Reddit reviews How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself: A Timeless Activity Guide to Self-Reliant Play and Joyful Solitude
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I love this review on the Amazon page:
"It's what you'd get if you crossed the Boy Scout Handbook with The Anarchist's Cookbook, and it's definitely the wildest how-to manual I've seen this year."
—Greg Cowles, The New York Times Paper Cuts blog
Sure:
How old are your kids? Mine are young (4/6) so it's easy to put a set limit on screen time... most days an hour is the max, but we're not too rigid. If they're not in front of a screen, they just seem to keep themselves active.
When I was a kid, my mom (and all of my neighbor friend's moms) would just scream at us to "get out of the house!!!" That seemed to work for us.
I had once seen a redditor recommend these two books on childhood (I think they're pretty cool... probably more about being busy than actually active though):
http://www.amazon.com/Where-Did-Out-What-Nothing/dp/0393339416/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344132013&sr=8-1&keywords=where+did+you+go+out.+what+did+you+do+nothing
http://www.amazon.com/How-Nothing-Nobody-Alone-Yourself/dp/0982053959/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1
How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself (for parenting)
It's for kids, but so what. How to do nothing....
I counter this suggestion with How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself. It was written in the fifties buy a guy that grew up in the twenties and is absolutely delightful. First of all it's not for boys or girls, it's addressed to "kids". Everything in it is free (assuming the kid has a pen knife) and can be done alone minus adult supervision and I love how the author recommends going to the library to learn more several times throughout the book.
It does have some funny anachronisms though, all dads smoke and all moms sew, ect. But on the whole it's stood up to time very well.
I haven't read this Boy Scout book, but I have read both The Dangerous Book For Boys and The Daring Book For Girls and this book it better than both of those.
My kids are younger, but when I was a kid and bugging my parents to play with me, they handed me this book, How to nothing with nobody all alone by yourself.