Playborhood
by Mike Lanza · first published 2012
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In Playborhood : Turn Your Neighborhood Into a Place for Play, you'll find inspiring stories of innovative communities throughout the US and Canada that have successfully created vibrant neighborhood play lives for their children. You'll also get a comprehensive set of step-by-step solutions to change your family and neighborhood cultures, so that your kids can spend less time in front of screens and in adult-supervised activities, and more time engaging in joyful neighborhood play.
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Parents looking for screen alternatives: Check out the book "Playborhood" by Mike Lanza. His neighborhood had no kids playing outside, so his kids didn't want to play outside. He did something about it, and he tells us how to do the same where we live. https://playborhood.com/
on “Children, left behind by suburbia, need better community design” ↗I wrote a book advising parents how to give kids a life of independent neighborhood play. Check out Playborhood - http://playborhood.com In a nutshell, I contend that this is a social problem of neighborhood culture, and parents should work to make their neighborhoods as fun and inviting as video games and the…
on “Alarming Decline of Quality Youth Playtime” ↗Seconding this recommendation. The idea of solving this issue at a societal level is really daunting, but Playborhood was an empowering read as a parent. It makes the case that, at least for your children and your (hyper-local) neighborhood, you can create conditions that significantly change your kid's childhood (and…
on “Children, left behind by suburbia, need better community design” ↗Playborhood, by Mike Lanza, describes a related endeavor to transform one's yard into an inviting area for neighborhood kids. My wife and I have been discussing this quite a lot lately. How do we bring back neighborhood…
on “Los Angeles Tests the Power of ‘Play Streets’” ↗