The Outstanding Ohioans show, Episode 56-Interview with Heather Shumaker, author of "It's OK To Go Up The Slide"

This show brings the audience great things Ohioans are doing to make their communities, the state, the region, and the world a better place as entrepreneurs, leaders, historical and popular culture figures.

For episode 56, I had the pleasure of speaking with Heather Shumaker, author of It’s OK to Go UP the Slide… Renegade Rules for Raising Confident and Creative Kids & It’s OK NOT to Share… and Other Renegade Rules for Raising Competent and Compassionate Kids

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The two books that Heather Shumaker has written provide great insights and ideas on how to raise children to be responsible, creative human beings with the ability to communicate. Many of her thoughts counter the current culture of overprotective parents & practices within the school system.

Here were the topics we discussed in our conversation:

• growing up in Columbus, Ohio
• the background of her mother and father, who both recently retired as educators
• attending the School for Young Children, founded in 1969 in Columbus
• why she structured specific tools & ideas in her books that parents could use
• her two central parenting themes
• street smarts and stranger danger
• sharing
• calendars & clocks
• homework
• recess
• reading
• conflict resolution
• reading for pleasure vs. forced reading
• technology temptation
• kid evaluation/resolution vs. adult intervention
• fairness & justice
• establishing boundaries

Listeners can connect with Heather in the following ways:

• website contact information
• speaking engagements
• Renegade Rules podcast

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