Go Play!: Eight Saturdays of Screen Free Play for Kids

Six p.m. on a Saturday in July. The streetlights come on. The street is empty.Where did all the kids go?From Jonathan Grant-Wether - author of THE SOCCER EQ, THE SUMMER OF US, and HOME SKILLS FOR KIDS - comes Book Four of THE INVISIBLE GAME SERIES: GO PLAY - A Summer Challenge to Grow Your Kid's Radius.Eight Saturdays. Eight Rings. The neighborhood your kid never met.Your kid lives at the center of an entire neighborhood they have never claimed. A block they have never walked. A friend they have never knocked on. A porch they have never sat on. The neighborhood didn't disappear. It just stopped being met.This book is the eight-Saturday plan to meet it.The Eight Rings: - Ring 1 - The Yard. The kid claims their own outside space.- Ring 2 - The Sidewalk. The first thirty feet beyond the door, walked alone.- Ring 3 - The Block. Every house mapped. Every neighbor named.- Ring 4 - A Specific Door. The kid knocks. The kid asks.- Ring 5 - The Familiar Spot. A place beyond the block where another adult is on premises and aware.- Ring 6 - The Crew. Three or more kids. Same place. Same time. Every week.- Ring 7 - The Long Loop. A multi-stop walking route the kid plans and executes.- Ring 8 - The Host. The kid invites people in.Capstone: The Map. The kid draws their summer's radius and the friends inside it. The adult signs it. The map goes on the fridge.Built for the families you actually have: - APARTMENT MODE - renters get a real version of every Saturday.- LONG-DISTANCE MODE - grandparents and kids in different cities can still run the challenge.- SHORT-ON-MONEY MODE - every Saturday costs zero dollars except occasional bus fare.- QUIET KID OR ANXIOUS KID MODE - the book waits. Progress can stall. Progress can reverse. That's the book working, not failing.Scored like a game your kid already plays. Each Saturday earns XP. At the end of summer, you and the kid earn a real Friendship Tier: NEW KID → REGULAR → HOST → MAYOR.For: Parents. Grandparents. Step-parents. Aunts and uncles raising a kid. Foster parents. Godparents. The neighbor a kid calls family. If a kid in your orbit calls you the older one they trust - this book is yours. Recommended for kids ages 8 and up, with adult supervision.For every parent at the window at six p.m., wondering where all the kids went.Open the book. Put the phones in a drawer. Send them outside.

Pagina's: 81, Paperback, Independently published