Play Therapy Activities: 150 Fun Activities For Parents and Children to Play to Improve Emotional Stability and Bonding Paperback – 4 Oct. 2022

I’m struggling to understand the 5* reviews. It’s full of mistakes and poorly written. Unbelievably repetitive. The fonts and layout is all over the place. At one point I was literally laughing to myself as to how on earth this got good reviews and I’d paid money for it.A couple of examples of the weird repetitive text:“one of the most common screen addiction problems is children’s screen addiction. It can be a problem because screens can be very addicting and have negative consequences….”During a chapter on self control:“Your children must be safe when on vacation, especially if they are new to travel. Make sure to keep them watered and fed, provide safe, fun activities to participate in (like roller skating or hiking), and stay close enough to monitor their health status - but far sufficient absent not to be a threat.”???Strange. Found myself scratching my head on several occasions as to why things were included in the book and the irrelevant information to the particular chapter that it was in.Some of the activities are ok for toddlers; that’s about it.

I’m a little confused by previous reviews on how helpful this book is. I’m about a third of the way through and struggling to continue. The language is very repetitive almost like watching an American show that repeats and recaps every few minutes to make a ten minute show last an hour.Some parts have clearly been copied and pasted from other sources with a few words changed. For example we are given a dictionary definition of what a conversation is?! I’ve yet to actually get to any of the “150 fun activities” the few brief nondescript ideas make me feel the author has never actually played with any children. Disappointing really .

I bought this book with the hopes of a few play therapy activities to be in it. It is basically a book for parents that do not know how to interact with or talk to their children, or as the author keeps saying (kid). The writing is terrible and makes no sense in places.I would not buy it.

I was a looking forward to this book arriving to give me some ideas for use with my EYFS class. However, it barely makes sense in places. It is poorly printed on cheap paper and has obviously been badly translated form another language. Avoid

Poorly written, repetitive and full of grammatical errors. Activities aren't great either they're pretty basic and can be found online. This book is ridiculously overpriced for the quality and content. Worth about £3

This reads like it has been ‘spun’ from another source - ie rewritten using a thesaurus to replace some key words, as half of it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. That aside, it’s also seriously lacking in insights or useful advice and is a complete waste of time.

This entire book is just essentially repeating the same sentences over and over again, it gives no actual information about play therapy, building skills, and it essentially is just chapter titles and ”find activities for art/play/regulation”. I don’t know why it says there is 150 activities- there’s no actual activities to try, it just tells you to find activities and suggests you figure out exactly what kind of activity would be best without any suggestion of how to do that. Don’t buy this book - I can sum it up for you in the following sentences “play therapy is a way to build skills in your children. There are various forms of play therapy. Find play therapy activities”

I really found this book to be so helpful. My six year old granddaughter came home from school telling me about some child being made fun of. This book has activities for them to deal with life's ups and downs. It helps with promoting social skills through art. There's drawing, painting, cutting and pasting, telling stories and so much more. This book even explains how to break your Childs screen addiction, get them involved. This book allows them to develop concentration, manage their emotions, and strengthen the bond between you and your child. I enjoyed this book and I'm having fun with my granddaughter.

This book is terribly written. Much of it makes no sense at all. There are no actual tips or ideas provided. Many sentences just repeat what the heading is, without actually saying anything new or helpful. It was either translated from another language or a thesaurus was very poorly used. It talks about a Divine Bond, and not to call your child, "...a scruffy little dog" - who says that? When I read Patel's words that self-control means, "...allowing them to do their own thing without having to answer to anyone else", I knew this was not the book for me. Don't waste your money.

I am a former early childhood educator and now a stay at home mom, so I am always looking for tools to have to connect with kids. This book focuses on getting kids connected with their emotions through activities. I like that idea. Kids are not born with the tools to regulate and process emotions. This book gives parents ideas on how to help their kids develop those skills. I also appreciated that the book focused so much on building and growing the bond between parent and child. I know this book focuses on the parent-child dynamic, but I think a lot of it could apply to a teacher or caregiver and child in their care.

I seldom write reviews. However, I do have major concerns about the legitimacy of this book. Let me first explain that: 1) I have both a PhD in therapy with training and experience in play therapy, and 2) I have not read the entire book as of yet (just the fist 4 chapters). As I read more, I may update this review. However, as it stands this book is 1) poorly written (incomplete sentences, many grammatical errors, circular reasoning, no scientific research or concrete examples, etc. It seems that it may be a poor translation from another language with little care in revising for neither content nor grammar), and 2) suspicious in its credibility. For example, I cannot find much information in the book regarding who Charlotte Patel is nor of the publisher information. Further, a quick internet research for a therapist named Charlotte Patel gives no results neither on Psychology today nor on google. The only result I can find is on the Amazon Author Information which says she is a therapist. However, there is no other confirmation of this. At best, this book is poorly executed by someone with little experience. At worst, this book may be a scam???