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I am looking forward to doing some of the things in the book with my grandson. I was pleased with the condition of the book and the speed of delivery.
I think it's great and well worth every penny. You'll have to buy it to see what I mean.This book is an excellent way to get your son off the computer and your husband away from the TV. Instructions for different types of games (inside and out), history facts, scientific notes, things I had forgotten all about over the years.
old grandson & his dad to share. This book is fantastic, I know they'll all enjoy it over and over again.Today's world is filled with so much technology that the more simple things of yesterday's childhood have been forgotten. I originally bought this for my 7 yr.
In this book are diagrams of how to make paper hats, knots, all sorts of things. My son-in-law was totally interested but my grandson not so much.yet.
After looking through it, I ordered another for my son to share with his son.
Back to the basics kind of thing where the kid is responsible to make things happen. Great for a kid who has a lot of neat toys, but tends to not play with them. Great answer to the "I'm bored, there is nothing to do." question. Given as Christmas gift to nine year old. He loved it and learned a lot of neat stuff.
This book is about basic cultural knowledge and basic practical ability--the things kids ought to be learning.I recommend the book unequivocally, but I'd add one recommendation to that: dads, moms, whoever buys this book. For me, it's a lot more about getting outside, into the world, and working with your hands--virtues which, for me, came from both my mother and father.As I grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, my mother provided me with a lot of craft books that had everything from woodworking to stitching of leather gloves to building tree forts and the like. So, if I might differ with other fans of the book, this isn't about seizing masculinity back for our children or fulfilling Man's God-given authority. This book isn't about the conservative-liberal divide.
The closest it got to electricity was making your own battery out of lemons or potatoes. They aren't girls, were never girls, and so they didn't speak to what girls needed to know. That does not mean that the book can't be enjoyed by girls, or that girls are somehow excluded. All the most interesting girls I knew as a boy would have liked this book, and if I have a daughter, I hope she'll read it just as my boy has. I'm surprised (if only a little) at all the culture warriors praising this book as some counter-shot to feminism or political correctness. A lot of men can't find (or re-find) their sense of masculinity without bashing women. Sadly, these books had vanished, and a lot of the stuff that was present was tied into this or that franchise or marketing campaign or pre-teen craze. Neither of us would call ourselves "traditional" or "conservative" the way most Americans mean either of these terms.
And we're both pro-feminist, with nonconventional religious beliefs. Read it yourself. A great book for almost anyone: I can not praise it highly enough. And then you can be all the more prepared to discuss it with your kids.And as I heard one of the authors say in an interview, this book is about what they thought boys needed to know. As a man in my twenties, maybe I'm just old-fashioned. Odds are, like me, you'll learn something.
All of that, for me, is beside the point. That's rather silly, and it's a bit of projection. I was able to explore as a child, and both my wife and I had been scouts; our son, we decided, would not be nannied by the television set.This book, fortunately, came along. And as I attended my father on some of his walks around the farm (where we briefly lived before joining suburbia) or on his hunts, I got an education in the natural world.When I had my son, we didn't have a lot of the same scenery or the books any longer, so I looked around for those books that seemed so popular in the 1960s and 1970s (at least judging from my parents' bookshelf), books that showed a kid how to interact with his or her world in any number of ways. I wanted my son's childhood to be at least a little dirty, a little physical, a little mysterious.
You may start any where in the book and come back to it many times. Well written and not a book that must be read from beginning to end. Highly recommend. This is one of the best books I've read regarding the reals issues of being human. Any boy (girl) will enjoy the topics from collecting buys to building rocket ships or gardening.
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