The Idle Parent: Why Less Means More When Raising Kids (29 page)
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Authors: Tom Hodgkinson
pets
see
animals
Plato
88
,
188
on books
196
Republic
23
playing/play
16
,
55
,
58–9
,
124–6
,
131–7
,
213
,
216
,
217
adult influence on
89
board games
187
childcare as
6–7
,
26
,
161–2
,
163
creative play
79–80
,
132
electronic games
40
,
42
,
167–8
,
220
;
see also
computers/Internet
face-pulling
185
importance of
29
,
35
,
115–16
,
121
,
175–6
,
215–16
,
219–20
John Locke on
82–3
organized activities
89
,
113–18
sofa games
125
sports/physical games
16
,
75
,
89
,
115–17
toys
16
,
20
,
41
,
77–84
woodwork
160
,
165–6
167
,
168–9
work as
11–12
,
163–5
,
188–9
wrestling
125–6
,
220
see also
outside activities
ponies/horses
156–7
Postman, Neil
The Disappearance of Childhood
88
,
89–90
Potter, Beatrix
208–9
prudishness
120–21
Pullman, Philip
162
,
210–11
,
217–18
Puritanism
20–21
,
20
,
40
,
51
,
53
,
105
,
106
,
118–19
Rackham, Arthur
204
reading/books
61–2
,
63
,
194–212
for adults
94
,
97
,
133
,
211–12
fairy tales
203–4
,
209–11
good/bad books
194–7
illustrations
200
,
204
Plato on
196
poetry
196
,
198–9
,
200
,
206–7
as propaganda
197
,
198
recommended authors/titles
198–212
reference books
214
Rousseau on
195–6
,
201–2
stories from memory
210–11
talking books
210
religion, music/dance in
105–6
Rough Music
192
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
3
,
6–7
on books
195–6
,
201–2
on craftsmen
166
,
169
on discipline
13
,
18–19
Emile
7–8
,
9
,
11–12
,
16
,
21
,
29
,
30–31
,
39
,
41–2
,
48
,
50
,
51
,
68
,
74
,
182
on gardening
11
on motherhood
27–8
on saying ‘no’
18–19
on toys
80
routine(s)
15–16
,
17
,
182
,
183
,
185–6
bedtime
92
,
93–4
Russell, Bertrand
65
,
76
‘Freedom Versus Authority in Education’
193
school
see
education/school
selfishness
9–10
self-sufficiency
4
,
5–6
education and
71
for children
2–5
,
8–9
,
12
,
14–15
,
32
,
48
,
67–8
,
95
,
115
for parents
5
,
6
teaching of skills
65
,
75
Sendak, Maurice
Where the Wild Things Are
117
sex education
154
singing
10–11
,
103
,
108–9
,
111
,
112
wassailing
191–2
see also
music/dance
sleep
32
,
34
,
35–6
bedtime
93–4
co-sleeping
92
,
96–7
,
101–2
,
137
lying-in
94–5
napping
91
,
96–100
routines for
92
sleep deprivation, in parents
91–3
,
96
,
97–8
,
101
social life
see
friends/friendship
sports/physical games
16
,
75
,
115–17
adult supervision of
89
,
11
,
117
John Locke on
116–17
swimming
116–17
team sports
116
,
166
see also
playing/play
Stallybrass, Peter
106
state schools
64–5
,
70
,
73–6
,
120
,
174
stress, in adults
17–18
sleep deprivation and
91–3
,
96
,
97–8
,
101
Sufism
105
Summerhill School
see
Neill, A. S.
table manners
138
,
139
,
140–41
,
144–5
see also
manners
;
mealtimes
Tao Te Ching
29
teachers
71–2
,
73–5
,
76
see also
education/school
technological advances
88
see also
computers/Internet
teenagers
see
adolescents
television
213–14
,
216
advertising on
82
,
86
,
88–9
,
181
,
215
,
218
banning/rationing of
85–90
DVDs/videos
89
,
90
educational programmes
87
Tenniel, John
200
Thiel, Peter
168
Thompson, E. P.
192
Thompson, Flora
Lark Rise to Candleford
216
,
217
,
221
Thousand and One Nights, The
209–10
Total Liberty
70–71
toys
77–84
advertising/marketing of
81–2
commercial
16
,
20
,
41
home-made
80
,
81
,
84
,
160
medieval
84
plastic
77
,
78–9
,
83
Rousseau on
80
wooden
84
,
167
see also
playing/play
treehouses
167
Trilling, Lionel
51
Tuan, Yi-Fu
51
walking/walks
183–4
Warne, Frederick
209
Waugh, Auberon
87
Wesley, John
119
Wesley, Susanna
20
Westminster school
71–2
whingeing adults
170–79
whining children
5
,
13–22
,
32
,
54
,
138
causes of
14
,
128
,
172–3
preventative measures
5
,
14
,
15–22
White, Allon
106
Wilde, Oscar
205
Woodcraft Folk
125
words/language
180
,
181
,
182
,
184
,
185
,
218
conversation
144–6
work
adult employment
17–18
,
25
,
92
,
96
,
97
,
163
John Locke on
164–6
as play
11–12
,
163–5
,
188–9
working mothers
6
,
25–6
,
27
,
34–5
,
36–7
working together
4–5
,
10
see also
child labour
Yequana Indians (South America)
161–2
,
163–4
,
167
,
176–8
,
216
,
226–7
