The Backyard Play Revolution

By: Jason Runkel Sperling

Screen-free and outdoor play and toys to increase early-age child learning opportunities and improve happiness for the whole family. Follow one father’s entertaining and informative experiments to find play and toys that inspire his children to play outside, offline, and independently—like children of past generations.

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Book Description

In this eye opening, easy-to-follow, action-oriented book, Jason Runkel Sperling explains how to use screen-free, unstructured outdoor play and toys to increase early-age child learning opportunities and improve happiness for the whole family.

You'll learn:

• How to encourage your child to enjoy active, outdoor, screen-free play
• How to foster unstructured, child-led playtime
• The secret to making risky play work for your child
• Practical advice on how to pick the right toys and transform your backyard
• How to set up your backyard playspace and not break the bank.

Raising children today is harder than ever before, but children haven't changed all that much.

The best way to get children to develop their imagination and creativity, motor and sensory skills, emotional and social intelligence, and every other physical and mental ability, is to get them to "go outside and play" with open-ended, child-led play that can be enjoyed in the backyard. There are proven, evidence-based approaches for the role parents should take in facilitating this kind of play. And you can learn them quickly and apply them tomorrow.

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