Ping Toto. Games for children.

Dorothy,

I tried some of your calming technique games with my boys. The eldest
was very impressed thankyou. In fact he asked if I had any more games
and where I learnt them from.

They started of a little cold, I think they were suprised to see an
adult being silly. But after a few minutes we were running around
having a great time, being ludicrous.

Does anyone in the group have some suggestions?

Cheers Dom.

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Dorothy,

I tried some of your calming technique games with my boys.
The eldest was very impressed thankyou. In fact he asked
if I had any more games and where I learnt them from.

They started of a little cold, I think they were suprised
to see an adult being silly. But after a few minutes we
were running around having a great time, being ludicrous.

Does anyone in the group have some suggestions?

i would suggest The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun by Carol
Kranowitz. it's written for parents of kids with sensory
integration dysfunction, but the games & activities are fun
for any kid.
as your boys get older, you might want to look for a copy of
The Dangerous Book for Boys (and thank diety that you don't
have girls because the girly version is horribly sexist) or
BoyCraft. i don't have the authors offhand as my 7 year old
has those books off somewhere right now.
oh! and Why Would I Want The Toy, When I Can Have The Box? by
Rex Bowlby is also pretty good.
lee

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On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:05:39 -0800 (PST), Dom
wrote:

Dorothy,

I tried some of your calming technique games with my boys. The eldest
was very impressed thankyou. In fact he asked if I had any more games
and where I learnt them from.

They started of a little cold, I think they were suprised to see an
adult being silly. But after a few minutes we were running around
having a great time, being ludicrous.

Does anyone in the group have some suggestions?

Cheers Dom.

Just saw this post. Sorry so late. I will be offline starting on
Thursday as we are attending a wedding in Chicago. I won't be back
until the following Monday.

The breathing games come from Dr. Becky Bailey. Her website is he
http://www.beckybailey.com/

Her I Love You Rituals is especially fun.

There are some nice books on her website that address different
problems.

There is a book called Follow Me Too by Marianne Torbert and Lynne B.
Schneider that is available from NAEYC. It's intended for 3 to 5 year
olds in a preschool setting, but can be adapted to any group setting.
The nice thing about the book is that it has a chart that tells what
skills the game is working on.

There are lots of games for all kinds of purposes that are fun, but
many need more than one player.

http://sales.naeyc.org/frmSearch.aspx

There are calming games from Girl Scouts in a pdf file he
http://www.girlscoutsmilehi.org/cont...lmingGames.pdf

Have fun.

Let me know what things you are looking for and I can give you more
suggestions


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Dorothy

There is no sound, no cry in all the world
that can be heard unless someone listens ..

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