The Creative Family: How to Encourage Imagination and Nurture Family Connections | 
 enlarge | Author: Amanda Blake Soule
Publisher: Trumpeter
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 898
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
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Product Description
When you learn to awaken your family’s creativity, wonderful things will happen: you’ll make meaningful connections with your children in large and small ways; your children will more often engage in their own creative discoveries; and your family will embrace new ways to relax, play, and grow together. With just the simple tools around you—your imagination, basic art supplies, household objects, and natural materials—you can transform your family life, and have so much more fun!
Amanda Soule has charmed many with her tales of creativity and parenting on her blog, SouleMama. Here she shares ideas and projects with the same warm tone and down-to-earth voice. Perfect for all families, the wide range of projects presented here offers ideas for imaginative play, art and crafts, nature explorations, and family celebrations.
This book embraces a whole new way of living that will engage your children’s imagination, celebrate their achievements, and help you to express love and gratitude for each other as a family.
To learn more about the author, Amanda Soule, visit her blog at www.SouleMama.com.
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 Help For the Existential Terror of Being Home with Children July 26, 2008
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.
 Didn't love it July 11, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Do yourself a favor and check out her website before you order this book. If you like the sugesstions and tips she has there then you'll probably enjoy the book. I found it to be way too simplistic. She repeats a mantra of our ancestors being naturally creative because they had to, be creative and your children will be.... Just not what I was looking for.
 This truly is a FIVE ***** Star book! July 3, 2008
I was skeptical about this being a five star book. I am way too busy to think about the tedious creative activities for my kids. This is such a great book. She makes so many valid points and suggestions. I wish I could live up to the bar she has set. Its just not me. But I can still learn alot from her and use many of her ideas to help create a more creative family. I felt like a girlfriend was telling me about what she did with her kids. She seems so real and its a delightful book to read.
Wonderful! June 13, 2008
I absolutely loved this book and am currently rereading it. It is full of so many wonderful, simple ideas for children and families. I like the idea of simplicity and less is more. It has been a very inspirational book for me and we have already put into practice several of the ideas from the book!
Soule's Enthusiasm is inspiring June 10, 2008
I read this book pretty much cover to cover the day I got it. Amanda obviously loves being a Mom and her passion for creating shines through while reading this book. The craft projects she provides instructions for are not groundbreaking but they are great starting points to get you thinking. I really enjoyed the last two sections in the book that focused more on how to make the most out of the time you spend with your family. She has some great suggestions for family traditions and exploring nature with your children.
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