Three books that have me impatient to get back to Playcentre
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We’re nearing the end of our summer school holidays in New Zealand. My Girl is thrilled to go back (“I’m taller! And I have a wiggly tooth!!”). The Boy, not so much. (“I can’t play Lego at school.”)
I’m absolutely impatient to go back to work. I have Big Ideas I want NEED! to try.
It’s all because of two brothers. Dan and Chip Heath, authors of three books:
Switch: How to Change Things when Change is Hard
and
The Myth of the Garage (You can download this one for free at this link)
I originally got onto these books through Jessica at Team Rasler, who blogged about what happened when she applied the ideas from “Switch” to some issues she had with her husband. I was so intrigued I ran out and got the book. Then had to get the others (AND the free resources at the HeathBrothers website.
These three books have given me ideas on how to increase our training levels at Playcentre and start a mentoring program. I’m so excited! Hopefully as I go (this will be a major work in progress) I’ll be able to blog what happens.
As Flint Lockwood says in Cloudy with a chance of meatballs: We’ve got a diem to carpe!
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Exciting! I can’t wait to hear how it goes for you. Those books really did have so many amazing examples and ideas. Thanks for the links to the free resources. I’m going to read The Myth of the Garage this week!
Excellent!
Hey thanks for that link you gave me the other week (…Fortnight…?) on working families! It was an interesting read, and so true.
I can’t wait for Playcentre to start again either, just a bummer the Lily Bug starts morning sessions at kindy shortly, which means no Mondays at Playcentre for her anymore as kindy won’t allow her to do four days a week rather than five (we’ll wag kindy in favour of Playcentre sometimes I’m sure ;))
I’ll check out that free book you posted a link to, and hope to eventually get around to reading it!
Have a great week 🙂
I really wish Kindy was more accomodating on that point. That happens to a lot of people!! Glad you liked the link! 🙂
What is Play centre, exactly?
Playcentre is a place parents and preschool children go to learn and play together. The parents learn skills and techniques that help them become a better parent (and often a better team mate and worker), and the children learn all their preschool skills and concepts. We are a parent cooperative.We’re unique to New Zealand. And through our emergent leadership program, people do amazing things. Lots of famous NZ people are Playcentre parents.
It’s still kind of weird for me to hear your summer vacation is nearly over. How is your garden doing? I’m glad you have been so inspired by these books! I’m looking forward to following your posts about implementing your goals! 🙂
My garden is full of weeds again. LOL
Thanks for the recommendations – I just put The Myth of the Garage on my Kindle 🙂 I’m going to check the other two out too!
I hope they are just as inspiring for you! 🙂
It sounds awesome. I wish we had one here!