Parents with Bored Children Epidemic is Sweeping the Nation New book helps children stay busy and keeps parents sane

It happens every summer, parents must decide on activities for their children to ward off the ever-so-frightening, Parents with Bored Children syndrome. Will it be summer camp or swimming lessons; playground visits or animated movies? Parents can find help planning their childrens summer activities thanks to the new book, The Arts and Crafts Busy Book (Meadowbrook Press).

It happens every summer, parents must decide on activities for their children to ward off the ever-so-frightening, Parents with Bored Children syndrome. Will it be summer camp or swimming lessons; playground visits or animated movies?

Parents can find help planning their childrens summer activities thanks to the new book, The Arts and Crafts Busy Book (Meadowbrook Press). Filled with activities that help children explore and express their creativity through arts and crafts, the book is the best prescription for bored children everywhere.

Written by Trish Kuffner, The Arts and Crafts Busy Book offers step-by-step instructions of easy activities for children that are constructive and cost effective.

While arts and crafts projects can be expensive, messy, complicated and time-consuming, they need not be so," said Kuffner. Projects that use basic supplies, that are simple and quick, and that let the child explore and create with minimal supervision and intervention can be rewarding for both adults and children."

Parents and children can explore a wide variety of arts and crafts activities with different mediums including drawing, coloring, printmaking and Papier-Mậché. The book also includes chapters on edible, educational and holiday arts and crafts.

The Arts and Crafts Busy Book retails for $9.95 and is available at bookstores nationwide on May 27. The book may also be purchased online at www.meadowbrookpress.com.

Founded in 1975, Meadowbrook Press is one of the leading publishers of parenting and childcare books in North America. The company is the number one publisher of baby name books in the country, with eight books totaling over seven million copies sold. Meadowbrook Press also has growing lines of humorous poetry, fiction anthologies, gift, activity, party and humor books. For more information, visit www.meadowbrookpress.com.

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