Time to Play!

It is April 1st and it is time to kick-off the PhD in Parenting Carnival of Play (announced previously in this post). From April 1st to April 15th extended to April 20, the content on my blog is going to be dedicated to play. I hope this will be a fun and inspiring half month for everyone. I hope to give you an understanding of the importance of play and also share lots of fun play ideas.

See full recap of all Carnival of Play posts here!

Here is what is planned:

• Thoughts and Ideas About Play


• Book Reviews


• Product Reviews


• Research on playing


• Fun playtime activities


• Contest


• ….and your posts!

On those last few items, a few more details...

Your Posts

One of the great things about a carnival is getting to share ideas and explore each other's blogs. When I announced the carnival I mentioned that I would be looking for other people to write posts about play for the carnival.

Here are the details for those that are participating:

• Write a post on anything to do with play and its role in parenting and/or childhood


• Post it on your blog (or if you don't have a blog e-mail it to me and I'll post it here as a guest post) between April 1st and April 14, 2009


• Include a link back to this post in your post and tell your readers that you are writing it as part of the PhD in Parenting Carnival of Play

Every few days during the carnival, I will then put up a post featuring (summarizing/commenting on) the posts that you have written and linking to them so that my readers can go to your blog to read the full thing and hopefully get to know your blog a bit better.

Contest

What would a Carnival of Play be without a bit of play for us adults? One of the books I will be reviewing during my Carnival of Play is Play by Stuart Brown, M.D. and the publisher has kindly donated 3 copies of the book for me to give away to my readers.  So, I am going to randomly pick a winner for each of the following 3 tasks:

1. People that write posts for the carnival: If you write a post for the carnival (as per the instructions above), your name will be included in the draw for the first copy of the book.


2. People that link to one of the posts in the carnival: If you link to any of the posts that I put up during the carnival, your name will be included in the draw for the second copy of the book. Usually I see pingbacks to my posts, but sometimes they don't register for whatever reason. Feel free to drop a comment on the post that you linked to letting me know that you linked to it (to be sure that I see your post).


3. People that send me great links to include in the carnival: I'm still looking for more great stuff about play to link to and blog about during the carnival and you can help! Go out there in the World Wide Web and find some great blog posts, articles, research studies, or other content about play and send me an e-mail with (a) the link to the article/post and (b) a link to your blog if you have one (I'll give you credit for finding it if I link to it). My e-mail address is phdinparenting at gmail dot com. Everyone that sends me a link gets entered in the draw for the third copy of the book.

I look forward to playing along with you all! :)

Photo credit: I Nancy on flickr

Comments

[Rebecca @bitofmomsense]

Got another post to add! Are we too over-protective now and taking the fun out of play?
http://alittlebitofmomsense.blogspot.com/2009/04/is-overprotection-changing-play.html

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[Krista]

Good thing you extended the time limit on this :) Here is part 1 of my contribution. http://typical-ramblings.blogspot.com/2009/04/play-with-me-part-1.html It's about Play from Birth to 6 months. More to follow.

[Trish]

A reader commented on my post and had a link to here. If you think it is interesting, it would be great to see it in your carninval of play. Thanks. http://www.preschoolplaybook.com/2009/04/importance-of-playing.html

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I am a relatively new blogger on parenting topics. I found your blog and contest from http://growinginpeace.wordpress.com/. And I couldn't resist :) Here is my contribution - http://teachingyoungchildren.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/play-is-fundamental/

[Krista]

Part 2 on my series Play from birth to 2yrs. http://typical-ramblings.blogspot.com/2009/04/play-with-me-part-2.html

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[phdinparenting]

The contest winners were drawn and have been contacted. The lucky winners were:

Rebecca from http://alittlebitofmomsense.blogspot.com/
Lynn from http://infantbibliophile.blogspot.com/
KC from http://growinginpeace.wordpress.com/

Congratulations to all of you and thank you to everyone that contributed to the carnival!

[andrea from the fishbowl]

This was a really good series! Glad you tackled this great topic.

[KC]

This was an awesome series. I've never had so much fun and I've never won anything before, so that makes it all the more special for me!

Thanks.

[KC]

I received my book today and I'm so excited to read it! Thanks so much!

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