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| The Creative Family: How to Encourage Imagination and Nurture Family Connections | 
 enlarge | Author: Amanda Blake Soule
Publisher: Trumpeter
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
Buy New: $8.43
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Avg. Customer Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 1523
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 6.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 1590304713
Dewey Decimal Number: 745.5
EAN: 9781590304716
ASIN: 1590304713
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 The idea book you're looking for! April 4, 2008
14 out of 18 found this review helpful
This book is a keeper! I don't buy books often but this is one that will be well loved on my bookshelf. Amanda's ideas and writings are inspring and creative. This is not your average craft book, but a jumping point into a whole world of creative ideas. These are ideas I can start with my two-year old but will grow with us for years and years to come. A must have for anyone wanting to bring more creativity and quality time to their family. Stay at Home, moms this will definitely inspire you in the ho-hum of everyday life.
wishing every parent could have this book April 7, 2008
14 out of 17 found this review helpful
I was excited to receive an advance copy of Amanda Soule's new book. The Creative Family is her sweetly inspiring collection of projects, ideas and thoughts on family life at home. Home with little ones- precious, curious children just beginning their own creative adventures. Like her blog, the book is a clever handbook of the ways that a family can simply play and learn together, enriching each other's creativity with imagination and invention.
I am loving this little book- small enough that it sits perfectly on top of the stack here. It is beautifully designed and easy to dip into, though harder to put down. Most of all, I love the way that Amanda's parenting style fills their lives with creative discovery. Children are natural teachers too, their gentle ways instilling respect and affection for siblings, a calmer pace for the household. I like the accessible crafts that the family has created- sewn, built, mixed from simple materials and resources. Handmade knitting needles (how cool!), art-on-the-go bags, a banging wall from kitchen pots and pans. Rituals, traditions, parlor games, all within budget, without commercially marketed products. Fabulous, thrifty, home-made fun.
You know how you hear people jokingly say over the heads of their children, Where's the owner's manual? I think it's here, in the pages of thoughtful books like Amanda's. This wonderful book reminds us that there is no better, or more natural way to nurture our children- and ourselves- than with our own enthusiasm, patience, care and creativity.
A Gem April 6, 2008
11 out of 16 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful book. It radiates love and inspiration. I just can't wait to begin following some of of her many fabulous suggestions. Do you and your family a favor and buy this great book ASAP.
As it should be! April 7, 2008
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
I preordered this book last year and literally cried when I finished it. Its is beautiful. Simply. This is the parenting book I have always wanted. Like its title, it focuses on family creativity which allows for the closeness we all desire. Her projects are easy, no fuss and beautiful.
I recommend this book to everyone who is a parent or is becoming one.
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 Help For the Existential Terror of Being Home with Children July 26, 2008
11 out of 18 found this review helpful
Interesting in this book is the implicit idea that domestic creativity is not a mother's sublimated or repressed need to create--think back to those childhood cliches of the mom who could have been a stockbroker or physician--instead pouring her energies into a jealously-guarded sewing room--but rather a way of being present in the moment with children, a kind of abundant ever-expanding consciousness: the more I give, the more I have. Unintentionally, this snapshot of a joyful, spiritual labor becomes a critique of the patriarchal work-ethic unseen since Mary Shelley or her mother.
I remain ambivalent yet sympathetic toward all things Waldorf. Everything depends on temperament, and my colicky babies, who became intense, high-energy children engendering a chaotic homelife, insure that needlepointing has no chance of putting down roots here. It gives me pause to consider the difference between the darker and more discordant creative energies of the eminent artist and the crafting of the creative homemaker. My children burn through things, and the last time we glued with beans and rice, it exacerbated our ant problem; I buy Prismacolors and they end up cracked and ground into the floor; I simply cannot imagine finding time to cut stencils or teach my 5-year-old to finger-knit. So, I read this in an arm-chair way, while nursing the toddler, and it supported me in feeling the greatness of my undertaking in a culture that devalues the domestic.
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