Who's Calling the Shots?: How to Respond Effectively to Children's Fascination With War Play and War Toys - Hardcover

Nancy Carlsson-Paige; Diane E. Levin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 086571164X ISBN 13: 9780865711648

Publisher: New Society Pub, 1990

Synopsis

Book by Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Diane E. Levin

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Review:

Children's war play: the issue for parents is no longer as simple as love it or leave it. Nancy Carlsson-Paige and Diane Levin explain the parallel changes in society and children's war play that make a yes or no decision impossible. Children have less control over war play than ever before. Combine high-tech war toys with an increasingly violent attitude in society and in the media, and we get an explosive mix that must be dealt with diplomatically instead of disallowed as forbidden fruit or shrugged off as "natural." The authors discuss several strategies to return creative control of play to children and to lessen the emphasis on violent content.

From Library Journal:

There is a growing concern among parents, teachers, and others about the proliferation of warlike toys, rampantly marketed and enthusiastically greeted by our nation's children. Here, two educators explore the often developmentally necessary role of aggressive play in childhood, demonstrate how most of the current Rambo-type toys actually undermine the potential value of such play, offer a number of creative alternatives to these toys, and suggest ways in which individuals can help to affect public policy to discourage this trend (e.g., by urging tighter regulation of children's television). A sound and effective treatment of an important topic, recommended for most public libraries.
-Marcia G. Fuchs, Guilford Free Lib., Ct.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Society Pub
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 086571164X
• ISBN 13: 9780865711648
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 188