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    Growing up Is Optional: Rediscover the Joy of Play
    Growing up Is Optional: Rediscover the Joy of Play
    Growing up Is Optional: Rediscover the Joy of Play
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    Growing up Is Optional: Rediscover the Joy of Play

    By Gail Moore

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    Why is it that no matter how old someone is, they always feel much younger inside? Is there a part of us that never grows up? Have you ever had the urge to play the games you used to when you were a child just for the fun of it? What stops you from releasing your inner child?

    Growing Up Is Optional seeks to help bring back those childhood memories of games played and fun had in a spontaneous and joyful way. You can rediscover the joy of play and all the benefits this will bring:
    Learn.
    Create.
    Feel challenged.
    Relax.
    Calm and focus yourself.
    Improve your health and fitness.
    Build and improve relationships.
    Laugh and have fun.

    Play is essential to leading a happy, healthy, and fulfilling life, and you can benefit from it! Growing Up Is Optional sets out ideas and prompts for fun games and activities that are either low-cost or free and can be done by anyone, anywhere.

    When did it become more important to stay longer at the office, clean the house, or watch TV than to go outside and feel the sun or rain on your face? Growing up is optional and you can choose not togo on, I dare you!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBalboa Press
    Release dateFeb 25, 2014
    ISBN9781452592299
    Growing up Is Optional: Rediscover the Joy of Play
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    Gail Moore

    Gail Moore lives with her husband, three children, and dog in a small village on the Northumberland coast.

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      Growing up Is Optional - Gail Moore

      Copyright © 2014 Gail Moore.

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      The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4525-9228-2 (sc)

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      Balboa Press rev. date: 02/19/2014

      Contents

      Dedication

      Tell some jokes

      Throw stones in the water

      Pooh Sticks

      Bake a cake

      Icing biscuits

      Design your own pizza

      Shrink crisp packets

      Bed-time story

      Read a fairy tale

      Go out in the rain

      Scare yourself

      Play hide and seek in the dark

      Play cards

      Play a board game

      Watch cartoons

      Make a vision board

      Dance

      Doodle

      Join a club

      Jump on a trampoline

      Make a funny face

      Go on an adventure

      Do a headstand

      Do a roly-poly

      Move your body

      Skip around the house

      Chalk on the pavement

      Hop

      Skipping rope

      Jump over the cracks in the pavement

      Get someone to play with your hair

      Fly a kite

      Pretend

      Sing

      Play a musical instrument

      Be naughty

      Go to the seaside

      Go for a bike ride

      Give yourself pocket money

      Piggy bank

      Go on a picnic

      Have a tea party

      Paint a picture

      Colouring-in

      Play kissy catch

      Have a (fun) fight

      Have a nap

      Cover yourself in mud

      Buy a pick and mix

      Go to the ice-cream van

      Go to the playpark

      Buy a toy

      Have a water pistol fight

      Look at the stars

      Climb a tree

      Climb a hill

      Run down a hill

      Grow a plant from seed

      Rock, paper, scissors

      Bubbles

      Make a den

      Play sevensies

      Play with a yo-yo

      Puzzles

      Do a magic trick

      Watch the clouds

      Go to the swimming pool

      Cuddle

      Have a sleepover

      Make a daisy chain

      Go to the funfair

      Send yourself to your room

      Ask questions

      Have a reward chart

      Have a role model

      Love yourself unconditionally

      Make friends

      Paper fortune teller

      Befriend a pet

      Day out

      Tidy your room

      Write a letter

      Keep a diary

      Dedication

      To Phil, my wonderful, loving, supportive husband and best friend.

      Our children Kirsty, Iain and Liam who light up our lives and go along with all our mad ideas, even though they think we are crazy!

      I love you all.

      But I don’t want to go among mad people, Alice remarked.

      Oh, you can’t help that, said the Cat: we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.

      How do you know I’m mad? said Alice.

      You must be, said the Cat, or you wouldn’t have come here."

      - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.

      Once upon a time you were open to everything.

      There was so much to see and explore.

      You believed you could be and do anything you wanted.

      When being brave and fearless was what you would do in a typical day.

      You didn’t need anyone to tell you how wonderful and perfect you were because you knew it already.

      Remember when your big brother was your hero and you wanted to protect your little sister. A thunderstorm wasn’t going to spoil your day but made it more exciting. You didn’t have an agenda and just played for the sake of playing. You had the biggest fight in the world but a short time later were friends again.

      How you jumped out of bed in the morning, excited for the day ahead. You loved unconditionally and didn’t make judgments about people but just accepted them the way they were.

      That childlike state is your natural state.

      Confident, sure of your abilities, not afraid of failing because you know with practice and determination you’ll get it right, adventurous and willing to embrace new experiences, fun loving and full of energy.

      Keeping that childlike state is the fountain of youth.

      You look and feel younger when you have a zest for life. A happy personality, nice smile and twinkle in your eye can take years of you and as research shows help you to live longer.

      You are also more able to deal with any of life’s challenges when you have a happier outlook as you have a different perspective on difficult situations when you’re in a good mood compared to a bad mood.

      Don’t you just feel how your energy levels lower as you think of boring things and rise as you think of fun and happy things?

      All work and no play makes Jack a very dull boy.

      - proverb

      You didn’t come to this life to sit on your bum, you came for the

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