up for every activity but then let’s her kids watch tv for 4 hours straight and play video games so she can continue to work. So much complaining about how her children are inconvenient and don’t like what she wants and comparing to other families the whole way through. Oh and always talking about how her husband had an unhealthy obsession with the lawn.
There was about 2 or 3 sentences in the entire book that were decent and maybe held a nugget of advice in them.
The very last chapter is dedicated to ideas you can use with your children (which she didn’t use with her own) such as hopscotch, capture the flag, red light green light, four square and other seriously simple games.
I wouldn’t recommend this book, it was a waste of time and was not helpful in the slightest - I listened to it as part of a book club and I’m really not sure why they picked it.
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