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Rewilding Childhood

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Rewilding Childhood by Mike Fairclough invites parents to nurture their children's natural rebellious spirit as a path to empowerment. The book offers practical exercises and advice on encouraging risk-taking, creativity, and connection with nature, aiming to build children's confidence and resilience in an unpredictable world. From climbing trees to messy play, Fairclough presents a transformative approach to parenting that celebrates freedom and imagination, preparing children for a joyful and self-assured future.
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This book is ideal for parents and caregivers seeking empowering, nature-based approaches to parenting, as well as those interested in fostering creativity and resilience in children.

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Mike Fairclough invites parents to facilitate their children's naturally rebellious nature to help them thrive in a turbulent world.

Discover the revolutionary path to incredible parenting and embrace your child's free spirit, inspire their imagination and prepare them for a confident, empowered future. Foreword by Dame Jacqueline Wilson.

This isn't your average parenting book. This is a call for rebellion—a liberating, transformative, joyful rebellion, proven to encourage confidence and resilience in children.

Rewilding Childhood offers game-changing tools and techniques to help you raise empowered children who will thrive in this unpredictable world. You'll find out how encouraging your child to climb trees or get muddy instils a healthy attitude to risk; adventuring into fields and forests cultivates gratitude; and getting messy with a paintbrush can liberate them and elevate their confidence.

Renowned headmaster and father-of-four Mike Fairclough's trailblazing book includes:

  • practical, liberating exercises to explore freedom and creativity with your child
  • advice on how to set non-restrictive goals and positive intentions
  • examples of how play and games can improve problem-solving and enhance imagination
  • tips on how to encourage your child to reconnect with nature, from looking under stones for insects to observing the changing seasons

Encouraging children to explore and reconnect with their adventurous side is more important than ever. Full of down-to-earth advice, honesty, and positivity, this book will encourage both you and your child to move beyond the boundaries of everyday life to become self-assured, secure and, above all, happy.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781401971625

Publisher: Hay House Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 August 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Hay House Inc

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 214.0mm

Weight: 241g

Pages: 224

About the Author

Mike Fairclough is the Headmaster of West Rise Junior School in East Sussex and author of Wild Thing and Playing with Fire. His initiatives at the school have received national and international acclaim. www.mikefairclough.squarespace.com

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