Calm Down & Play: Activities to Help Impulsive Children [Paperback]

Loretta Oleck Berger (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 11, 2003

Ages 5 - 12. This book is filled with fun and effective activities to help children calm down and control impulses, focus, concentrate and organize their thoughts, identify and verbalize feelings, channel and release excess energy appropriately, and build self-esteem and confidence. Most of the activities take no more than 10 minutes and can be played just about anywhere-
while a child is waiting on line, riding in a car, or even getting ready for bed.

Product Details

• Paperback: 76 pages
• Publisher: Childswork/Childsplay (April 11, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1588150550
• ISBN-13: 978-1588150554
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #116,026 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #9 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Personal Health > Children's Health > Learning Disorders
  • #44 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Disorders & Diseases > Attention Deficit Disorder

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT for Therapist, parents, and teachers working with kids with ADHD, August 8, 2008

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zoineos (Northern California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Calm Down & Play: Activities to Help Impulsive Children (Paperback)

This workbook is full of helpful exercises. As a therapist i found that my young clients really enjoyed and learned from the exercises. Great for working with impulse control issues.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun activities, March 15, 2011

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E's real person review "E." (Maryland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Calm Down & Play: Activities to Help Impulsive Children (Paperback)

I am not a therapist, just a mother to an active boy, so I'm not sure these activities are providing any therapeutic changes in my son's behavior, but they are fun and interesting. He really likes doing them and he is using brainpower, for example, one we played recently was a game to increase "stop and think" kind of actions where you make a "scavenger hunt" list of items in the close environment - in the room or house and the child has to retrieve the items and bring them to a designated spot, the caveat is that he must bring them in the order of the list and cannot get the next item until he brings the previous item to the spot, at first he was messing it all up, then got really good and knowing what he needed to do now and then next and next. I think it's a really good book for children who are "spirited" or have ADHD-type behaviors.