What if you could teach something meaningful to your kids every day in less than 15 minutes? You can, through Lesson Games. This book shows parents how to take a big, complicated concept, scale it to whatever each child can handle… and make it fun. Because this is about playing first; the learning is a powerful side effect.
An entertaining, imaginative guide to teaching your kids while having fun
You would do anything for your kids, right? What if you could do something meaningful for them in less than 15 minutes a day? You can. You can give your kids superpowers. These superpowers come through a combination of knowledge and empowerment which is the result of attention from you parents while playing games with your kids.
In Empower Your Kids, bestselling author Noah Charney shows parents how to teach kids something new every day-while playing. As a professor and parent of two, Charney knows the importance of education while also recognizing the valuable role games play in child development. Combining the two makes learning easy, painless, even fun. Because parents are often overwhelmed with getting everyone off to school, work, cleaning, and bedtime routines, Charney has compiled invaluable miniature lessons to share with families, “lessonlets,” that take as little as one minute and no more than 15 to complete. Each lessonlet includes some professional tricks to make them more fun and to better stick in your child's mind. Take a big, complicated concept and break it down into bite-sized pieces, scaled to whatever each child can handle… and enjoy!
Parents will find that the miniature lessons are about playing first (in an educational way), and the learning is just a powerful, positive side effect. Featuring 365 lessons throughout the book, with topics as wide ranging as dinosaurs, the Middle Ages, art, the natural world, and outer space, Empower Your Kids is an indispensable resource for families wanting to learn and have fun at the same time.
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A brilliant, clear, and accessible book. A true syllabus for play, from a professor who knows his material, his children, and how to have fun! -- Carla Horwitz, EdD, lecturer, Yale Child Study Center, and director emerita, Calvin Hill Day Care & Kindergarten
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Professor and dad Noah Charney shows parents how to teach their kids something meaningful every day and make it fun.
Introduction
1. The Lesson Game Approach
2. Your Utility Belt
3. Empowering Parents
4. The Lesson Game in Practice
5. The Role of Screens in Learning
6. The Power of Slowness and Boredom
7. Empowering Grandparents
8. Cultures of Education: Lessons from Abroad
9. The Superpower Menu
Suggested Further Reading
Index
About the Author
Noah Charney, PhD, is the internationally best-selling author of more than thirty books, translated into fourteen languages, including The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art, which was nominated for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. He is a professor of art history and teaches for The Smithsonian, the National Gallery UK, and Yale University online. He has written for major magazines and newspapers such as The Guardian and the Washington Post and is an award-winning podcast host. He lives in Slovenia.
